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• Sadler Tankers of Thornaby-on qees has been bought by Harrogate-based British Fuels.
• Trevethin-based haulier Keith Evans has been banned from being a company director for seven years. He was director of Keith Evans Transport, Cwmbran, which went into voluntary liquidation in June 1995, owing nearly £206,000.
• Vehicles and equipment belonging to Bishop Auckland tipper firm Tennick Transport were sold yesterday. The firm went into receivership last month with the loss of 23 drivers' jobs; it is now being wound up.
• Four Liverpool men who stole 22,000 worth of fabric conditioner from a lorry in Cambridgeshire as its driver slept have had their sen fences cot by London's Criminal Appeal Court • TDG's p,oit5 and turnover rose slightly last year. Preliminary end-of-year results show pretax operating profits of £368m, cornpared with £36.4m in 1995.
• French hauliers and unions have begun talks with their government to implement agreements which ended the blockades last November. One union has warned that unless satisfactory progress is made by 31 March there may be Further protests.
• Sittingbourne-based McKay Freight, trading as Fast Forward International, has no connection with Marden, Kent-based McKay International Services which has gone into receivership,