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• Tanker manufacturer Thompson Carmichael has been acquired by Heil of America, which builds more than 3,700 tankers a year.
• Red Star has launched a parcel franchise operation to cover the I lH,II (RH) postcode region in Surrey.
• Brigade Electronics makes the BDI Backeye CCTV rearview system; not Proximeter, as implied in "Reversing trends" (CM 8-14 Jan).
• P&O North Sea Ferries is chartering two new RO-RO ferries for its TeesportZeebrugge route for 1999, to increase capacity by 35%.
• Lancashire transport workers' agency Hire People can be contacted on 01772 622772. It offers warehouse staff, van and forklift drivers.
• Parcels carrier ANC has invested 21m on a new custom-built depot, four new vehicles and more staff.
• Railfreight is set to grow by 300% within the next decade, to a market shore of 2(1 the Commons transport sub-committee heard last week.
• Acrobat Vehicle Rental is a new company specialising in refrigerated vans and trucks and run by Adrian Rice, formerly of Adrian Truck Hire arid TDG.
• Truck driver Barrie Russell of Ambleside near Luton been
jailed for .(-if r, for smuggling 117kg of cannabis through Dover.
• The RHA has told a Commons select committee that the beef crisis has ruined 30 hauliers. It is demanding compensation.
• Drivers of Consolidated Lands Services at Scunthorpe and South Wales have unanimously voted for a series of one-day pay strikes starting on 2 February.
• German truck manufacturer MAN denies press reports that it may sell its truck division to Volkswagen.