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All Motor Transport articles in 2015 – Page 55
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ArticleDHL Tradeteam appoints new MD
DHL Tradeteam has announced James Gill as its new MD with immediate effect.It follows the appointment of former MD Gavin Murdoch to president and representative director of DHL Supply Chain, Japan.In his new role as MD, Gill will oversee Tradeteam’s nationwide on-trade and off-trade drinks network, distributing leading brands for ...
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Royal Mail peak parcel volumes up 4%
Peak parcel volumes at Royal Mail Group were up 4% year-on-year, with the post and parcel giant handling 120 million in December alone.Despite a 3% increase in parcel volumes, parcel revenue remained flat in the nine months to 28 December 2014, the operator said in a trading statement today.It attributed ...
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ArticleDPD to launch its own click and collect network
Not one to stand still in the home delivery market, DPD has revealed plans to develop its own network of 2,500 parcel shops to take advantage of consumers' growing demand for click and collect.The shops will operate under a new ‘DPD PickUp’ brand and are set to open in June.Numark ...
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ArticlePentalver to open permanent container depot at World London Gateway
Pentalver will develop a permanent container depot at DP World London Gateway following the success of an operation it launched from a temporary premises opened in April 2014.The new depot will see the container specialist operating out of a purpose-built five acre site to begin with, with additional land available ...
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ArticleMeachers takes DIY approach to driver shortage
Shown here are the first two drivers to have gained C+E entitlement via an HGV driver upgrade scheme at Meachers Global Logistics. The Meachers HGV Licence Upgrade scheme, which involves giving drivers who already hold a C catergory licence, professional training to achieve their C+E, is run in partnership with ...
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ArticleAmazon Sunday deliveries quadruple a year since launch
Online retailer Amazon has claimed that the number of Sunday deliveries in its network has quadrupled in the past 12 months.The retailer’s own logistics network began making deliveries seven days a week in January 2014, following a successful trial in London during the previous peak period.Amazon did not disclose how ...
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Staffing Matters: Is the glass half full?
I’ve discussed the use of apprenticeships within our sector in several of my recent columns and expressed my concerns about the struggle to attract talent because of the poor perception and understanding of the sector, particularly among the under 25s.I have also questioned whether apprenticeships might be part of the ...
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Strong 2014 for Walkers Transport
Leeds-based Palletways member Walkers Transport has said it expects to show an 8% year-on-year increase in combined group turnover to £17m for calendar year 2014.The haulier said its Leeds depot, which has acted as the northern hub for Palletways since 2012, is now processing 3,500 pallets a night. Previously those ...
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ArticleFees Fors Fo Fum: paying the price for success?
Fors (or, in full, the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme as it's now known) is by any measure a successful scheme.Nurtured by TfL since inception in 2008, it now has 2,400 companies in membership, representing some 210,000 vehicles.Around two-thirds of these members are also based outside of London, although will likely ...
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ArticleWolseley launches apprenticeship scheme for aspiring drivers
Plumbing and heating products supplier Wolseley is launching a year-long apprenticeship scheme for aspiring HGV drivers at two of its DCs.The scheme is being delivered in partnership with Telford College and offers a training package worth £7,000 comprising both classroom-based and on the road training, including technical training, maths and ...
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RHA meets with business secretary to highlight driver shortage issue
The RHA has met with business secretary Vince Cable to highlight the impact the current driver shortage is having on the economy and how it could be addressed.In a meeting last week RHA chief executive Richard Burnett also put across the industry’s need for a government training fund to help ...
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ArticleUK pallet networks ring the changes
The UK’s pallet networks have made a host of new appointments for 2015.With Palletline having named former ARR Craib group distribution director Graham Leitch as its new MD recently, the United Pallet Network (UPN) has followed suit and made two key appointments of its own.Jayne Lowndes has joined as regional ...
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Skills for Logistics begins creditors' voluntary liquidation
Skills for Logistics (SfL) is to begin the process of a creditors’ voluntary liquidation to wind-up its operation.A spokesman for Manchester-based corporate insolvency firm Begbies Traynor, who confirmed the decision to MotorTransport.co.uk, added that a creditors' meeting would be held on 9 February.The company announced earlier this month that SfL ...
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ArticleAcumen Distribution puts four more longer semi-trailers into operation
Acumen Distribution has put four more 15.65m longer semi-trailers on the road, taking the total number of trailers it operates under the DfT trial to 21. The SDC trailers are to be put into operation on three return routes from Sunderland to Wednesbury, Sunderland to Telford and Redditch to Middleton. ...
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M&S set to close DHL-run Coventry DC
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has revealed plans to cease operations at its Coventry DC, which is owned and operated by partner DHL Supply Chain, from April. An M&S spokesman told Motortransport.co.uk that the proposal is part of its supply chain transformation programme, which was launched in 2009 and aims to ...
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ArticleEddie Stobart ends dispute with former Tesco drivers
Eddie Stobart has ended a long-running dispute with 184 HGV drivers that had been pursuing an unfair dismissal claim relating to the logistics giant taking over the running of a Tesco DC in Doncaster in 2012.At a meeting that took place prior to an employment tribunal hearing in Sheffield last ...
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ArticleWincanton wins BAE Systems' UK shipbuilding logistics contract
Wincanton has been awarded a new contract with defence manufacturer BAE Systems, to provide full logistics and warehousing services in support of its UK shipbuilding operations.This includes its programme to deliver three new River Class Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Royal Navy.The long-term agreement, which starts with the outsourcing of ...
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Suttons Group still strong despite Harvest Energy loss
The loss of customer Harvest Energy to Norbert Dentressangle in April 2014, after a competitive tender, has seen Suttons Group report £10.5m of discontinued activities in its UK road haulage business.In the year-ending 30 April 2014 Sutton and Son (St Helens) – which comprises its UK road tanker operations (Suttons ...
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ArticleGaps left in Bibby Supply Chain Services' management team
There appears to have been a great deal of change amongst the team at Bibby Supply Chain Services last month with the departure of not one, but two of its directors.Following the announcement that Iain Speak has stepped down from his position as chief executive to form his own consultancy, ...
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Paul Kavanagh appointed as R Swain & Sons MD
Paul Kavanagh has been named as MD at R Swain & Sons, replacing Bob Swain who stepped down last month.Kavanagh, formerly chief operating officer at Bibby Supply Chain Services, took up his new position at the Rochester, Kent-based operator on 1 January. Former MD Bob Swain has moved to a ...