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Fashion retailer Next has agreed a lease on a 1.1m sq ft distribution complex at St Paul’s Developments and Tritax Assets 85-acre Brookfields Park in South Yorkshire.

DAF is aiming to improve flexibility and reliability with an improved CAN bus system ‘Body Builder CAN’.

The offices of British Airways and a number of other air-cargo companies, have been raided by European and US anti-trust officials, as part of a co-ordinated investigation into alleged cargo price-fixing.

Geoff Newton, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, has left the institute after little more than a year in the job.

Roadcrew Solutions, Volvo Truck’s all-makes parts division, is moving its warehouse operation from its current location in Warwick to the Volvo Parts facility in Rugby, due to its rapid expansion over the last five years.

The proposed London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) offers poor value for money, excludes 94 per cent of the capital’s vehicle population, and will not enable air quality targets to be met according to the Freight Transport Association.

Postcomm, the independent regulator for postal services, has proposed penalties of £11.7m on Royal Mail for serious breaches of its licence obligations.

Figures released from the DVLA this week show that only 10,640 Smart cards have been issued to drivers in the UK.