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• BOC Gases is recruiting 55 drivers at Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Wolverhampton, Thome and Fawley, Hants, which will take on extra work when its Widnes depot doses in the new year making 76 staff redundant.
• Parcelforce plunged £28m into the red For the half year to 25 September 1994—£11m worse than the same period last year. But the figures show a £21m improvement when a £1 5m restructuring charge is deducted.
• Central Transport Rental Group, formally Tiphook, has reduced its pre-tax losses from £179m to 27.2m for the six months to 31. October. Turnover dropped 25.8m to £67.6m.
• A driver was kidnaoned and bundled into the boot of a car after he was pulled over on the Al 20 outside Harwich docks by men dressed as policemen. The truck was later recovered without its £500,000 load of stereo equipment.
• Ryder has acquired logistical distributors Systemline and Systemcare from Federal Express Europe. The Iwo firms had a combined turnover of £37.9m for the year to May 1994 and operate 415 vehicles.
• The 20th International Truck of the Year has been won by MAN's F2000. Production began in Munich last October.
• Manchester-based driver agency Transclrive is advertising for full and part-time Class 1 drivers. The firm is offering between £4 and 24.75 per hour. Contact: 061-202 0880.