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All Motor Transport articles in 2015
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Motor Transport Power Players: 12 - Margrethe Vestager
12) Margrethe VestagerTitle: European commissioner for competitionFormerly the Deputy Prime-Minister of Denmark Vestager makes this list because she has one decision in her hands that could reshape the road transport industry, namely approving FedEx’s acquisition of TNT.The commission had until 7 December to “make sure that FedEx's takeover of TNT ...
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2015: A year of industrial disputes in road transport
With an improving economy and subsequent pressure for operators to improve pay, it's been a year of hard negotiation for many, and in some cases road transport businesses and even the DVSA have had to contend with industrial action including strikes. Motortransport.co.uk looks back at a year of disputes.January2015 began ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 13 - Steve Parkin
13) Steve ParkinTitle: Chairman, Clipper LogisticsSteve Parkin is one of those larger than life characters that still enliven the logistics industry. Having left school with no qualifications and after spending 18 months working as a coal miner, he built Clipper Logistics from a one man and a van operation to ...
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ArticleTevva develops electric truck for city centre deliveries
A range-extended 7.5-tonne electric truck using a chassis cab built by China’s JAC and UK-sourced key components could help combat urban air quality concerns, said developer Tevva Motors. The Brentwood, Essex, company contends that the newcomer can travel for up to 100 miles on battery power only, meaning it can ...
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2015 - a year of mergers, acquisitions and shocks
2015 saw some shocks in the market; FedEx bidding for TNT Express; XPO Logistics buying Norbert Dentressangle and BCA Marketplace buying Eddie Stobart's automotive business. But they weren't the only acquisitions in a year packed with M&A activity. We take a look at some of the deals that changed the ...
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Does the UK need a nationwide safer lorry standard? Part 2
This is part two of the article, which originally appeared in Freight in the City's sister publication Commercial Motor. With regards to London’s increased enforcement powers, the FTA expressed concern over TfL’s “unilateral approach” to regulating the freight sector, in particular the speed of rolling out new requirements.It said any ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 14 - Moya Greene
14) Moya Greene Title: Chief executive officer, Royal MailThe Motor Transport Top 100 employ more than 331,690 people across the country. However, Royal Mail’s 143,000 employees account for 43.1% of that total. Or in other words, no one in road transport is responsible for more jobs in this industry than ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 15 - David Wells
15) David Wells Title: Chief executive, FTAWells succeeded Theo de Pencier as chief executive of the FTA at the beginning of May. It’s unusual that the chief executives of both associations are starting their period in office at similar junctions, which makes it hard not to make comparisons with the ...
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Does the UK need a nationwide safer lorry standard? Part 1
The government has been urged to create a national definition for a ‘safe lorry’ to avoid multiple compliance standards being enforced across different cities.It has also been asked to extend to councils the power to apply their own lorry bans according to local requirements, with any exempt vehicles from such ...
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ArticleMotor Transport Power Players: 16 - Rob Flello MP
16) Rob Flello MP Title: Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freight Transport and MP for Stoke-on-Trent SouthFlello is the pre-eminent voice in Westminster when it comes to freight. Just before the election he said that it was “a largely misunderstood industry, often disregarded, or worse, by many in ...
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Fuelling the future; what the trucks of tomorrow will run on (part 2).
Commercial Motor takes a look at what we can expect to see fuelling the trucks of the future and how the industry is making preparations (part two of two).Hybrid methodsMost hybrid applications, though, use diesel/electric technology in one form or another. There are two basic hybrid concepts, series or parallel. ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 17 - Andrew Woolfenden
17) Andrew WoolfendenTitle: UK distribution director, TescoThere are fewer more high-profile, and demanding, jobs in road transport and logistics than running the in-house operations of (still) Britain’s biggest retailer.Tesco has had a rough 18-months, posting its worst set of annual results and a pre-tax loss of £6.38bn in February. Much-hand ...
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Fuelling the future; what the trucks of tomorrow will run on.
Commercial Motor takes a look at what we can expect to see fuelling the trucks of the future and how the industry is making preparations (part one of two).When many of us were starting off in the industry, predictions about the day the oil runs out suggested that it would ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 18 - Alex Laffey
18) Alex Laffey Title: Chief executive officer, Eddie Stobart LogisticsIn April 2014 Stobart Group disposed of 51% of its 100% shareholding of the Stobart road transport business to Douglasbay Capital (Dbay) – the former owners of TDG - for £280.8m.At the time William Stobart was the chief executive, but a ...
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New MTP episode available now
The latest episode of the Motor Transport Podcast (MTP) is available for download now. In this week's broadcast, Christopher Walton, Emma Shone and Ashleigh Wight discuss the effect the closure of the Forth Road Bridge is set to have on the haulage industry, with the RHA predicting huge industry-wide costs.The ...
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Motor Transport Power Players : 19 - Derrick Potter
19) Derrick Potter Title: Founder and executive chairman, Potter LogisticsDerrick Potter celebrated both the 50th anniversary of the founding of Potter Logistics and his 50th wedding anniversary in 2015, marking the occasion with the title of Motor Transport Haulier of the Year.While company isn’t the biggest in the UK by ...
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Potter makes it a double celebration in 2015
Potter Logistics picked up the Haulier of the Year Award in the 2015 Motor Transport Awards - the same year it celebrated its 50th anniversary.Naming Potter Haulier of the Year, the judges said it was a family business with a customer-centric ethos that had secured some very loyal, long-standing clients.The ...
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ArticleScottish hauliers slam "horrendous" cost of Forth Bridge closure
Scottish hauliers are up in arms about the “horrendous” extra costs they face because of the HGV ban on the Forth Road Bridge, which has been extended until the end of February. The bridge, originally scheduled to reopen to HGV traffic on 4 January after steelwork repairs, will reopen to ...
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FM Conway gets Econic in London
Construction company FM Conway has taken delivery of two Mercedes-Benz’s Econics.The tipper-grabs are claimed to be the first of their type in service in London based on the Econic chassis.Supplied by Dealer Sparshatts of Kent, FM Conway’s new trucks are both 8x4s single front steer axles, double-drive bogies and rear-steer ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 20 - Michael O'Donoghue
20) Michael O’DonoghueTitle: executive vice president for the UK, Ireland and Nordics, Ceva LogisticsAfter a painful and damaging refinancing and restructuring that saw several major customers move work away, Ceva Logistics is now back on the up.O’Donoghue is leading the firm’s resurgence in the UK and talks bullishly of a ...