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Fastrack Group Rildlands-based overnight parcels delivery company; ceased tradingin February 2001. Job losses: 340.
Arthur Eddie and &era Transport More casualties of early 2001. Both companies, based in Fraserburgh, were owned by long-standing Scottish fish haulier Arthur Eddie.
Job losses:10 drivers. Subcontractors also lost money in the collapse.
Rugby Formarding Receivers called in in January 2001. Based in Lutterworth. Leicestershire, this haulage firm had depots in Lutterwonh and Poole. Dorset.
R&M Chillspeed Another Scottish haulier went to the wall. But there were rumours that it had begun trading again under the name Carrycool in Glasgow. Subsidiary companies Kyle Transport and Bellwood Transport in Rotherham have also closed.
MIK (Somerset) This Shepton Mallet-based company went into voluntary liquidation in December 2000. Worked as a subcontractor for general haulage, and also ran five tippers.
Job losses: 21.
K Blakemore Express Parcel Delivery (Wolverhampton) Another pre-Christmas liquidation in 2000. Job losses: 24.
James Baxter &Son Pathhead. Midlothian-based timber specialist called it a day in November 2000 to avoid the risk of going bust.
Job losses: Four drivers.
Booker Bristol-based food distribution firm decided to close its Bristol distribution centre in November 2000 and ceased trading in February 2001. Job losses: 340, including 75 drivers.