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All Motor Transport articles in 2012 – Page 10
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ArticleHermes wins three year John Lewis contract
John Lewis has awarded a three year contract to Hermes, which will see the parcel carrier handle 48-hour home deliveries for parcels under 15kg.Parcels will be collected from the retailer’s regional depots six days per week and delivered to Hermes’ national hub in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where they will be sorted. ...
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Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK partners with Belgian operator
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK has launched a daily shuttle system servicing the UK and Belgium with one of the country’s logistics providers H. Essers.It said the partnership links Belgium and the industrial regions of the UK with a 48-hour door-to-door service.Hellmann added that the agreement reflected its commitment to consolidating ...
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ArticleThe Co-operative wants more longer semi-trailers
The head of logistics at The Co-operative Food would welcome any move by the DfT to expand the scope of the longer semi-trailer trial.Co-operative Food has spent £348,000 getting its full allocation of eight of the 15.65m trailers (the longest of the two variants) on the road.The Gray & Adams ...
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ArticleHMRC shuts down two diesel laundering plants
Two diesel laundering plants capable together of producing more than 15 million litres of illicit fuel a year have been discovered and closed in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland.Officers from HMRC and the Police Service of Northern Ireland found one plant hidden in a shed at a private address in Cullyhanna; ...
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ArticleCollapsed Waverley TBS vehicle fleet was leased
Wholesale drinks distributor Waverley TBS’s distribution fleet was entirely leased and the vehicles have now been returned to their owners, the firm’s administrator has confirmed.Despite holding a licence to run more than 300 vehicles the £309m turnover company, which is now being wound-up after administrator Deloitte failed to find a ...
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ArticleCosts expert warns over haulage rates
Some haulage contractors should be charging over four times the rate they are currently being paid, a prominent costs expert has warned.Brian Fish, MD of logistics and transport consultancy DFF International – who compiles the RHA’s annual cost tables and previously ran family haulage firm Joseph Fish & Sons – ...
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ArticleSecond Eddie Stobart strike at Doncaster DC off for now
Former Tesco drivers at Eddie Stobart’s Doncaster DC have suspended further strike action so that union officials and the logistics firm’s management can resume talks this Friday (19 October).More strike action was set to start tomorrow (Thursday, 18 October) but Unite officials representing the 183 drivers at threat of ...
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ArticleSuttons Transport Group parent raises UK turnover 10%
Suttons Transport Group parent Thomas Cradley Holdings saw its UK turnover jump almost 10% in the year ended April 2012, from £75.4m to £82.9m.The figure includes a contribution of £63.5m (an increase of 14% year-on-year) from Sutton & Sons (St Helens), the UK road tanker, warehousing and drumming operation of ...
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ArticleWincanton wins contract renewal from Asda
Asda has renewed Wincanton’s contract to manage and operate the supermarket’s DCs in Doncaster and Larne, Northern Ireland.The renewal runs until early 2016, and extends a relationship begun in 2005 at Larne and 2007 in Doncaster, which was Asda’s first NDC for general merchandise.Asda distribution director, Ian Stansfield, said: “Wincanton ...
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ArticleMid-size hauliers come into their own
Despite the tough economic climate opportunities exist for well structured and focused medium sized hauliers, according to David Inglis, former MD and chairman of Fowler Welch.Having been one of the original shareholders in Fowler Welch, Inglis saw the company achieve it first £1m turnover and believes the key to success ...
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ArticleStobart Autologic acqusition has been "seamless"
Stobart Group has said the integration of Autologic into its Eddie Stobart division has been “seamless” with all assets and key personnel retained.Autologic was bought by Stobart in August, after an initial bid – valuing the company at £12.4m - was made for the company in June.The acquisition adds £144.7m ...
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ArticleLloyd Fraser celebrates 25 years in business
MT Top 100 company Lloyd Fraser has marked its 25th anniversary as a business with a series of events and a new livery for 10 of its milk tankers.The newly liveried tankers operate from three sites in Dalton, Yorkshire; Milborne St Andrew, Dorset; and Four Crosses in Powys.Co-founder and MD ...
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ArticleFuel price transparency bill makes it to next stage
MPs have backed Robert Halfon's private members bill tabled today (16 October), which calls for the tax take on fuel to be printed on every forecourt receipt.The Conservative MP for Harlow, and founder of the PetrolPromise campaign, is calling for the complete tax breakdown (duty and VAT) to be printed ...
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ArticleRHA gets behind Robert Halfon's call for fuel price transparency
The RHA has said that if MPs don't back a private members bill being tabled today (16 October), which calls for the tax take on fuel to be printed on every forecourt receipt, they will need to provide a clear reason why they have vetoed it.Robert Halfon, Conservative MP for ...
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Kuehne + Nagel sees weaker third-quarter derail progress
Kuehne + Nagel’s road and rail logistics division saw volumes fall in the third quarter due to seasonality and the tough economic conditions affecting Europe, dragging down its nine month performance.It meant EBITDA was 9.6% down on the same period of last year for the first nine months of 2012 ...
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ArticleURTU men bailed again
The United Road Transport Union (URTU) men at the centre of a probe into Driver CPC training activities have had their bail extended yet again.The seven men include general secretary Bob Monks, national officer Mel Thornton and regional officers Lee Pimbley and Mike Billingham.They were originally arrested on 15 February ...
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ArticleOrange order for Norbert Dentressangle
Norbert Dentressangle has extended its relationship with Orange Chemicals for a further three years following a competitive tender.Under the new contract, ND has transferred the Orange Chemicals business from its tank storage facility in Dagenham to its dedicated hazardous goods warehouse and drumming plant at Acton Grange, near Warrington.ND receives ...
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ArticleLove Logistics livery initiative fails to find traction
The bosses of Abbey Logistics Group and Suckling Transport are disappointed that their efforts to promote the industry with a Love Logistics livery on their vehicles haven’t been embraced by other operators.Six months after the Love Logistics liveries were introduced, inspired by former Labour spin-doctor Alastair Campbell’s suggestion at an ...
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Quiet kit innovations will aid night-time deliveries
Operators could slash the noise generated by moving roll cages by almost half if they used rubber matting developed by Surrey firm Impactafloor.Demonstrated in the Noise Abatement Society’s (NAS) Quiet Delivery Depot at Commercial Motor Live earlier this month, the top 2mm layer of the Roll Cage Floor features hard ...
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ArticleNorbert Dentressangle takes Liberty
Norbert Dentressangle (ND) has picked up a new European warehousing and distribution deal with cable company Liberty Global.ND will establish Liberty's European DC in Venray, the Netherlands, along with a number of regional DCs, the first of which opened last month in Switzerland.The agreement builds on an existing partnership ND ...