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Just The Job • Job Prospects In The Road Transport
industry are more optimistic than the service sector as a whole, according to the latest Manpower survey. Staff increases are planned by 27% of road transport employers — up 4%......
Renault Synergy • Renault Has Merged Its Bus And Coach
division with its truck division. The French manufacturer, which now claims to be the world's second biggest commercial vehicle builder, says that the move will improve......
Angloco Under Fire • The London Fire Brigade Has Placed
a threeyear £1.75 milllion contract with Batley-based Angloco to supply six Volvo 8x4 FL10 fire tenders with Bronto Skylift hydraulic elevating turntables. Angloco has also been......
M25 Blues • Contraflow Restrictions On The M25 Motorway...
Chertsey and Staine caused a 50km tailback this week. The contraflow results from widening work, but the increased delays could last for the next two months.......
Achtung Curfew!
• The Swiss authorities are imposing a night-time curfew on HGVs (22:00hrs05:00hrs) from 1 May.......
Tnt Makes Moves For Xp
• TNT Express Europe has moved to buy XP, the international parcels subsidiary of Dutch airline KLM. TNT's bid is being considered by the committee for merger affairs of the......
Fuel Costs Ris
In price sting • Higher diesel prices are matched by a dramatic change in pricing strategy, says market analyst John Hall. "Oil companies have dropped their strategy of 'deep......
Cvt Freighter's Return
• Next month the British Technology Group will display a 16-tonne Freighter, two buses and a Ford Sierra car fitted with Perbury Continuously Variable Transmission, The CVT......
Kbd Buys Up Dormobile
• Dormobile has been bought by Essex-based design and engineering consulatancy, KBD Group. New director and general manager at Dormobile, Mike Harrington, says it was not a......
Psv Giant Heads For Stagecoach
• This week Stagecoach Holdings is taking delivery of Britain's biggest ever bus — a 110-seater on a Leyland Olympian chassis. It comes from Walter Alexander of Falkirk and will......
Get Ferry Cover Warns The Fr
• The Freight Transport Association warns all operators to check that their insurance covers losses at sea. Ferry companies are not bound by the international conditions of......