Briefs

• Hays has bought courier Corporation for £65m. It plans to merge two thirds of ICS into Hays Express Services and the rest into Hays Document Exchange. ▪ Securicor Distribution......

Small Tipper Fleets Face Rates Disaster

by Derren Hayes • Hundreds of small tipper operators are close to collapse because they can no longer absorb the continuing fall in rates caused by a steady decline in work.......

Tacho Offences Cost Jf Alford £32,000

• Southampton haulier JP Alford, its managing director and 20 employees have been fined more than £20,000 for a series of tachograph offences with the judge accusing the manage.......