All Industry News articles – Page 140
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MT ArticleNew year sees commercial vehicle manufacturing continue to slide
The ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Brexit fallout and weak demand all conspired to result in the fourth consecutive month of decline in UK commercial vehicle production, according to the SMMT.UK CV manufacturing fell 31.5% in January, with 5,616 units rolling off the production lines, marking the worst start ...
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MT ArticleNew ruling on deliveries to Northern Ireland will have "severe impact", Parcelhero warns
Draconian measures that will significantly increase red tape and delays for goods sent between the UK and Northern Ireland will go ahead on 1 April, after the government failed to extend a grace period.A meeting of the UK-EU Joint Committee this week ended without agreement on a waiver of customs ...
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MT ArticleGovernment urged to repair key Scottish road link after landslips lead to record breaking level of closures
Business leaders in Scotland are demanding the government commits to fixing a notorious stretch of road on the A83 plagued by major landslips.The road, near the Rest and Be Thankful in the Highlands, is a key transport artery that provides vital links to communities across Argyll and Bute and connects ...
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MT ArticleNew Crewe logistics park will create 300 jobs
One of the biggest speculatively developed sites in Crewe is about to begin construction and is expected to provide around 300 jobs on completion.Developer Panattoni said ‘Crewe 305’ on the Crewe Commercial park would include 27 dock doors, five level access doors and a yard with parking for 49 HGVs.The ...
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MT ArticleNew all lanes running motorway plan branded "arrogant and reckless"
The decision to remove the hard shoulder on 10 miles of the M6 and turn it into an extra lane reveals the government’s “reckless disregard” for the public’s safety, according to a road safety campaigner.Claire Mercer, whose husband was struck and killed by an HGV on a smart motorway, warned ...
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MT ArticleImmigration service detains 18 stowaways after new refrigerated truck incident
Police rescued 18 people from the back of a refrigerated lorry near Peterborough on Tuesday (23 February), less than a week after a similar incident on the A14.Officers in Cambridgeshire said they received a call from an HGV driver who had noticed the people on his vehicle and was concerned ...
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UK and EU must agree three key moves to ease NI shipping delays, Logistics UK demands
Logistics UK is calling for the government and the EU to agree three key changes to speed up the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and the UK.The call was made last week at a government roundtable attended by Logistics UK’s Northern Ireland policy manager Seamus Leheny and chaired by ...
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MT ArticleTraining to help HGV drivers avoid cargo theft launched by NAVCIS and surveillance experts AnteVorte
The National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NAVCIS) has joined forces with surveillance experts AnteVorte Group to give HGV drivers training to avoid becoming victims of freight crime.The course launches as hauliers continue to be dogged by high levels of cargo theft this year.Latest figures from NAVCIS, which is the police ...
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MT ArticlePolice track down refrigerated truck after desperate phone calls from trapped stowaways
A hunt for a refrigerated lorry on the A14 and M11 this week began after three men called the police to say they were suffocating in the back and struggling to breathe.The vehicle, thought to have travelled from France, was eventually found at Brampton Hut services just before 4.30pm on ...
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MT ArticleWebfleet Solutions enhances PRO Driver Terminal with new features
Webfleet Solutions has upgraded its PRO Driver Terminal, the PRO 8475, which it said would give fleet operators improved workflow efficiency, enhance customer service and boost productivity.The upgrade includes LTE connectivity and Google services, as well as combining features such as order management and two-way communication between drivers and fleet ...
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MT ArticleRadiohead join industry call for a fair deal for UK concert hauliers
Musicians have joined forces with concert hauliers to urge Boris Johnson to ensure the survival of the events haulage industry amid new post-Brexit trade restrictions.In a letter to the prime minister, the group, which includes luminaries from the music industry, said he needed to secure a “cultural easement” to allow ...
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MT ArticleFORS cuts subscription fee to help hauliers
FORS is reducing its annual subscription fee for members from next month in a move aimed at helping hauliers during the pandemic.The reduction, for new and existing members, is based on fleet size and means an operator with between six and 10 HGVs will see the fee cut by 4.8%; ...
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MT ArticleHauliers "90% border-ready", say Portsmouth police as Brexit operation is downscaled
Police in Hampshire said “a massive effort” from haulage operators meant it would be downscaling its A31 HGV triage operation early.The EU Exit strategy, known as Operation Transmission, involved lorries pulling off the motorway network and getting their papers checked in advance of reaching Portsmouth International Port.But with eight of ...
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MT ArticleRent DVS-compliant trucks to avoid heavy fines, hauliers told
HGV operators not yet compliant with the Direct Vision Standard (DVS) should consider renting trucks to avoid thousands of pounds in fines, according to Enterprise Flex-E-Rent.Following concerns raised by telematics provider SmartWitness that with only days to go, less than 20% of vehicles comply with the DVS, the CV rental ...
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MT ArticleSlump in HGV registrations blamed on Covid and bumper 2019
New HGV registrations plummeted by more than 32% last year, according to SMMT figures.The decline, which led to the weakest demand since 2010, was attributed not only to the coronavirus pandemic but also a bumper 2019, when new smart tachograph legislation prompted a 12.6% increase in registrations.The figures showed that ...
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MT ArticleScania 540 S wins two comparison tests run by European trade press
Scania's 540 S tractor has come top of two comparison tests run in Germany by European trade magazines.The manufacturer won both the 1000 Punkte Test (1000 Point Test) and European Truck Challenge (ETC).The two tests are said to be among the most established for commercial heavy trucks in the worldCab-related ...
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MT ArticlePlans for Peterborough logistics park could create 150 jobs, says developer Firethorn Trust
Firethorn Trust is looking to build a 500,000sq ft logistics park in Peterborough with plans to open it in the summer of 2022.The £60m Kingston Park development is expected to create 150 jobs, according to the company.Peter Mather, a partner at Firethorn Trust, said: “Peterborough is one of the fastest ...
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MT ArticleDAF Trucks grows market share as demand rises
DAF Trucks has delivered the second largest market share its history.Last year saw it register 37,580 trucks in a total European heavy-duty market of 230,400 vehicles, resulting in a share of 16.3% (2019: 16.2%).In the same period, DAF Trucks’ market share of the European medium-duty truck market, which totalled 41,400 ...
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MT ArticleRHA offers TIR webinar to members looking to avoid customs problems
Hauliers looking to avoid post-Brexit border disruption are invited to an RHA seminar on the TIR international customs transit system tomorrow (17 February).TIR, which operates across all EU countries and beyond, helps hauliers to avoid the use of national transit procedures through the use of customs-sealed containers.It is operated by ...
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MT ArticleHMRC publishes advice on how to meet new tax rules on self-employed drivers
Advice aimed at helping operators stay on the right side of new tax laws has been published by HMRC today (15 February).The briefing document sets out how it will monitor organisations engaging drivers and other contractors who work through their own limited company when new tax rules kick in.Under the ...