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• Conciliation service ACAS is being asked to settle a month of unsuccessful between Leedsbased A One Transport and the TGWU, representing its 150 drivers, which has submitted a E4-an-hour claim.
UK Waste Management has bought M Collard Waste Disposal of Hartley Wintney, Hants which has 13 skip trucks and a turnover over El m. Previous owner Mick Collard maintains a plant hire and tipper business at the same Hampshire site.
• Roadworthiness should bebe lifted more quickly from January, thanks to new Vehicle Inspectorate rules. Revised procedures mean operators can get back on the road as soon as faults are corrected.
Drivers have new £500,000 facties at North Sea Ferries' Hull terminal. A lounge, showers, televisions and snacks are among the comforts provided in response to an increase in driver-accompanied vehicles on the company's HullRotterdam route.
Detailed plans for the new -hways Aqenci, will be published at the end of February. The agency, which starts work in April, will manage the motorway and trunk road network.
Great Universal Stores (GUS) group plans to
expand its Ali,. distribution operation in 1994. The expansion is to cater for the Firm's increasing business on the Continent.