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Article"Thanks a million!" - Pallet-Track celebrates major milestone
Pallet-Track’s Mark Pulford and Wigan Council’s David Molyneux at the opening of the Northern Hub in August 2017Pallet-Track’s one millionth pallet has passed through its northern hub in Wigan – carrying a consignment of household cleaning products to help fight the Covid-19 virus.The pallet was delivered into the hub by ...
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ArticlePalletforce reports record demand as Covid strategy pays off
A range of support measures introduced by Palletforce in order to protect members and maintain volumes during the Covid-19 pandemic has helped the network achieve “record” demand.The company said it had set new weekly and daily records for network volumes and this came off the back of action taken by ...
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ArticleIT system handling post-Brexit HGV freight still not built
An IT system that allows freight on HGVs to be “pre-declared” before being exported when the country splits from Europe has yet to be built, raising concerns of snarl-ups at the border.With less than six months before the current transition period ends, HM Revenue & Customs is racing to set ...
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ArticleProfits slip at Chris Hayter Transport
Witney, Oxfordshire-based Chris Hayter Transport saw profits drop by 22% last year, which it said was expected in the current economic conditions.The company, which operates in markets such as industrial flooring, food, retail services and home delivery, reported a turnover of £20.6m for the year ending 31 December 2019.This was ...
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ArticleFirms delivering Covid-19 testing kits have "achieved the impossible"
A consortium of companies, including Yodel, Menzies Distribution and UPS Healthcare, are managing the collection and delivery of Covid-19 home testing kits into laboratories.Created by The Delivery Group in Warrington, The Carrier Consortium, which also includes DX and Diamond Transport, said it had “achieved the impossible” and was working to ...
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ArticleCrumbling roads a bigger issue than pollution, fleet managers claim
Less than a fifth of UK fleet and mobility managers want the government to focus on reducing pollution caused by transport, according to research by Arval.The finding, from research arm Arval Mobility Observatory (AMO), has surprised the vehicle funding and fleet management company, which said it “doesn’t ring true” in ...
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ArticleKnowles Transport expands e-commerce operation to meet peak demand
Knowles Transport is transitioning into the e-commerce market and building on the experience of supporting its customers with their online sales throughout the pandemic.The company said that in addition to handling an initial 30% spike in volumes, it had picked, packed and distributed over 20,000 food parcels for emergency services ...
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ArticleWincanton hails benefits of blockchain technology
The development of blockchain technology will help springboard the transport and logistics sector into decentralised, data-driven operations, Wincanton has predicted.Experts have described blockchain as 'change-maker' technology for the logistics sector that will ultimately become an affordable and more efficient way to share information and data between open and private business ...
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ArticleHydrogen a key technology for decarbonising road transport but no 'silver bullet'
There is growing support for the view that green hydrogen made with renewable electricity could play a key role in decarbonising heavy road transport, but it should not be seen as a “silver bullet” that will address all the industry’s carbon concerns.In a webinar looking at the potential for the ...
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ArticleNext invests in warehousing to expand online capacity
Fashion retailer Next has made an art form out of integrating physical retail with its online presence, as its results for the 12 months to 25 January 2020 showed. But even it has not been immune from the impact of Covid-19.Since the early 1990s, Next has operated its own inhouse ...
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ArticleTrade creditors of collapsed tanker business will now get dividend
Trade creditors owed money following the collapse of Norfolk waste and tankering business Harveyson Haulage are now expected to receive a dividend.The company entered administration in July 2018 and after a period of trading through its administration in order to preserve its goodwill, the haulier’s business and assets were sold ...
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ArticleDriver First Assist launches plan to provide low-cost defibrillators for road transport industry
Driver First Assist has moved one step closer to achieving its pledge to provide an automated external defibrillator (AED) at a fraction of the cost of existing products.With development and certification completed, the not-for-profit community interest company, which has so far delivered over 7,000 training courses on basic roadside first ...
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ArticleEngland's best motorway services revealed in new survey
Extra and Westmorland have been voted England’s best motorway service operators by almost 10,000 visitors.Extra, which operates six sites in the survey conducted by independent watchdog Transport Focus, and Westmorland, which operates four, achieved the joint highest overall satisfaction score of 97%.Transport Focus said that across the country as a ...
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ArticleNo-deal Brexit will only add to Covid-19 woes
Last night’s news that we are now a major step closer to a damaging no-deal Brexit will be extremely unwelcome to the vast number of businesses that will be affected by this decision. Months of chaos caused by Covid-19 have further disrupted supply chains, and provided a worrying preview of ...
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ArticleVolvo Trucks UK & Ireland names new MD
Christian Coolsaet has been appointed MD of Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland.He succeeds Robert Grozdanovski who will move to Gothenburg to take up an appointment as Volvo Trucks’ senior vice president for sales area Europe Central East & East.Coolsaet brings more than 20 years of Volvo experience to the role, ...
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ArticleBoost for Earned Recognition during lockdown, FleetCheck reports
The earliest months of the Covid-19 lockdown saw a marked increase in the number of commercial vehicle fleets adopting the DVSA’s Earned Recognition scheme, FleetCheck has revealed.From March to June, 64% of new corporate customers coming to the fleet management software company cited Earned Recognition as a primary factor, compared ...
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ArticleFree webinar: MAN introduce their new truck generation and TopUsed used vehicle programme
For the first time in 20 year’s MAN Truck & Bus introduces a completely newly developed truck generation, which is consistently oriented towards the changing requirements of the transportation industry and sets new standards for – among other things – assistance systems, driver orientation and digital networking.The new truck generation ...
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ArticleBritish International Freight Association offers free customs training for younger members
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is offering free online customs procedures training for members of its Young Forwarder Network (YFN).The training session, on Wednesday 8 July, will be focused around customs procedure codes and will be available exclusively to members of the YFN.BIFA launched the YFN last year to ...
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ArticleLifetime Achievement winner named in Microlise Driver of the Year Awards 2020
Gary Bellamy (pictured) from Forterra Building Products has been named the Lifetime Achievement winner in this year's Microlise Driver of The Year Awards.The nomination-based awards received more entries than ever before and telematics-based categories contained an initial eligible pool of over 225,000 drivers.The 2020 winners triumphed after a process of ...
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Goldstar Transport faces strike action as it moves to close depot and cut jobs
Goldstar Transport is being threatened with strike action after being accused of using Covid-19 as a “smokescreen” to close its Woolpit depot in Suffolk and change more than 100 drivers’ terms and conditions.However, MD Matthew Ashworth condemned the action this week, insisting it was not supported by the majority of ...