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Volvo's Sales Are Boomin
• Volvo Trucks (GB) doubled profits and increased sales by 30% last year, 1987. Pre-tax profits rose from £4.9 million in 1986 to £9.9 million, and total sales increased to £240......
Tdg Buys Stake In Innocenti
• Transport Development Group has bought a majority stake in French chemical and petrol tanker haulier Innocenti. The company is based in Avignon and has four other depots. It......
Esso Distribution To Be Up For Grabs
• Within weeks, Esso will announce plans to contract out its distribution, but no single tanker operator is likely to win a national deal, say industry sources (CM 21-27 April,......
Mercedes Sales Up In Line With Market
• Mercedes-Benz has sold its 110,000th truck in the UK. The company says its sales in the 3.5-tonne plus market are up by 16.1% in the first six months of 1988 — compared with......
Grp Will Supply Reefers To China
• Leeds bodybuilder GRP Massey is supplying 25 sixmetre rigid reefers on Leyland Daf 16.16 chassis to the People's Republic of China. The vehicles will carry fish in the......
Hays Distributioi Splits Into Two
• Transport company Hays Distribution Services is splitting into two operating divisions; contract distribution an storage. The contract distribution arm will be headed by Brian......