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All Motor Transport articles in 2015 – Page 51
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Operators split over Fors fees
Operators joining newly privatised Fors later this month will pay from £485 up to an eye-watering £11,250 in annual fees to be part of the benchmarking and safety initiative.The new pricing, which sees operators charged on the basis of fleet size and number of operating centres for the previously free ...
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ArticleOperators urged to monitor routes during cycle superhighway 2 upgrade works
TfL is urging the use of alternative routes during peak times while construction work to upgrade cycle superhighway 2 (CS2) takes place.The upgrade will create a fully and semi-segregated route between Aldgate and Bow roundabout, including 11 cycle-priority junctions installed, including at Aldgate, Mile End and Whitechapel.The vast majority of ...
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TNT Express misses turnover and profit expectations
TNT Express said it does not expect to see the full benefit of its profit improvement strategy until 2018-19, as it admits it did not acheive the turnover and profitability it expected in 2014.It anticipates that adverse trading conditions in Western Europe will continue and believes that 2015 will be ...
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Skills for Logistics liquidation process gets underway
Skills for Logistics (SfL) has officially entered creditors’ voluntary liquidation.Following a creditors’ meeting on 9 February, Peter O’Hara and Simon Weir of West Yorkshire firm O’Hara & Co were appointed to handle the liquidation.Speaking to MotorTransport.co.uk, Weir said the liquidation process would take several months to complete, while standard investigations ...
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Contract review hits DX Group turnover
DX Group saw turnover slip during the first half of its financial year as it continued with its strategy of ending commercially unattractive contracts that were inherited with its acquisition of the former Nightfreight business.Its half-year results covering the period to 31 December 2014 revealed a drop in turnover to ...
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InPost locker network continues to grow, while ByBox leaves B2C market
In looks like InPost UK is making headway with its plans for 2,000 parcel lockers across the UK, but rival ByBox has decided to pull out of the B2C locker market altogether.Jonathan Smith, chairman of InPost UK, said volumes are continuing to grow and is signing up more retailers to ...
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ICO spills the beans on dumped post enquiry
At last, The Hub has achieved some closure to the long-running saga of the Information Commissioner’s enquiry into the bag of post found dumped in a river in North London early last year.The case, which involved the discovery in April 2014 in Colindale, north London, of a full bag of ...
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RHA sets date for government roundtable debate on HGV driver funding
The RHA has confirmed it will be meeting with the Treasury next Friday (20 Feb) to thrash out the potential of direct funding for road haulage employers wanting to train new HGV drivers.A meeting last month with business secretary Vince Cable saw RHA chief executive Richard Burnett (pictured) highlight the ...
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ArticleA strong set of results for Lancashire's Fagan & Whalley
Fagan & Whalley revealed strong growth in both group turnover and profit in its latest financial results, including a healthy contribution from its joint venture with Farrall’s Transport.The Lancashire operator posted a group turnover (minus joint venture revenue) for the year ended April 2014 of £22.3m, up 13.5% on the ...
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Don't point the finger at trucks for that congestion...
Light goods vehicle traffic continues to rise faster than other vehicle traffic, provisional new statistics from the DfT have shown.Lights good vehicle traffic jumped 5.8% in 2014 to reach 45.1 billion vehicle-miles compared with an overall increase across all vehicle types of 2.1%. HGV traffic rose 2.2% last year to ...
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ArticleND rolls out the red carpet for flooring supplier
Shown here is one of five new MAN TGS 6x2s that have joined the fleet of 3PL Norbert Dentressangle to service its contract with Forbo Flooring Systems. All are equipped with a roof-suspended load restraint system, internal bars to allow product to be stored vertically, and Hiab Moffett truck-mounted forklifts ...
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ArticleFDC (Holdings) expands into multi-million-pound Walton Summit site
Lancashire operator FDC (Holdings) has expanded into a new DC near Preston.FDC, which specialises in palletised distribution, storage and fulfilment, has acquired Unit 330 at Walton Summit Centre for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.As well as serving as a second warehouse and DC, the company also plans to turn the site ...
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ArticleEvans renews Bandvulc tyre contract
Evans Transport, a north Devon-based family firm with over 350 vehicles, based in NorthDevon has renewed its tyre supply and management contract with Bandvulc.MD Nigel Evans said: "We’ve been using Bandvulc for a number of years now and, having trialled other brands extensively, we find their overall package to be ...
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Ocado sets its sights on more delivery spokes
Ocado plans to add more delivery spokes to its network this year to meet increasing demand for its own grocery operation, as well as that of online delivery partner Morrisons.Following the news that it is to develop a fourth hub, in south-east London, Ocado said it has acquired additional sites ...
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Fors fees ignite debate on scheme's future
So now we know the fees that those wishing to partake in Fors (the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme) will need to pay, as TfL's scheme makes the move into the private sector under Aecom. Operators are still digesting those and no doubt we'll hear more views in the coming weeks (three ...
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Gerrard Seel selects Gefco for wine deliveries
Wine merchant Gerrard Seel has chosen Gefco UK as its multimodal logistics provider.The deal involves the delivery of imported products into Gerrard Seel’s bonded warehouse in Liverpool. It will transport products via full truck loads, rail and sea into the warehouse from various regions across the globe.Gefco claimed that transporting ...
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Profit falls by a third at Fred Sherwood & Sons (Transport)
Pre-tax profit fell by a third last year at MT Top 100 company Fred Sherwood & Sons (Transport), despite a 2% increase in turnover.Its annual accounts for the year ended 31 March 2014 revealed a 35.4% drop in pre-tax profit to £944,007 (2013: £1.4m). Turnover increased to £37.9m, up 2% ...
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Acquisitions boost for Knights of Old
Knights of Old has said it expects to “reap the benefits of larger economies of scale”, after a full year of trading incorporating its 2013 acquisition of AE Parker saw pre-tax profit and turnover rise.For the 12 months ending 31 May 2014 turnover rose to £47.4m, up from £44.6m in ...
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Arla renews Bridgestone tyre management deal
Dairy farmer co-operative Arla Foods has renewed its tyre management contract with Bridgestone for three years. Under the contract, Bridgestone will supply its premium tyre range with its tyre pressure monitoring system and the Total Tyre Care service package through to 2018, with real time monitoring and analysis of fleet ...
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Beverley Bell to become CILT president
Beverley Bell, senior traffic commissioner for Britain, is to become president of the CILT in May. Bell, who will take over the one-year presidency from Jim Spittle, chairman of standards body GS1 UK, has been vice-president for two years and a member of CILT for nearly a decade.It is believed ...