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• Hays' distribution arm has increased operating profits by 29% to £49.1m on a turnover of £396.5m in the year to 30 June 1994—due in part to contracts won in France.
lb Shareholders at the Berkely Group, formerly known as the Business Technology Group, approved an £8.3m acquisition of Derby-based parcels carrier Captain Cargo on Monday (19 September).
• The M6 could be one of the first motorways to be tolled under Government suggestions that it may introduce a 4.5p per mile charge for trucks on motorways by 1998.
* The Vehicle Inspectorate has issued 45 prohibition and defect notices following a check of 88 trucks on the MI at Meadow Hall, near Sheffield on Monday (19 September).
Taylor Barnard's Bromsgrove depot, which services a contract for the drugs company Bayer, has accepted a £4 12.25%) pay rise on basic, and 50p on subsistence payments. Other depots are still negotiating.
03 Argyll and Bute MP Ray Michie has quashed plans to increase the VED paid by island-oased hauliers by more than 700%. Islanders currently pay £150.