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[ July 16, 2019 ] Morrisons, Wincanton and Unite set for more talks over staff transfer News
[ July 16, 2019 ] LDV begins Milk & More delivery with 159 EVs set to be in place by autumn News
[ July 16, 2019 ] Pall-Ex signs up to Armed Forces Covenant in bid to help veterans and tackle driver shortage News
[ July 16, 2019 ] New Haydock sortation centre to play key role in Amazon’s final mile delivery strategy News
[ July 15, 2019 ] Whistl promotes Evans and Hughes to the board Careers

Morrisons, Wincanton and Unite set for more talks over staff transfer

July 16, 2019 Chris Druce

Unite and Morrisons are set to return to talks later this month in a bid to resolve a dispute over the transfer of drivers and vehicle maintenance staff to 3PL Wincanton, mototransport.co.uk can reveal.

LDV begins Milk & More delivery with 159 EVs set to be in place by autumn

July 16, 2019 Chris Druce

Milk & More has started taking delivery of an order of 159 zero-emission vans from LDV.

Pall-Ex signs up to Armed Forces Covenant in bid to help veterans and tackle driver shortage

July 16, 2019 Carol Millett

Pall-Ex has become the latest logistics business to sign the Armed Forces Covenant in a move aimed at both helping veterans and tackling the industry’s skills shortage.

New Haydock sortation centre to play key role in Amazon’s final mile delivery strategy

July 16, 2019 Carol Millett

Amazon is set to add a key part to its final mile logistics network with the opening of a £68m sortation centre in Haydock in September.

Whistl promotes Evans and Hughes to the board

July 15, 2019 Chris Druce

Whistl has appointed John Evans the company’s head of legal and Gareth Hughes, procurement, property and fleet director at the operator, to its executive board of management.

Consultation countdown underway for Sheffield Clean Air Zone

July 15, 2019 Carol Millett

Hauliers have six weeks to make their views known to Sheffield City Council on its plans to introduce a charging clean air zone (CAZ), which will see non Euro-6 HGVs paying a £50 daily charge to enter the city centre but cars going free.

Earned Recognition ‘bolt on’ will allow hauliers to demonstrate they meet specific client standards

July 15, 2019 Chris Tindall

Operators will be able to demonstrate that they are meeting Earned Recognition standards to specific customers after the DVSA said it was designing a “bolt-on module”.

Volvo Trucks MD brings bus experience to bear on greener trucks

July 12, 2019 Steve Hobson

The major truck importers seem to turn over MDs almost as fast as Premier League football clubs and the latest incumbent at Volvo Trucks Robert Grozdanovski recently took over following Arne Knaben’s five year stint.

Property and Palletforce drives Elddis Transport onward

July 12, 2019 Chris Tindall

Elddis Transport increased its turnover and profit in 2018, despite the County Durham company getting a drubbing from the Beast from the East.

How to get your product in front of 1,000 urban logistics professionals

July 12, 2019 Jamie Dady

Do you want to meet 1,000 urban logistics professionals from across the industry?

LoCITY Fuels in Action helps freight operators understand market for alternative fuels

By Christopher Walton and Colin Barnett A Fuels in Action event at Kempton Park in Surrey last week (20 March) was the ...

Shell opens second hydrogen fuel pump, but remains focused on full ‘mosaic’ of alternative fuels

By the end of 2018, Shell will have opened three new hydrogen refuelling pumps on sites around London.But the fuel giant says ...

Electric vehicle uptake would improve with better distributor and operator collaboration

Improved collaboration between electric vehicle operators and electricity distributors will see a substantial increase of battery-powered vehicles on the roads of London, ...

LoCITY Fuels in Action helps

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Shell opens second hydrogen fuel

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Electric vehicle uptake would improve

Posted by Christopher Walton on Mar 22, 20183

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