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Hauliers Lose Oil Deals By Karen Miles • The Large
number of contractors carrying industrial fuels for BP Oil are set to lose their work as the oil giant sweeps them away to bring in Wincanton Transport and P&O Roadtanks.......
Weweler Closure • Depressed Conditions In The Trailer...
to take their toll as Dutch trailer suspension manufacturer Weweler closes the Telford office it opened last May.......
Super Spanner • Brs Apprentice Darren Gibson Has Been...
the IRTE Northants centre cup for heavy vehicle mechanics. The IRTE presents the cup each year for the best heavy vehicle apprentice in each region.......
Electric Failure • Mwm (power Trucks) Of Walsall, West...
has gone into liquidation with debts of £30,000. The company manufactured diesel-electric trucks and tractors and purpose-built trailers. It was set up in 1983 and employed six......
Safety First • Overnight Delivery Specialist Elan Has Won A
contract with industrial safetywear distributors, WA Blyth. Elan will deliver for Blyth everywhere outside South Wales: it already handles up to 70% of Blyth's total......
Honda Move • Transport Development Group Subsidiary Beck...
is about to start a five-year contract moving car components from a distribution centre at South Marston to Honda's new car factory at Swindon.......
Tough Test I Chris Macrae, Assistant Branch Manager With...
Dunfermline, has passed the Institute of Advanced Motorists' CV driving test. MacRae already holds a Class 1 HGV licence; he took the test as part of the Pickfords "Safe......
Auction Site • Brs Car Auctions Will Open A Site
in Coventry on 28 January. Trade sales will be on Thursday afternoons with public sales, including light CVs, on Tuesday evenings.......
Panic Link Expanding There Were More Than 700 Applicants For
the latest batch of franchises. They have all bought their own vehicles: orders worth £ 5 , have been undefined......
Locomotors Sale Crucial To Orders • Three Million Pounds...
of orders could be lost unless troubled bodybuilder Locomotors of Andover can find a buyer for the business before the end of January, says managing director Jim Greenhalgh. The......
Bel Loses 70 Jobs • Seventy Jobs Have Been Lost
at BEL Truck & Van and its sister company Bus Engineering. Parent company Bel Holdings was placed in the hands of the receiver late last year with debts of £5.5m. Bus......