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All Motor Transport articles in 2014 – Page 6
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Fowler Welch half-year finances remain steady
Fowler Welch has reported a broadly static half-yearly revenue for the period ended 30 September, achieving £78.1m (2013:£78.2m), with its operating margin also holding firm at 2.7% (2013:2.7%).The company said overall operating profit fell 11% to £1.6m (2013: £1.8m) as a result of expected start-up losses at a new joint ...
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Royal Mail warns threat from Amazon logistics network could stifle growth
Royal Mail has warned for a second time that competition from other carriers, this time Amazon’s own delivery network, will damage its growth prospects.In its half-year results, the company estimated that its total number of parcel deliveries in the UK should increase by 4% a year in the medium term, ...
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ArticlePallet-Track bolsters network with new members
Pallet-Track will increase its number of members to 80, after recruiting five new hauliers into its pallet network. The network, which celebrated 10 years in business this year, will welcome long-term Pall-Ex member Massey Wilcox into the fold to cover the BA and DT postcodes next September.Leyton, London-based LT Baldwin ...
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UK Mail parcel volumes hit by weak retail market
UK Mail expects volume growth in its parcels division to slow down in the second half of this year as it continues to feel the effects of a weakened retail market and poor volumes in the second quarter.Turnover in its parcels division increased 3.4% to £109.4m (2013: £105.8m) in the ...
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UK Mail Group writes down the value of its pallet network
UK Mail Group has written down the value of its struggling UK Pallets business, revealing a £7.3m impairment charge relating to goodwill dating from its purchase in 2003.The group took action after revealing that in the six months ended 30 September 2014, turnover at the pallet network fell 1.1% to ...
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ArticleJohn G Russell benefits as customer business booms
Scottish multimodal operator John G Russell has said it is attracting new customers via its UK-wide road and rail network, and that it will continue to benefit from an increased workload as a result.Having now shed its sister chest-freezer manufacturing unit, John G Russell (Transport) saw a 9.3% increase in ...
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ArticleCapacity problems: we need to rethink the buyer-supplier relationship
Christmas deliveries set to grind to a halt; agency rates going through the roof; 150,000 new drivers needed by 2020 – the capacity headlines continue to run and run, and concern across the industry is palpable.An outside observer would be forgiven for thinking this problem is a new one, the ...
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Ceva wins Finning NDC contract
Ceva Logistics has been chosen to operate an NDC for Caterpillar equipment dealer Finning, replacing five in-house operations.Under the deal, Ceva will operate a 120,000ft² site on the Lakeside Estate in Cannock, Staffordshire, for six days a week. The NDC will house all of Finning’s engine stock, plus some 60,000 ...
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Former Palletline boss Kevin Buchanan to join rival Pall-Ex
Kevin Buchanan is expected to be revealed as group MD of Pall-Ex imminently, marking a sensational return for the man that quit the top job at rival Palletline in August.Buchanan was a shock departure from Palletline this summer having helmed the pallet network since 2007, a period that saw it ...
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Government says increase in out-of-hours deliveries will cut cycling deaths
The government believes out-of-hours deliveries will play a key role in reducing collisions between HGVs and cyclists.In response to the Transport Committee’s summer report on cycling – in which the government called on more to be done by operators in regards vulnerable road user safety, while stopping short of backing ...
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ArticleTransport Exchange revamps mobile app
Transport Exchange Group has revamped its mobile app for drivers of vehicles run by members of its Haulage Exchange freight trading platform.The new, improved app has improved status and workflow functionality to provide more accurate information and access to additional real-time and historical load data while on the move. A ...
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ArticleDelivering Christmas: the government needs to take action, not supply words
The Hub woke up today to find transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin plastered across the newspapers - Telegraph, Daily Mail and countless regionals - suggesting it best to get a move on and do your Christmas shopping early, due to the fact that there’s no HGV drivers to actually deliver it ...
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ArticleMystery surrounds enquiries into dumped post
Mystery surrounds the strange case of a bag of post found dumped in a river earlier this year, after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) confirmed it had dropped its enquiry into the matter while the police told The Hub it had no record of the incident.Following the discovery of the ...
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DVSA poised to publish new guidance on load security
The DVSA has confirmed it is to publish three new forms of guidance on load security. This will comprise a guide for vehicle operators, a leaflet aimed at drivers, and a series of instructional videos.The agency said it is finalising the content of the operator’s guide and hopes to publish ...
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Tiger Trailers wins first order from Norbert Dentressangle
Trailer manufacturer Tiger Trailers has secured an order from 3PL Norbert Dentressangle for three, 15.65m longer semi-trailers.The trailers will be delivered during February alongside five 13.6m curtainsiders, Tiger Trailers sales director Darren Holland said. They will be used in the 3PL’s operation on behalf of packaging firm DS Smith.All are ...
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ArticleLogistics contractors will share grocers' pain
Grocery retailers under growing pressure from online and discount rivals are looking to cut billions of pounds in costs from their supply chains in the coming years, and logistics contractors will have to play their part in making these savings, the annual IGD supply chain summit in London heard this ...
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ArticleVeolia invests £1m in cyclist safety measures
Recycling and waste company Veolia has begun fitting out its entire refuse management fleet with the TurnAlarm cyclist safety system from Vision Techniques.The system, being provided under a £1m contract, provides cyclists with audio and visual warnings along the nearside of trucks turning left. It will be fitted to Veolia’s ...
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ArticleDfT wants more cycle-friendly measures from operators, but doesn't mandate a code of practice
The DfT has said it wants to see more HGV operators adopting measures to improve the safety of vulnerable road users such as cyclists – but has stopped short of backing a call for an industry-wide code of practice on the issue.A report by the House of Commons Transport Committee ...
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Green Group on track for growth following integration of Seafield Worksop
The Green Group has successfully integrated into its business the Worksop warehousing division of collapsed Seafield Logistics that it acquired from administrators in July.Company founder Pete Osborne told MT the integration had “gone great”. However, he warned that the warehousing sector remained notoriously competitive, particularly in the company’s South Yorkshire ...
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ArticleLandmark ruling says mandatory overtime should be included in holiday pay
In a landmark case on 4 November the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that staff mandatory overtime should be included in holiday pay calculations.The judgment came from two joined cases – Hertel (UK) Ltd v Mr Wood & others; and Amec Group Ltd v Mr Law & others – and could ...