Elder's back
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• Owner-driver Bob Elder (above), whose truck has been impounded in Sicily for three months after a fatal accident, is back in business (CM 21-27 May). Ironically, the recovery of his MAN artic was delayed again last week after the murder of judge Giovanni Falcone by the Mafia.
Share bonanza • Employee-owned NFC is to introduce a share option scheme for its 33,000 staff. NFC says it will improve the existing profit sharing programme which has been in operation since 1986.
Yugo on • Yugo van owners will be able to get most spare parts at least until November despite UN sanctions banning imports of Serbian-built vehicles, says Reading-based Yugo Cars.
Toleman posts • Roger Pinnington is the new group chief executive of car transport firm Toleman; Graham Palmer becomes managing director of Toleman Automotive, a post he held from 1986-89. Pinnington will oversee a capital restructuring.
Tight squeeze
▪ Blundering local authority chiefs rebuilt a bridge leading to the remote Scottish community of Mallaig — but made it too narrow to cope with trucks. The approach has now been widened.
Bearing recall • All Peugeot Talbot Express, Citroen C25 and Fiat Ducato-based 3.4-tonne CVs converted by AL-K0 Kober between October 1987 and July 1990 are being recalled to rectify a wheel bearing problem.