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Industry news – Page 208
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SEB cooks up new deal with Norbert Dentressangle
Domestic appliance supplier Groupe SEB has renewed its storage and distribution contract with Norbert Dentressangle for a further two years. The firm, which owns brands including Tefal, Rowenta, Moulinex and Krups, supplies a wide range of kitchen appliances, cookware and accessories. Some are distributed to major homeware retailers, while others ...
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FTA urges government to protect infrastructure in Spending Review
The FTA has called on the government to protect infrastructure spending when it publishes its Spending Review this Wednesday (26 June).The review will cover the spending period starting from April 2015, and the FTA has urged chancellor George Osborne to maintain investment in transport infrastructure to ensure it can cope ...
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ArticleBedfords "in good health" despite profit drop
West-Yorkshire haulier Bedfords saw a 67% year-on-year drop in pre-tax profit in its most recent financial year, despite a 6.2% rise in turnover.For the year-ending 30 September 2012 pre-tax profit at Bedfords Holdings – which comprises of transport arm Bedfords as well as Linq Alliance - fell to £300,597, from ...
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UK Warehousing Association warns over "draconian" excise penalties
“Draconian” sanctions are increasingly being imposed on firms in the supply chain who make honest mistakes when dealing with non-duty-paid goods, the United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) has warned.The UKWA said “crippling” duty assessments and fines were increasingly being levied on firms who make any procedural error relating to duty-suspended ...
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ArticleConsultation into exempting mechanics from Driver CPC welcomed
The RHA and FTA have welcomed a consultation into exempting mechanics that drive goods vehicles to test centres from the scope of the Driver CPC.The DSA launched the consultation after the associations wrote to roads minister Stephen Hammond, expressing concerns that the estimated 30,000 technicians nationwide would not be able ...
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Vosa and Driver Standards Agency merger makes sense
Both the RHA and FTA have welcomed the news that Vosa and the DSA are to merge into a single government agency from next year.Services ranging from vehicle testing to driving tests will be handled by an as-yet un-named agency from 2014 but the DfT said that all users of ...
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Severn Crossing tolls set to stay until at least 2020
A reduction in charges for using the Severn Crossing looks further away than ever, after transport minister Stephen Hammond reiterated the government’s intention to maintain the tolls after the crossing reverts to public ownership in 2018. Speaking to the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee on 18 June, Hammond said ...
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Vosa needs to target operators in grey band
Over half of LGV operators have a grey Vosa operator compliance risk score (OCRS) for traffic enforcement – meaning that Vosa has insufficient data to award them a red, amber or green score.The grey band was introduced in October last year to replace the system of giving operators with whom ...
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ArticleHermes boss to give keynote speech at Everywoman leadership conference
Carole WoodheadCarole Woodhead, CEO of Hermes, has been named as the keynote speaker at this year’s Everywoman in Transport & Logistics Leadership Academy.Taking place at the Daventry Court Hotel, Northamptonshire, on 10 September, the one-day event is aimed at future female leaders already working in the logistics and freight industry.A ...
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ArticleNew safety system for all light CVs from 2015
All new light commercial vehicles in Europe under 3.5t will have to be equipped to make an automatic call to emergency services in the event of an accident from 2015.The EU has legislated to introduce the system, called eCall, to all passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. The GPS-linked phone ...
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ArticleRenault launches new Euro-6 range
Renault Trucks has launched its long-awaited Euro-6 range of trucks at a glitzy two-day event in Lyon in front of almost 10,000 staff, operators, dealers and press.The decision to completely replace its entire range from 10t to 44t at once is risky, but the firm and its parent Volvo are ...
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ArticleDfT plans to offer longer semi-trailers on first come, first served basis
The DfT will offer longer semi-trailers on a first come, first served basis before next year, after admitting the current timescale for getting the trial's 1,800 units onto the UK's roads will not be met.With around six months to go until the deadline to put the 1,800-plus trailers (at 14.6m ...
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ArticlePulford focuses on Pallet-Track special projects
Pallet Track hub, WolverhamptonPallet-Track has appointed Mark Pulford, who has 14 years’ experience in the pallet network market, to head up a number of special projects.Pulford, who left his role as operations director at rival Palletline in February, was previously director of operations at Pall-Ex.He joins Pallet-Track Services, a ...
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Industry gives cautious welcome to cabotage change
The industry has broadly welcomed the European Commission’s (EC) decision to drop plans to lift cabotage restrictions, but said it wants the current rules to be more rigorously enforced.Brian Yeardley Continental MD Kevin Hopper said more needs to be done in the UK to ensure foreign operators’ work is being ...
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ArticleThe Pallet Network's new hub begins to take shape
The Pallet Network’s (TPN) new hub at Prologis Park Midpoint in Minworth is taking shape ahead of its planned opening next year. The new hub, next to TPN’s current home, is about 50,000ft² bigger, at 367,500ft².TPN MD Adam Leonard said its real advantage would be significantly increased parking space, with ...
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Senior TC Beverley Bell slams Vosa
Senior Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell has lambasted Vosa for “not targeting the serially and seriously non-compliant”, and taking the easy route by going after “nice, but incompetent, small operators”.The allegations were made before the Transport Select Committee as part of its on-going inquiry into the work of Vosa back in ...
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M6 closed for 12 hours after fatal accident
The eastbound carriageway of the M6 was closed for almost 12 hours on Monday (28 May) after a fatal accident involving a car and three LGVs, the Highways Agency has confirmed. The incident, which occurred at 10.48am between junction 1 of the M6 and the M1 motorway at junction ...
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ArticlePetition calling for oil price investigation draws 32,000 signatures
A petition calling for a full investigation into possible price fixing in the UK road fuels market has generated over 32,000 signatures.The petition, set up by fuel price campaign group Fair Fuel UK (FFUK) in mid-May in the wake of a series of raids by EU regulators on firms involved ...
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ArticleForth crossing changes will not lead to fresh tolls
The establishment of a new entity to manage the Forth Road Bridge and the new Forth crossing will not give rise to the reintroduction of tolls there, a spokesman for the current crossing operator has confirmed.Scotland’s parliament passed a bill to set up a new company to manage the crossings ...
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ArticleRegulators and operators share the stage at Microlise conference
Over 400 delegates gathered at Nottingham University for the 2013 Microlise Transport Conference to hear a diverse mix of speakers – introduced by FairFuelUk spokesman Quentin Willson - discuss topics ranging from compliance and enforcement to using technology to improve operational efficiency.Setting the scene, RHA chief executive Geoff Dunning said ...