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• Drivers carrying less than 100kg or 250 litres of flammable pas in cylinders are exempt from new legislation which requires hazardous goods drivers to acquire a training certificate.
• Supermarket chain Wm Morrison is to create more than 350 jobs at a warehouse and distribution centre it plans to operate from 1 996 close to the M62/M6 interchange near St Helens.
• British truck driver Philip Holmes has been found not guilty of drug smuggling charges after spending three months in jail an remand. He was acquitted at Liverpool Crown Court on 23 December.
• Ute Bathurst, the sacked controller of commercial and international affairs for the Road Haulage Association, has received £15,000 for unfair dismissal. A claim for sexual discrimination was dropped.
• Peter Baker of Hadleighbased White Rose Transport who was jailed for drug smuggling in July, is on the run from police after being allowed out of jail for a weekend wedding.
• Police arrested three men and recovered a £500,000 load of stereo equipment hijacked from outside Harwich docks when they raided a lock up garage in Barkingside, East London.
• DFDS-owned Harwich Transport and Humber Transport have merged to form HTL Transport at Harwich. The company has a combined Fleet of 600 vehicles, 300 staff and an annual turnover of £40m.