Pta Takes The Rail Way

• The Freight Transport Association is to set up a clearing house for rail freight. The move has been prompted by the imminent closure of the Speedlink network and complaints by......

Moving Home • South Shields-based Teamhawk (distribution)...

home deliveries after winning a contract with Houseproud (UK)todeliver conservatories nationwide. At least four trucks, ranging from 7.5 to 24 tonnes will be used on the......

Trailer Park • Central Trailer Rentco Plans To Park Up

to 500 trailers — roughly 4% of its UK fleet — on a disused airfield in North Yorkshire. They are mostly old tandem-axle vehicles which could be refurbished, sent to Europe, or......

Lone Star

• Exel Logistics has bought the US distribution business Universal Terminal Warehouse Company for $4.5m (£3m). UTW serves 150 customers and turned over $7.8m (£5m) last year. It......

Bradford Bound • Hellmann International Has Closed Its...

in Manchester. In future loads will be consolidated at the firm's Bradford site but Hellmann's parcels business will still operate from Manchester.......

United Pulls Out Of Fashion

• United Carriers is closing its hanging garment subsidiary, Scorpio International, and has sold the goodwill to Tibbett & Britten. The decision has caused a scramble for......