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ArticleNagel Langdons increases profits and turnover
Food transport provider Nagel Langdons increased revenues by 7% to £160.9m in the year ending 31 December 2019.Pre-tax profit also grew, by 15% to £8.2m compared with £7.1m in 2018.The temperature controlled haulage and warehousing business said it had grown organically for several years and intended to continue growing by ...
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RHA seeks evidence of problems facing hauliers to support lobbying
The RHA is actively exploring options to help hauliers through the COVID-19 crisis with government ministers. These include immediate cashflow injections, enforced payment holidays with leasing companies, banks and fuel suppliers and further measures to protect employees’ wages to safeguard our critical driver workforce both now and for when volume ...
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ArticlePremier Logistics (UK) returns to profit after financial restructure
CM 30.10.14Latest figures show that Premier Logistics (UK) increased turnover by 2% to £10.2m as the haulier battled its way out of its Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA).For the year ending 31 October 2019, the company also returned to the black, with a pre-tax profit of £2.3m, compared with a loss ...
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ArticleArsonists target Iceland deliveries despite COVID-19 lockdown
Police in Bristol have condemned the actions of arsonists who torched two Iceland delivery vans.At a time when the country was effectively in lockdown, Avon and Somerset Police said it was “beyond belief” that the vehicles were destroyed by fire.The force said this was one of several incidents of arson ...
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ArticleGiving staff leave on 80% of salary won't work for haulage sector, critics claim
Hauliers have demanded the government explains how its system for paying employees 80% of their salaries is going to work following concerns that it isn’t flexible enough to deal with their industry.Ian Barclay, operations director at Roger Warnes Transport in Kings Lynn, said the idea of furloughing its workforce – ...
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ArticleAdministrators of RPL Transport pursue legal claim linked to price-fixing cartel
A legal claim by the administrators of RPL Transport relating to a truck manufacturers’ price-fixing cartel is being pursued while the company enters liquidation.The Milton Keynes-based operator followed parent Bedfords Group into administration in April 2019 and insolvency experts at KPMG have spent the year pursuing debts and realising assets.In ...
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ArticleYodel reverses decision to sack security staff and replace them with unlicensed personnel
Yodel has reversed its decision to sack licensed security staff at its Hatfield depot and allegedly try to replace them with lower paid non-Security Industry Authority (SIA) licenced personnel.The decision has been welcomed by the GMB union who said it was essential the company followed good industrial relations practice to ...
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ArticleCOVID-19: P&O Ferries ramps up Calais-Dover freight operation
P&O Ferries has strengthened its freight operations on the Calais-Dover crossing to maintain the flow of goods during the COVID-19 crisis.The company's workforce in the Port of Calais are taking on new roles in freight handling to keep food, medicines and other goods flowing.The check-in and loading process has also ...
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ArticleCOVID-19: "Help sectors under most pressure," transport lawyer urges hauliers
A specialist transport lawyer has urged hauliers to switch strategy if their work isn’t essential to the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak.He advised operators with spare capacity to offer their services to the sectors that needed it most, including supermarkets and pharmaceuticals.Transport workers are among those on a government list ...
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Renewable fuels for combustion engines the quickest way to decarbonise HGVs
Renewable fuels are "one of the most rapid and economically viable" ways to decarbonise HGVs, according to the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP).Its new 'Renewable fuels guide' says these green fuels can immediately cut greenhouse gas emissions from commercial vehicles for which few other solutions are currently available to help ...
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IR35 will only level the LGV driver pay playing field
Given the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting likelihood of recession, we are likely to find that the LGV driver shortage becomes more of a challenge than ever before.As a result Driver Require feels that it is still relevant to maintain awareness of the potential impact of a driver shortage and ...
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MT Awards postponed to 27 August
Unfortunately but inevitably because of the ongoing COVID-19 situation the Motor Transport Awards 2020 will be postponed from the 1 July 2020 to the 27 August 2020.We are very grateful to have been able to make this decision with the full support and understanding of Grosvenor House and our sponsor ...
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ArticleGMB London calls for social distancing measures for refuse staff
Reuse services union GMB London has called for immediate social distancing measures to be put in place to ensure the safety of refuse service staff.Despite new government lock-down measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, crews have reportedly been instructed to carry on work as normal, which the union said "cannot be ...
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ArticleCullimore Group looks to a changing future while keeping its family values
Formed in Whitminster in 1927 as Moreton C Cullimore, the Cullimore Group’s two-tone green trucks have been a familiar sight on Gloucester’s roads for over 90 years.The current MD Moreton Cullimore – who shares the same first name as his late grandfather and founder of the business – has gradually ...
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ArticleCOVID-19: FTA requests extension to transition period for leaving EU and suspension of clean air zones and Direct Vision Standard
The FTA has requested an extension to the current transition period for leaving the EU in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic.It has also asked ministers to consider suspending the implementation of other legislation which will affect logistics operators in the short term.This includes the expansion of the London-wide Low ...
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ArticleGazeley to almost double its Magna Park logistics site
Gazeley has announced plans to expand its Magna Park Lutterworth logistics park from 9 million sq ft to 16 million sq ft.The company has the potential to increase the southern side of the park by 2.8 million sq ft and is already developing three speculative units of 300,000 sq ft, ...
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ArticleIndustry bodies hit out over lack of hygiene facilities for drivers and delivery workers
Transport industry business groups have demanded that adequate hygiene facilities, including hot and cold running water, are available to all drivers and warehouse operatives delivering to, or collecting from business premises.In a joint statement, FTA chief executive David Wells, RHA chief executive Richard Burnett and Unite national officer Adrian Jones ...
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ArticleMotor Transport to go digital-only as printers close down
Due to the current coronavirus crisis we may have to distribute copies of Motor Transport digitally for a short period.This will mean that we would send you a link to the magazine via email. We have email addresses for most registered readers but if you think you may not have ...
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ArticleCOVID-19: Trailer manufacturer Don-Bur hibernates and furloughs workforce
Trailer manufacturer Don-Bur has put the business on ice for the next three weeks and furloughed the majority of its workforce.The move aims to ensure staff and customer safety during the COVI-19 pandemic and comes in the light of 5.4% of the company’s 500-strong staff having gone into precautionary self-isolation.In ...
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ArticleProtect vulnerable workers or risk prosecution, operators warned
Operators allowing or pressuring vulnerable employees to work during the COVID-19 pandemic could face HSE prosecution, a leading law firm warned this week.The warning was made during a webinar on the impact of new government emergency measures to tackle the pandemic on operators’ businesses.The webinar, organised by law firm Backhouse ...