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All Motor Transport articles in 2015 – Page 58
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APC to hold recruitment day for former City Link staff tomorrow
APC Overnight is to hold a recruitment open day for former City Link staff tomorrow (6 January).The parcel network plans to make up to 100 jobs available to former City Link employees. More than 2,300 staff at the failed parcel carrier are to be made redundant after it appointed administrators ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Violeta Bulc, EU Transport Commissioner
Violeta Bulc, EU Transport Commissioner8) Violeta Bulc, EU Transport CommissionerSolvenian Bulc replaced Siim Kallas as European Commissioner for mobility and transport in October, and will hold the post until 2019. However Bulc isn’t a career politician in the true Brussels bureaucrat stereotype.She used to work for a Slovenian telecoms supplier ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Moya Greene, CEO, Royal Mail
Moya Greene will retire in September9) Moya Greene, CEO, Royal MailThe semi-privatised Royal Mail/Parcelforce remains the big beast in post and small parcels, and where its tough talking Canadian CEO Moya Greene takes the organisation will have a big impact on the whole industry.Greene has a fractious relationship with the ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Tim Slater, MD, Transport, Energy & Chemicals, Engineering & Manufacturing, DHL Supply Chain
Tim Slater, MD, Transport, Energy & Chemicals, Engineering & Manufacturing, DHL Supply Chain10) Tim Slater, MD, Transport, Energy & Chemicals, Engineering & Manufacturing, DHL Supply ChainA long job title means a busy MD, but among his many responsibilities Slater’s team is ultimately in charge of designing, specifying, procuring and managing ...
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DfT pushes back end of paper driving licence until June
The DfT has revealed the abolition of the paper driving licence will be delayed until 8 June this year.Motortransport.co.uk reported last year that plans to do away with the paper part of the driving licence from January had been put on hold, after opposition from trade associations concerned it would ...
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More than 2,300 City Link employees laid off
City Link’s administrators have made more than 2,300 staff at the failed business redundant.Following the parcel carrier’s collapse into administration on Christmas Eve, Ernst & Young confirmed that although an offer was made for the business by a consortium, it offered “no money up front and significantly undervalued the assets ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Boris Johnson, mayor of London
11) Boris Johnson, mayor of LondonThe mop-topped cycling mayor of London may be seen by many as a bit of a buffoon – his attack on the EU drivers’ hours rules in August was widely seen a gaffe – but Johnson has been hugely influential in moves to make construction ...
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ArticleTake part in Best Places to Work in Road Transport
Transport operators with a large percentage of drivers on the payroll can still take part in Best Places to Work in Road Transport.Motor Transport, in association with Logistics Job Shop, has launched this major new awards scheme to recognise the best employers in third-party road transport and logistics voted ...
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CVS and Richard Lawson Leeds Crown Court latest
The relationship between Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) and Richard Lawson’s Spirit Auto Logistics and its successor Spirit Motor Transport was further explored on 12 December, when the trial of two directors and two of the management team of CVS, and Lawson, continued at Leeds Crown Court.Last month CVS MD Martin ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Richard Fleming, logistics director, Sainsbury’s
Richard Fleming, logistics director, Sainsbury’s12) Richard Fleming, logistics director, Sainsbury’sSainsbury’s has more convenience stores (676) than supermarkets (595) today and it’s Fleming’s job to make sure that it’s 2,000 plus trucks and vans are delivering to this multiple channel of retail outlets as efficiently as possible.Half of its convenience stores ...