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• Lincolnshire-based Geoff Gilbert International has become the first UK operator to use the new EU currency to buy vehicles; he spent his Euros on three new Scania tractors.
* Avoncrop of Sandford near Bristol has been fined £7,000 for 1 4Jivers' hours offence. Driver Mark Harmer was fined £1,800 for 15 hours offences.
• Logistics group has bought express delivery company the French Partner group for £16m.
• The Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chancellor will be among 50 MPs who will be visited by hauliers demanding answers to questions over
rue! , says the RHA.
• Dawsonrentals has bought 600 Vo[va, as part of a fleet replacement programme. The FL6 rigids and FH and FM tractors are all due to be delivered this year.
• Mick Janicki has been appointed group operations director at United Carriers group companies Carpet Express, Island Express and Ripponden Carriers.
• The Post Office has bought German Parcel Paket Logistics, Germany's fourth largest parcel service, for more than £300m.
• DFDS Transphas bought Dublin-based Meadowsfreight Ireland, but has ended distribution work with paper importers out of Blyth in Northumberland.