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Dec 2023
Business Breakfast: Boroughbridge man named AA Patrol of the Year
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An AA man operating from Boroughbridge has been named Patrol of the Year at the breakdown organisation’s annual awards ceremony.
The award is the AA’s highest accolade for its roadside patrols across the UK, and Chris Wood will now spend the next 12 months as the public face of the UK’s biggest drivers' organisation, representing it within the motor industry and to the media.
Chris said:
The judging process began in late September with nominations from across the UK, before six finalists were put through intensive technical and driving tests, panel interviews and mock radio interviews at the AA’s head office in Basingstoke in November. The awards were held at Vox Conference Centre in Birmingham.
Dean Keeling, managing director of Roadside Services at the AA, said:
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Snowplough maker named Bodybuilder of the Year
Ripon-based Econ Engineering is celebrating after scooping a major award at the ‘Oscars’ of the commercial motoring and road haulage industry.
The UK’s leading supplier of winter maintenance vehicles won Bodybuilder of the Year at the Commercial Motor Awards in Birmingham, where the cream of operators, dealers and suppliers competed for the top honours.
Econ, which supplies 85% of the nation’s winter maintenance vehicles from its assembly plant in Ripon, beat Lothian Vehicle Bodybuilders from Scotland and Cambridgeshire-based TVS Interfleet to the award.
A team from Econ was at the Road Transport Ball on Thursday, held at Birmingham NEC's, Vox Conference Centre to pick up their award.
Managing director Jonathan Lupton said:
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