• The three-month moratorium on motorway and trunk road repairs
6th October 1988, Page 5
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has been lifted by the Department of Transport. In March, the DTp launched a 12-month, £142 million road-repair programme but in June, Transport Secretary Paul Channon suspended an estimated 74 projects. Now the DTp plans to award some maintenance contracts, but it is not known how many.
• National Carriers Contract Services has won one of its biggest ever contracts —worth £16 million over three years — with General Motors Service Parts UK. It will buy 80 new vehicles and 65 trailers andd take on 80 extra people to its existing General Motors contract, which employs 70.