FairFuelUK (FFUK) is calling for a cut in fuel duty
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ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget on 21 March. “Fuel prices are still high, the economy isn’t improving and hauliers are still hurting,” says campaign founder Peter Carroll. At a meeting yesterday with the group of backbench MPs who spear-headed the parliamentary debate on fuel last year, FFUK was going to test the appetite of the MPs to back its call to cut fuel duty.
Suttons Group has won a contract with industrial medical gas firm Air Liquide UK to distribute bulk gasses. The operator will move gasses from its countrywide sites to UK customers.
Congratulations to the two winners of CM’s Ice Road Truckers DVD box-set competition. Lorna Andrews, partner with her husband at Richard Andrews Transport, of Stapleton, Leicestershire, and agency driver John Lyle of Duns in the Scottish Borders, both knew that Carlile Transportation Systems was founded in 1980.
The UK’s first business law class for family-run companies was launched last week (19 January) at Strathclyde University. The class has been designed to teach students legal implications for family businesses, such as start-up, growth, resolution disputes, and support haulage firms to avoid potential pitfalls.
Unsecured creditors of Cornish haulier Eden Aggregates are estimated to receive a dividend of almost 6p in the pound after the business went into administration last year.
Cardiff will be the first service centre in the Yodel network to shut as the parcel giant begins the closure of 45 of its service centres, leaving it with a single, integrated network of 57 sites in operation by mid-April.