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Losbqueues Recruitment Drive As Vosa Aims To Lose The...
VOSA IS RECRUITING more vehicle testers in an attempt to alleviate its problems with forward booking times. Currently 36 full-time posts in UK test stations are vacant; 60......
Freightliner To Pay E250m
FREIGHTLINER HAS agreed to compensate MAN for the fraud committed at ERE the British truck manufacturer which MAN took over in 2000. Freightliner is to pay an indemnity of 1250m......
Anglian Buys 135 Sprinters
NORWICH-BASED replacement window company Anglian Home Improvements has ordered 135 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans in a £2.8m deal. The vans are all 311CD1 models running Euro-4......
Standing Down
Christopher Macgowan, chief executive at the SMMT, will leave at the end of the year.......
Name Change
Widnes, Cheshire-based O'Connor Transport (Widnes) is now trading as O'Connor Container Transport.......
Smaller Footprint
Raitfreight operators have outlined five moves, including increased speeds, to reduce Welsh transport's carbon footprint and boost efficiency.......
Bank Recruits
The Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank has two new members of its CV Team. David Humphreys is national sales manager with an Pad ley as product manager.......
Truck Ban
Leighton-Linslade, Beds, is considering banning all trucks except those making deliveries. This follows a 20year campaign by residents to limit traffic in the town.......
Safe Africa
International development agency Transaid has launched a Tyre Safety Awareness Campaign in Malawi and Zambia to cut road traffic crashes in Africa.......
Green Technology
According to transport management systems company lsotrak, 'technologyenabled' retail supply chains are now leading the transport industry in cutting carbon emiss,ons.......