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Thales UK has been awarded a £880,000 contract by Fowler Welch Coolchain to equip its fleet of 750 refrigerated trailers with a satellite tracking and temperature monitoring system. The system is due to be fully operational in January 2006.

Digital tachographs could be with us from April, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

Teesland iDG has won consent for its 7,925 sq m (85,300 sq ft) industrial/warehouse development at Access 4:20 on Bellingham Way, Aylesford, near Maidstone, Kent.

The Freight Transport Association has set out a four point plan to the European Commission in its response to the mid-term review of the White Paper on European transport policy published in 2001.

Up to 3,000 jobs could be created through the proposal of six new distribution centres at Teesport by PD Ports.

Some 135 jobs have been saved at a haulage business after the firm was bought by its management. Administrators confirmed the milk haulage business and more than 1,500 cattle at DW Weaver in Endon, had been bought and will now trade under the name of Weav