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• Somerset haulier Framptons International has bought BOC Distribution's maintenance and parts business Tachograph Services, which will now operate as Mendip Truck & Bus Services.
• Nearly 30% of transport employers plan to take on more sta-i in the third quarter of 1998, says Manpower: 10% expect to shed jobs.
• Erith lorry driver
Forrester is on trial for drug smuggling. He denies using his truck to import four consignments through Dover while working for Versa Pak.
A motorist in Colchester was given a safely war
after he was found to be driving in wellington boots full of baked beans.
LDV has cashed in on the current footkall fever by signing a "two-season, seven-fig
New West Midland & South Wales Traffic Commissioner David Dixon is holding a seminar in Coventry on 7 July. Contact: 0121 608 1029.
• Rail Freight Group has formed the lndepender Terminals Sub-Group to represent independent railfreight terminal operators.
• Women are generally safer dn., than men, according to an AA survey, but they are twice as likely to have accidents at junctions.
• Dover Harbour Board is calling for a direct ruilfreight link between the Channel Tunnel and Dover, to create a cheap, second through-rail route across the Channel.