"Walter Briscoe" wrote in message
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... I would also like
to know if the driver's income will be protected by something like TUPE.

Can't help with the other points but TUPE is irrelevant. It is to do with
employment rights when a firm or organisation is transferred to a new owner,
to prevent the workforce being replaced by a new one.

The initials stand for something like 'Transfer of Undertaking - Protection
of Employment'.

Paul S