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• Members of reefer haulier association Transfrigoroute, will be able to dip into a network of international lawyers from March to help them collect debts from overseas customers and to sort out personal injury claims.
• Essex haulier Peter Cramp has been found not guilty of being involved in a plot to smuggle cannabis into the country (20-26 January).
• Diesel engine maker Cummins made a 2121.3m profit last year after suffering a net loss in 1992 of £129.8m. Strong sales in the US and the recovery in the UK market have aided sales, which have grown over the last one and a half years.
• Parcels carrier UPS is to recognise the United Road
T -.nod. Union at its site in Charlton, South East London, where 40 of 60 drivers and warehouse staff have joined the union.
• The incue. into the Sowerby Brc,L accident, in which six people died last September, will be resumed on 24 February at Bradford Magistrates Court.
• Telford-based parcels firm SpeecIline Couriers is expanding into a Welshpool, Powys depot next week which it will rent with an option to buy from NFC subsidiary Lynx. It expects to close its other Welsh site, at Newtown, a week later.
• Police are appealing for witnesses to an accident on 6 December last year on the westbound carriageway of the M62 at Junction 15 at Swinton in which an LGV collided with a Peugeot 106 saloon.