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Creditors of Bedfords Group facing £5m shortfall, according to KPMG
Creditors of Birstall, West Yorkshire-based Bedfords Group could be owed more than £5m, according to estimates by administrators at KPMG.The Palletforce founding member company, which employed 84 staff and specialised in transporting printing materials, packaging and homeware, entered administration in March following cash flow difficulties.Days later, RPL Transport, which was ...
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Union pursuing claims for former Duncan Adams staff over haulier's failure to consult
The Unite union is still pursuing claims on behalf of former employees at Grangemouth haulier Duncan Adams, which entered administration in March.However, regional officer Mark Lyon warned that it could take years for the 50 claims to be processed by the employment tribunal.The union said Duncan Adams had failed to ...
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Lenham Storage expands footprint and strengthens management team after profit fall
Lenham Storage Company has taken on a production and quality director and expanded its geographic footprint with the launch of new subsidiary Lenham Storage (Midlands), which is based in Loughborough.Ian Rose, who was Lenham’s group warehouse manager between December 2012 and May 2014, is returning to the company to take ...
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DHL Supply Chain strike over NFT Distribution switch halted for talks
The Unite union has suspended strike action planned for today (5 June) by 51 warehouse workers at a DHL Supply Chain-run site in West Thurrock, Essex to allow a "window of opportunity for positive talks".The union-represented employees unanimously voted to stage a 24-hour walkout last month over terms and conditions ...
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ArticleEuropa Worldwide Group spends £2m on expanding Dartford hub's storage ready for Brexit
Europa Worldwide Group has spent £2m expanding its Dartford hub to cope with any customs backlog after Brexit.The company, which is celebrating its fourth anniversary at its Dartford headquarters, fast-tracked plans to expand the 86,509sq ft facility to ensure it was "Brexit ready".Under the recently completed expansion programme, the central ...
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ArticleMichael Ellis replaces Jesse Norman as transport minister at DfT
Michael Ellis has been appointed minister of state for transport, taking over the role from Jesse Norman, who has joined the Treasury after two years at the DfT.Ellis previously served as parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from Jan 2018 to May ...
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ArticleParent company pledges support as Hellmann Worldwide Logistics' operating loss deepens
The German parent company of logistics firm Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has pledged to back its UK division until "at least" September 2020, after the Lichfield-based firm saw its operating loss almost double last year. According to its latest annual results for the year to 31 December 2018, the company saw ...
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ArticleBiffa fits live in-cab cameras on two flagship contracts to improve safety
Waste management company Biffa is fitting live cameras to more than 80 vehicles on two major refuse and recycling contracts with East Sussex and Waverley councils.The RXLite live camera system, which is provided by Innovative Safety Systems (ISS), uses wide angle high definition (HD) 720p cameras and an HD in-cab ...
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ArticleFTA and RHA blast Welsh minister's decision to scrap M4 relief road build
The industry's leading trade associations have slammed the Welsh government’s decision to ditch plans for a £1.4m M4 relief road, announced today (4 June).The scheme would have seen a new 14-mile stretch of motorway built, parallel to the existing M4 motorway between J23A at Magor to junction 29 at Castleton, ...
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ArticleDVSA chief enforcer on Earned Recognition and private annual testing
Marian Kitson joined the DVSA as director of enforcement in September 2018 after 32 years with HMRC. Speaking to MT editor Steve Hobson at the Microlise Transport Conference in May, Kitson said the agency’s flagship Earned Recognition scheme for the most compliant operators was going well.“We now have 7% of ...
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Nicholson's Transport ceases trading after being placed into administration
Billingham-based Nicholson’s Transport has been placed into administration and ceased trading, motortransport.co.uk can reveal.Nicholson Group – the parent company - is not affected with its general haulage, Hiab, warehousing and pick and pack services continuing.However the business’s work for The Pallet Network (TPN) and The Hazchem Network has ended.Nicholson’s Transport ...
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ArticleNew book reveals inside story of how TNT and Murdoch broke the union stranglehold over Fleet Street
A new book telling the inside story of how TNT UK worked with newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch to break the union stranglehold on Fleet Street has already been reprinted.‘The man who never sleeps’ is the autobiography of Tom Bell OBE, then MD of TNT UK, who famously ran trucks across ...
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ArticleOver-ambitious expansion plans contributed to Mark Priestley SDT demise
Rapid expansion and a change in the way invoices were generated were behind the failure of Slough-based Mark Priestley SDT, according to its administrator.In a report to creditors, SFP said that during 2017, turnover at the transport company more than doubled to £9m as it took on whole contract management ...
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Truck drivers 'worst affected' by air pollution
HGV drivers have the highest overall exposure to air pollution and yet are being overlooked in the air quality debate, according to scientists at King’s College London.Research by environmental charity Hubbub in cooperation with the college and The Times newspaper examined how poor air quality affected people living and working ...
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ArrowXL first two-man delivery company to use PostTag to improve delivery accuracy
Two-man home delivery specialist ArrowXL has started using PostTag to improve the speed and accuracy of its deliveries.PostTag provides far more detailed and accurate location data than postcodes; an analysis of over half a million UK addresses by PostTag shows 45% of postcodes are inaccurate by almost the length of ...
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Hauliers must use apprenticeship funding or lose it to the Treasury, warns training provider
Millions of pounds of unspent apprenticeship funding is in danger of being diverted into the Treasury’s coffers, with many operators unaware that they can transfer a quarter of their funding to subcontractors to help pay for their apprenticeship schemes.The warning came from Tony Higgins, MD of SP Training, a Carlisle ...
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ArticleCross Transport refreshes fleet with 56 DAFs to service its Amazon work
Cross Transport has taken delivery of 56 DAF XF tractor units to facilitate its contract with Amazon.The full-service contract hire deal from Asset Alliance Group is valued at around £4.5m and replaces older assets on its fleet with new tractors spec’d with Super Space cabs.The DAFs will cover 140,000km a ...
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Eddie Stobart Logistics wins five year bulk transport deal with Lallemand
Eddie Stobart Logistics (ESL) has extended its reach in the bulk sector after clinching a five year deal with Lallemand Biofuels and Distilled Spirits (LBDS).The contract with LBDS begins this month (2 June) and will see ESL deliver logistics support for the LBDS bulk cream yeast business for the UK’s ...
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Sign up now for our webinar explaining how smart tachograph technology will affect you
Motortransport.co.uk's sister title Commercial Motor is running a free webinar session, which will explain everything you need to know about smart tachograph technology.Next month sees the biggest change in tachograph legislation in 12 years, with the introduction of the new generation of on-board, mandatory digital recorders to enforce drivers’ hours ...
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DX Group hit by loss of long-term customer Her Majesty’s Passport Office
DX Group has suffered a setback after learning its long standing deal to provide a secure delivery service to Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) will end next year.In a statement to the stock market, loss-making DX Group said that following a tender process its bid, which was based on ‘commercially ...