Bleak Prospeds

U Job prospects in the transport industry look bleak for the first quarter of this year, with 13% of employers in the industry looking to cut their staff, and only 8% expecting......

Leyland Puts Trucks Under The Hammer

IN Leyland Trucks is experimenting with auctions as a means of disposing of its exdemonstrator and company vehicles. The company has begun selling the vehicles at Leyland......

• The Truck Division Of Eastbourne-based Leyland Dealer...

up for sale. Chairman Alan Caffyn told Commercial Motor, "We have decided the time has come to move out and reinvest in the car business, but there is still a long way to go.......

Kirkby Group Buys Phillips

• Kirkby Central Group — currently in the process of being bought by Plaxtons — is to buy the Sheffield-based Leyland truck dealer Phillips Trucks Servies. The final price will......

In Brief

• Specialist distribution consultancy. Planned Warehousing of Guildford, with a client list including Tate and Lyle, House of Fraser, Townsend Thoresen and Littlewoods, has just......