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• Ulster-based Trevor Cathers has become the first UK haulier to settle a claim against the French authorities for November's truck blockade. One down, I ,l 07 to go...
• Safeway logistics director Lawrence Christensen has taken over from Graham Miller as president of the Freight Transport Association.
• Just over 27% of trucks failed recent tyre checks carried out in 10 counties. Each failure had at least one tyre in a dangerous condition.
• Canterbury Crown Court has jailed driver Anthony John McCoy of White Rock, Kent, for three-and-a-half years for indecently assaulting young boys.
• Fuel prices remained static in the run-up to the general election, according to the latest PHH AllStar report. Glasgow was the cheapest place to buy diesel with an average price of 58.25p/lit.
• Freight movements on P&O's European ferries jumped 54% in the first three months of the year.
• Accountancy firm Deloitte & Touche says internw;onol fraud in the European Union could be costing up to £48bn a year.
• Tibbett & Britten's French subsidiary AxIci has bought car transporter firm Sanara Logistique Automobile.