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Connect Decentralises
• Troubled parcels firm Connect UK is scrapping its Heathrow HQ and moving to the Midlands in a bid to decentralise and save money. New boss David Featherstone, who has also......
Hale Road Safety Cushions The Blow
• Hale Road Safety claims that this is the UK's first lorrymounted cushion — the Alpha TmA. It has been bought by Hereford and Worcester County Council. The cushions are......
Material Handling Re Gs Coming Soon
• A Government Green Paper proposing new legislation on materials handling will be published this summer. Under the proposals employers will be required to assess risk caused to......
Oaf By Sells Bonds To Dutch Investors
• Daf By, parent company of Leyland Daf, is raising 246 million through a bonds issue in Holland. The bonds guarantee investors a 6.75% return over eight years. This is Dais......
• Registrations Of Foden Trucks Are Up 350 On Last
year, wi 108 four-axle rigids registered before the end of April. The company says it is winning customers for 32.5-38-tonn tractor units and that 424 vehicles were registered......
Bee Line Struggles In Fire Aftermath
• Bee Line bus company of Berkshire admits it is struggling to run a full service after an arsonist set fire to its Newbury depot two months ago. The fire gutted 25 buses,......
Dtp Pushes For Psv Door Law
• The Government wants to change Britain's bus door safety laws, forcing operators to install fail-safe devices on driver-only vehicles. This follows growing pressure on the......
• We Have Been Asked To Point Out That The
recent world-record breaking 7,600-tonne Econofreight load-out at the Press Offshore Hadrian Central yard took place on a day chosen by the client and not dictated by tidal......