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• Months of Joint Industrial Council in Scotland have ended with drivers accepting a 2% increase on basic pay and a 1.9% increase on overnight subsistence, backdated to April 1994.
6 Drivers at Darlingtonbased general haulier George Allinson Transport are set to vote on action after talks with the United Road Transport Union on changes to their wages structure ran into problems.
• Business failures in England and Wales fell 15% in the first half of the year, but are still running at about 850 a week, says business information group Dun & Bradstreet, .
• Beck & Pollitzer is set to sign a E Om-o-year car tract with a customer in the consumer and industrial sector. About 30 drivers and 30 warehouse staff will be based at Daventry.
• Food and drink distributor Taylors of Martley (Haulage), Worcs, has added 40 new and replacement Scania 320P
tractive units to its 150-strong fleet.
Universal Bulk
Handling's broader customer base for interrnodal tankers and the increased demand for stainless steel tankers helped boost oper
at Hadleigh Industries from £170,000 to £1.14m for the year to April.