All Motor Transport articles in 2018 – Page 4

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    Motor Transport Top 100 2018 Interactive Tables – Top 100 Notes

    2018-11-27T10:24:00Z

    These interactive tables enable you to explore Motor Transport's Top 100 2018.Click on the tabs at the top of the table to view the different data sets. You can also click on the column headers to sort the table data from highest to lowest (or click again to sort from ...

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    Motor Transport Top 100 2018 Interactive Tables – Top 100 Sales per employee

    2018-11-27T09:55:00Z

    These interactive tables enable you to explore Motor Transport's Top 100 2018.Click on the tabs at the top of the table to view the different data sets. You can also click on the column headers to sort the table data from highest to lowest (or click again to sort from ...

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    Motor Transport Top 100 2018 Interactive Tables – Top 100 Growth in Profit

    2018-11-27T09:33:00Z

    These interactive tables enable you to explore Motor Transport's Top 100 2018.Click on the tabs at the top of the table to view the different data sets. You can also click on the column headers to sort the table data from highest to lowest (or click again to sort from ...

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    Motor Transport Top 100 2018 Interactive Tables – Top 100 Return on sales

    2018-11-27T08:47:00Z

    These interactive tables enable you to explore Motor Transport's Top 100 2018.Click on the tabs at the top of the table to view the different data sets. You can also click on the column headers to sort the table data from highest to lowest (or click again to sort from ...

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    Motor Transport Top 100 2018 Interactive Tables – Top 100 Profit per employee

    2018-11-27T08:12:00Z

    These interactive tables enable you to explore Motor Transport's Top 100 2018.Click on the tabs at the top of the table to view the different data sets. You can also click on the column headers to sort the table data from highest to lowest (or click again to sort from ...

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    Motor Transport Top 100 2018 Interactive Tables – Top 100 Growth in turnover

    2018-11-27T08:09:00Z

    These interactive tables enable you to explore Motor Transport's Top 100 2018.Click on the tabs at the top of the table to view the different data sets. You can also click on the column headers to sort the table data from highest to lowest (or click again to sort from ...

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    Prolog in administration and up for sale

    2018-11-26T17:24:00Z

    Prolog, a Nottinghamshire warehousing, distribution and logistics provider, has been put up for sale after entering administration as expected.In a statement Rebecca Dacre and Simon Chandler of Mazars confirmed they had today (26 November) been appointed as joint administrators of Promotional Logistics, which trades as Prolog.“Prolog is a provider of ...

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    Kinaxia Logistics adds haulage business number eleven with Fresh Freight Group

    2018-11-26T17:02:00Z

    Kinaxia Logistics has made its eleventh haulier purchase, snapping up Fresh Freight Group (FFG) in Gateshead.The buy is Kinaxia’s first in the North East and comes after it added Manchester-based AKW Group to its ranks last month.Peter Fields, director at Kinaxia Logistics, said: “It should come as no surprise to ...

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    Brexit set to compound sector skills shortage irrespective of the final deal, warns FTA

    2018-11-26T12:54:00Z

    Uncertainty over the immigration system after Brexit next year will compound the industry’s driver shortage and goods and services could grind to a halt, according to an FTA report.The FTA’s skills shortage report showed that there has been no let up in the struggle among haulage and logistics business to ...

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    Palletways member Rase Distribution brings in its own delivery weight limit due to safety fears

    2018-11-26T12:37:00Z

    Palletways member Rase Distribution has introduced a 750kg weight limit on tail-lift deliveries to domestic addresses after a risk assessment by owners HW Coates concluded that the network’s 1-tonne limit was putting the firm’s drivers at risk.The Lincolnshire company, which was bought by Hazchem member HW Coates in January, is ...

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    LoCITY roadshow helps operators explore a sustainable future for deliveries and servicing

    2018-11-23T15:59:00Z

    Finding sustainable ways to handle delivery and servicing journeys to homes and businesses was the focus of TfL’s LoCITY roadshow held at CEME Conference Centre, Rainham this week (20 November).The half-day event invited freight operators to learn from experts, take part in debate and hear from their peers about using ...

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    Prolog poised to enter administration

    2018-11-23T15:54:00Z

    Prolog, a Nottinghamshire warehousing, distribution and logistics service, is expected to enter administration next week (26 November), its proposed administrator has confirmed.The company, which has licences authorising 16 HGVs out of its Sherwood distribution park depot, plus another seven from a site in Sudbury, Suffolk, employs 618 staff.Mazars said ...

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    Truck cartel claim reaches crucial point as CAT assesses competing class actions

    2018-11-23T10:03:00Z

    The claim for compensation against the big six European truck manufacturers for agreeing gross list prices for new vehicles over 7.5 tonnes sold between 1997 and 2011 has reached a crucial point, as the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) will decide early in 2019 which of the competing class actions it ...

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    Major new player EV Cargo set to shake-up UK road transport industry

    2018-11-23T08:00:00Z

    EmergeVest, the Hong Kong-based private-equity investor that has acquired CM Downton, NFT Distribution and Palletforce over the past four years, has merged its road transport and logistics assets into one company: EV Cargo.It has created a business that would rank 11th in the Motor Transport Top 100 and is now ...

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    UK 'four meals away from anarchy' in event of Brexit no-deal, warns expert

    2018-11-22T17:43:00Z

    The prime minister needs to get a Brexit deal through parliament, as the UK is only ‘four meals away from anarchy’ in the event of no-deal, delegates at the Feeding Cities Summit were told yesterday (21 November).Speaking at the UKWA event, Stephen Lawrence, CEO of property investment and development firm ...

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    Gas buses 'the most reliable on the fleet' for Reading Buses

    2018-11-22T16:05:00Z

    While gas trucks are still a rare sight on UK roads, buses operating in towns and cities have been running on natural gas for years.Reading Buses is a good example, so MT went to talk to John Bickerton, head of engineering and innovation at Reading Buses, to see what lessons ...

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    Registration open for Microlise Transport Conference 2019

    2018-11-22T12:27:00Z

    Registration is now open for next year’s Microlise Transport Conference, which takes place at The Ricoh Arena on 15 May.A mix of speakers will cover the major topics affecting road transport businesses and the conference programme will include workshops and 50 exhibitors.Quentin Willson, journalist, presenter and industry lobbyist, will return ...

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    Pallet-Track to bring in power assisted equipment for all tail-lift deliveries

    2018-11-21T07:22:00Z

    Pallet-Track members have backed a move to increase the pallet network’s internal delivery rate to pay for power-assisted delivery equipment to address weight concerns.From 1 February 2019, all vehicles making tail-lift deliveries will have power-assisted pallet trucks on board – similar to those pictured with network member Bartums – to ...

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    Mandatory 20% cut to truck emissions by 2025 attacked by manufacturers

    2018-11-20T13:27:00Z

    A mandatory 20% cut to CO2 emissions for new trucks by 2025 is “excessively aggressive” and will slow the production process in Europe, manufacturers have warned.The warning from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) follows a vote by the full European Parliament last week in favor of a mandatory 20% ...

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    Simpson Logistics ran out of road due to a customer dispute and creditors chasing payment, says administrator

    2018-11-20T11:46:00Z

    Administrators handling the affairs of County Durham haulier Simpsons Logistics said it had stopped trading due to a combination of cash flow issues, a customer dispute and a winding up petition.The former Palletforce member and independent carrier of parcels and pallets entered administration in September, but according to consultants at ...