AWD interest • AWD's receiver says it is holding "detailed
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negotiations" with two UK-owned truck manufacturers interested in the Bedford-based truck maker.
Dennis and ERF say they are not involved.
Dennis float • Trinity Holdings, manufacturer of Dennis fire engines, refuse vehicles and buses, is planning an .80m stock market flotation this month.
Mirror mirror • Kent County Council and local police are studying the benefits of fitting left-hand-drive trucks with extra mirrors to cover the vehicles' potential offside blind spot. BOC Distribution Services has fitted its fleet of 750 trucks with fish-eye mirrors to cut blind spots.
Central test • Central Trailer Rentco has opened a trailer testing centre at Leeds, which it claims is the first privately owned site to emerge from a VI announcement last month that operators could test vehicles at their own premises.
Yugo first • Ten British trucks left for Yugoslavia last week to join United Nations convoys taking relief supplies to Bosnia. The 12 drivers involved in the £500,000 operation will stay in Yugoslavia for three months.
P&O defensive • P&O European Ferries is preparing for the opening of the Channel Tunnel next autumn by increasing return sailings on its Dover to Calais route from 20 to 25 a day next April,