• A study into the pros and cons of moving
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into PSV contract-hire is being considered by managers and directors at BRS. Although the company revealed several months ago that it was studying the possibility, it is still seen as quite a risky step, approaching, as it does an entirely separate market. An announcement could be made within weeks.
• Membership of the Transport and General Workers' Union fell by just over 29,000 to 1,348,712 last year, halving the rate of decline since 1986, according to the union's annual re port.
• Richard Gabriel, chairman and managing director of parcels carrier Interlink, is featured in a publication called Improve Your Profits . . Satisfy Your Customers, along with several other notable UK entrepreneurs. The book, by Ron Sewell, stresses the importance of a "customer-driven, rather than a sales-driven, approach".
• Mother-of-two Shelley Mawson has started her own parcels company in Doncaster, with a Transit van. Mawson, 21, who has worked in the industry for three months, says: "People said I couldn't do it, but the business is going really well."