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Download Chevron Report
This annual report, now in its fourth year, offers an in-depth analysis of the UK commercial vehicle and road freight transport industry. We analyse the statistics, the trends and, crucially, the attitudes and issues which inform the buying process. While the report is targeted at anyone involved in this crucial ...
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Power Players 2013: Beverley Bell, Senior Traffic Commissioner
5) Beverley Bell, Senior Traffic CommissionerBell has continued to champion the independence of the TCs and has rarely stayed out of the headlines. Make no bones about it, Bell knows her status and power in the industry and is not afraid to use.Last year she had no qualms about taking ...
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ArticleCost control and volume growth sees turnover and profit up at Rhys Davies Logistics
Rhys Davies & Sons saw both turnover and pre-tax profit rise last year, through a mixture of cost control and volume growth.The Cardiff-headquartered operator saw turnover for the year ended 31 August 2013 rise by almost 4% to £39.3m (2012: £37.8m), accounts published to Companies House reveal.Pre-tax profit at the ...
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ArticleCity Link refreshes trailer fleet with 86 Cartwright double-deckers
City Link appointed administrators on Christmas EveCity Link has ordered 86 Cartwright-built double-deck trailers as part of its fleet replacement cycle.The operator has so far received 20 of the bespoke trailers, which are being supplied on a seven-year contract hire deal with Fraikin.The trailers were delivered in December, with the ...
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Met extends Operation Safeway
The Metropolitan Police Service has extended Operation Safeway by another week in a bid to make sure all road users obey the law of the land.Operation Safeway launched on 25 November and was due to run until the 3 January 2014. It came in response to a series of cyclist ...
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ArticleNFT takes the path of least tyre resistance
NFT Distribution is to fit low rolling resistance tyres across its fleet of 430 tractor units and 550 trailers.The operator has used Bandvulc tyres since 2010 and after extensive trials has become the first fleet to adopt Bandvulc’s new Dynamic tyre range, complemented by new low rolling resistance tyre brands ...
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ArticlePower Players 2013: Robert Goodwill MP
Robert Goodwill MP, transport minister6) Robert Goodwill MPAppointed to the role of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport in October 2013, Robert Goodwill has certainly had to hit the ground running. He has a flurry of controversial issues to tackle from the get-go: the cyclist versus lorry safety debate, ...
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Morrisons looks to the future with new channels to market
On 10 January Morrisons launches its first online retail offering across the Midlands – a tie-up with Ocado – making it one of the last of the big supermarkets to enter the world of home delivery.It was the culmination of months of change at Morrisons that has seen it make ...
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Yodel and APC reveal successful Christmas peak
Yodel and APC Overnight have revealed record volumes over the Christmas period, after investing in infrastructure and staff in 2013.Yodel handled over 14 million parcels in the 24 days leading up to Christmas, while network APC reported a 27% increase in year-on-year volumes for its busiest week to just under ...
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ArticlePower Players 2013: Siim Kallas, Transport Minster, European Commission
7) Siim Kallas, Transport Minster, European CommissionWhile 4m trailer heights is a problem that doesn’t seem to want to go away, Kallas and the European Commission are looking to the future. He wants to simplify cabotage rules and further liberalise the European market for road transport. And he wants to ...
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Morrisons launches food home deliveries
Morrisons has launched its online food offering, with deliveries across the Midlands due to start on 10 January.The supermarket expects to deliver to around half of the country by the beginning of 2015 using a fleet of Morrisons-liveried home delivery vehicles.The launch of Morrisons.com follows the signing of a 25-year ...
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Overview of the UK Commercial Vehicle Industry: 2014 Edition
Overview of the UK Commercial Vehicle Industry: 2014 EditionStop press: the 2015 edition of the report is now available.In partnership withPublished by Road Transport Media, January 2014, in partnership with Texaco Lubricants and with associated sponsorship from Continental Tyres.This annual report, now in its fourth year, offers an in-depth analysis ...
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ArticleWinter is coming... and the UK is ready and waiting
Winter is coming, and compared to a few years ago at least, it appears that the UK is actually prepared.Certainly the Transport Committee’s Ready and waiting? report into winter resilience, which is published today, is largely positive, something that can’t always be said (see last year’s Vosa report).Indeed, the general ...
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Power Players 2013: Gavin Chappell, supply chain director, Asda
8) Gavin Chappell, supply chain director, Asda Part of the giant Walmart family, Asda vies with Sainsbury’s for second position in the UK grocery retailing pecking order with annual sales of £23bn and 400 stores. With 23 DCs around the UK and a fleet of nearly 1,000 vehicles, Asda likes ...
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Gregory Distribution snapped up Interoute Transport Services for £75,000
Gregory Distribution Limited snapped up the business, assets and goodwill of collapsed Oxfordshire firm Interoute Transport Services for just £75,000, according to the firm’s administrators. In a progress report, published last month, Quantuma adminstrators Carl Jackson and Kelly Mitchell stated that following their appointment on 17 May 2013 they closed ...
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MT Tracker 2013 - year in review
2013 was a year of moves forward for every transport firm listed on the Stock Exchange. And while we lost CityLink (to a management buy-out), we gained Royal Mail - and a whole heap of market capitalisation. So without further ado - let's find out who the big winners were!For ...
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ArticleA year in the life of pallet networks: 2013
Having achieved record volume last year 2013 is set to be another record breaker, with the UK’s nine pallet networks on course to handle the most pallets through their systems that they have ever done since the launch of the concept two decades ago.The latest data from the Association of ...
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ArticlePower Players 2013: Ian Wainwright, head of freight and fleet delivery, TfL
Ian Wainwright, TfL head of freight and fleet9) Ian Wainwright, head of freight and fleet delivery, TfLWith 18 years logistics industry experience under his belt, Ian Wainwright understands freight. As road freight programme manager at TfL during the lead up to the London 2012 Games, he bridged the gap between ...
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DHL Express delivers 1,300 instruments for New Year's Day parade
DHL Express has delivered hundreds instruments for US and Panama-based high school and university marching bands participating in the London New Year’s Day Parade today (1 January).More than 8,500 performers, including the 20 bands that DHL is providing the transport for, will participate in the event, which begins ...
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ArticlePower Players 2013: Humberto Delgado Rosa - DG Climate Action, European Commission
10) Humberto Delgado Rosa - Director for adaptation to climate change and low carbon technology, DG Climate Action, European CommissionWho we here you say? Delgado Rosa is one of the most influential European policy wonks you will never have heard of.When asking the question: ‘Where next for heavy truck ...