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• Connect Uk Claims To Have Found A Private Investor
prepared to invest £5 million in the company, and plans to launch its parcels operation by the end of October. The company will not identify the hacker, but says it clinched the......
Truck Traffic Increases As Hauliers Take Five
II Britain's maximum-weight hauliers still have a strong preference for five-axle artic units, judging by the Department of Transport's provisional traffic .figures for the......
Iveco Doubles Profit But Goes For 20% More
• Iveco aims to boost its profits by at least 20% this year, according to managing director Giorgio Garuzzo. Last year the company more than doubled its nett profit to some 285......
• Thieves Broke Into An Isolated Workshop Area In The
Alice Holt Forest, near Alton, Hants, last Sunday night (27 September) and stole a Forestry Commission ERF tractor unit and its flatbed trailer, which is fitted with an Atlas......
Costs Still Rising Faster Than Rates
• HGV operating costs rose by 2% during the first half of the year, and increases for light CVs were nearer 3% — but overall haulage rates increased by less than 1%, according......