All Motor Transport articles in 2020
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MT ArticleEdge Transport to expand food bank delivery scheme to other UK hauliers
Deeside-based Edge Transport has set up a scheme to help its customers re-distribute their surplus food or household items to local food banks and is hoping other hauliers will launch similar schemes across the UK.Working in partnership with Flintshire Food Bank, homeless charity Share and The Real Junk Food Project ...
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MT ArticleMT Awards 2019 winner: Haulier of the Year – sponsored by Volvo Trucks
Culina Group CEO Thomas van Mourik (second left) and company secretary Nigel Jury (centre) collect the Haulier of the Year trophy from Robert Grozdanovski, MD of sponsor Volvo Trucks (second right)Culina Group has shown it knows how to maximise its successes, admit its failures and constantly lift performance.Culina Group ...
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MT ArticleKuehne + Nagel joins Development and Climate Alliance as part of net-zero pledge
Kuehne + Nagel has joined the Development and Climate Alliance, a group launched in Germany in 2018 to promote development and environmental protection.The global logistics player said it joined the alliance as part of its Net Zero Carbon programme, which intends to fully compensate CO2 emissions it can’t avoid.Otto Schacht, ...
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MT ArticleGrowth in online retail sales driving spiralling demand for warehousing
Online retail sales exceeded £20bn last November and December for the first time, bolstering demand for warehousing space to cope with quick turnaround deliveries, according to real estate specialist Colliers International.It said that in the year to the end of September 2019, 55% of overall industrial lettings for warehouses over ...
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MT ArticleNew FTA research reveals 4% drop in HGV greenhouse gas emissions during 2019
The FTA has hailed new figures showing a dip in HGV greenhouse gas emissions as "a positive and encouraging step" in its bid to help the government achieve its proposed 15% reduction target by 2025.THE 2019 results from the FTA's Logistics Emissions Reduction Scheme (LERS) showed members of the voluntary ...
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MT ArticleUK ratifies digital consignment notes after pilot project with Brian Yeardley Continental
The UK government has ratified the Electronic Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM) protocol, allowing national and international transports from and to the UK to be achieved with digital consignment notes.The agreement comes after a successful international pilot project with Dutch e-CRM platform TransFollow, West Yorkshire-based haulier Brian Yeardley Continental under the ...
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W D Cormack & Sons fined £8,000 after driver sustains serious injuries falling from trailer
Thurso-based haulier W D Cormack & Sons has been fined £8,000 after one of its drivers was left severely injured after falling from a trailer that he was loading.Perth Sheriff Court heard that driver Colin Sutherland, 53, sustained a fractured skull and broke his pelvis, three ribs and a wrist ...
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MT ArticleHIAB signs MAW Engineering as sales and installation partner
Hiab says it has strengthened its offering to Northern Ireland customers with the addition of MAW Engineering as an authorised sales and installation partner.The agreement will complement the Hiab Service & Parts provision delivered by Dennison BodyShop across Northern Ireland.Under the terms of the contract, MAW Engineering will be responsible ...
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MT ArticleDevereux Developments tipped into red following "slight" fall in turnover
Devereux Developments, which trades as Devereux Transport and Distribution, fell into the red last year following a “slight” fall in turnover, according to its latest annual results.Filing its annual results to 31 March 2019 the family firm, which is based in Billingham, County Durham, revealed a pre-tax loss of £57,683, ...
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MT ArticleConvey Technology to supply Earned Recognition essentials to fleet operators
The DVSA has given management software firm Convey Technology the seal of approval to supply Earned Recognition (ER) technology to fleet operators.The IT firm said its suite of compliance products enable companies to gather, analyse and interpret compliance data that fall within the requirements of the ER standard.Convey now includes ...
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MT ArticlePro Freight Solutions in administration
Staffordshire general haulier Pro Freight Solutions has entered administration.The company, which traded out of two premises in Burntwood and Walsall and held an O-licence totalling 30 HGVs and 32 trailers, called in insolvency experts from FRP Advisory on Christmas Eve.Incorporated in 2008, Pro Freight Solutions specialised in nationwide same day ...
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MT ArticleNational Grid gears up to provide en route charging capacity for electric and hydrogen vehicles
At the recent FT Future of Mobility summit, National Grid project director for electric vehicles Graeme Cooper presented on the future of road transport. Motor Transport caught up with him to take a more detailed look at the role of the grid in enabling electric vehicle charging.While HGVs powered by ...
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Hydrogen will play a key role in decarbonising road transport
Sheffield-based ITM Power is the leading manufacturer of electrolysis plant to make hydrogen, so it is no surprise that its CEO Graham Cooley sees a big future in the use of hydrogen to power heavy trucks.ITM Power is the UK lead in H2ME, a €170m collaborative project involving 43 partners ...
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MT ArticleErith Haulage Company reports further growth
Erith Haulage Company has put increased turnover and profits last year down to the scale and type of work it was able to carry out.The Kent-based haulage contractor increased turnover by 9.4% in the year ending 30 September 2019, to £27.04m.Pre-tax profit increased seven-fold, to £1.09m during the period.In a ...
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MT ArticleEulos.EU calls in administrators
Kent-based car transporter Eulos.EU called in administrators just two days before Christmas.The company, which provided transport to vehicle manufacturers, fleet operators and retailers in the UK and on the continent, had been trading since 2009.It held an O-licence for 25 lorries and 25 trailers and had an operating centre in ...
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MT ArticleMotor Transport Awards 2020 open for entries
The 34th Motor Transport Awards will return to the Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane on 1 July 2020 to celebrate, recognise and reward excellence in the road freight transport industry.What makes the Motor Transport Awards so valued by the winners is the fact that they are judged by ...
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MT ArticleFedEx UK sees profits plunge as cost of integrating TNT Express continues to rise
Pre-tax profit at parcels giant FedEx UK plummeted by more than a quarter last year, the parcels company has revealed.Reporting its latest annual results to 31 March 2019 the company, which operates a fleet of over 800 trucks and 700 trailers from a string of depots across the UK, revealed ...
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MT ArticleNetwork Rail chair Sir Peter Hendy to address bridge strikes at Microlise Transport Conference
Sir Peter Hendy CBE, chair of Network Rail, is to explain how the organisation is working to reduce bridge strikes in an address to the Microlise Transport Conference on 20 May 2020.The former Commissioner of Transport for London is one of the first confirmed speakers at the event, to be ...
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Government must provide national road map for the decarbonisation of freight
The RHA is calling on the government to set out a national road map to decarbonise freight over the next 25 years which respects vehicle life cycles and supports business investment.In its strategy paper, Vision to Decarbonising Road, published this week, the RHA argues that a freight decarbonisation road map ...
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MT ArticleFedEx UK hit with £533,000 fine after worker hit by reversing forklift truck
Parcel carrier FedEx UK has been fined over £500,000 after failing to ensure safe pedestrian access in the workplace which resulted in an employee being seriously injured by a reversing forklift truck.Cannock Magistrates’ Court heard that in the early morning of 2 November 2017, an employee was walking across the ...