Paper money • Transport Development Group subsidiary Beck and Pollitzer
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has won a multimillion pound distribution contract with Wiggins Teape Fine Papers. The deal will be centred on a dedicated 10,000m2 highbay warehouse at Beck and Poilitzer's new distribution headquarters in Dartford.
Anyone for Port
• The RHA has warned truck drivers not to take their families in their cabs into port complexes during school holidays. RHA Eastern District manager Chris Wright says: "Should drivers continue to ignore warnings of this nature, it will be necessary for a port ban to be placed on all vehicles containing children."
Loophole closed • The Government is to enforce the weighing of TIR vehicles using foreignregistered RO-RO ferries. This closes a loophole (CM 16-22 February) under which the regulations currently only apply to UKregistered ferries.
Sent to Coventry
• Next year Peugeot Talbot will relocate its headquarters to Coventry after seven years on the outskirts of Birmingham. "It was always a temporary move," says the company, "and we have finally made up our mind to return to Coventry."
FTA in picture • The Freight Transport Association is backing the Government's hi-tech plans to cut road accidents: "Given the right safeguards, the FTA fully supports methods such as the use of cameras as proposed in the recent White Paper The Road User and the Law," says FTA director-general Gary Turvey.
Anglia 2000
• East Anglian companies are banding together to promote infrastructure investment in the region, particularly in the form of roads spending.