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It's All At The Co-op Now !
Overseas owner-drivers get together "to beat the freight forwarders" IT'S all at the Cop-op now, says the advert—and a group of owner-drivers got the message and came to London......
University Challenge
This year's customers' dinner organised by Midlands BRS at Magdalen College, Oxford, was a notably cheerful affair in the midst of so much economic gloom. It is always a rather......
Business Barometer
Peter Thompson, newly catapulted from BRS into the top operating executive job at NFC, reckoned you could tell whether or not it was a good year for transport by the way the......
Gone Fishing
The Oxford dinner was almost end-of-contract time for Reg Cole, that doyen of contracts managers. In three weeks he retires, after 40 very successful years in transport. He's......
Convalescent
There was news, too, of another ex-BRS/NFC senior executive—Len Payne, now with Sainsburys. He's been very ill in St Thomas's Hospital, London, but I'm told he's hoping to be......
Stable Trucks
In all the public hoo-ha about Chrysler the truck side has, mercifully, figured very little. Now I have it on good authority that, with the settling of the Chrysler UK business,......
Request Time
Music and psv have been getting together in another area, too—and earning quite a press. The Scottish Bus Group's decision to have taped music on 50 double-deckers operated from......