All Industry News articles – Page 243
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MT ArticleRoute Monkey target expansion after securing £2m funding package
Scheduling and routeing software company Route Monkey has said it will grow significantly over the next few years after securing a £2m funding package from Clydesdale Bank.The Livingston, West Lothian based company, which counts Yodel, APC Overnight and Bunzl as customers, while supermarket chain Iceland, has adopted Route Monkey’s scheduling ...
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Fee to be introduced for Fors accreditation
Operators will be charged for Fors membership from later this year, although the exact cost has not yet been revealed.It comes after Aecom’s selection by TfL to take on the running of the best practice scheme, which will also see it rolled out nationally.On behalf of Aecom, the CILT, which ...
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MT ArticleFormer Bibby boss nets new business
Iain Speak, former CEO of Bibby Supply Chain Services, has been appointed to two new roles: non-executive director of Suffolk family firm Century Logistics and consultant for Taiwan-based Dimerco Express.Speak will be assisting Century Logistics, an e-fulfilment and warehousing company founded in 1997 by Stepehn and Ann Basey-Fisher, with its ...
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Beverley Bell denies sanctioning other operators' use of CVS fleet management system
Senior traffic commissioner Beverley Bell denied sanctioning the way that Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) was operating its fleet management system for other operators, when she gave evidence at Leeds Crown Court.In November, CVS MD Martin Collins, sales director Richard Gosling and managers Bruce Lawrie and Tim Edwards, pleaded not guilty ...
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MT ArticleAmazon Sunday deliveries quadruple a year since launch
Online retailer Amazon has claimed that the number of Sunday deliveries in its network has quadrupled in the past 12 months.The retailer’s own logistics network began making deliveries seven days a week in January 2014, following a successful trial in London during the previous peak period.Amazon did not disclose how ...
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RHA meets with business secretary to highlight driver shortage issue
The RHA has met with business secretary Vince Cable to highlight the impact the current driver shortage is having on the economy and how it could be addressed.In a meeting last week RHA chief executive Richard Burnett also put across the industry’s need for a government training fund to help ...
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Skills for Logistics begins creditors' voluntary liquidation
Skills for Logistics (SfL) is to begin the process of a creditors’ voluntary liquidation to wind-up its operation.A spokesman for Manchester-based corporate insolvency firm Begbies Traynor, who confirmed the decision to MotorTransport.co.uk, added that a creditors' meeting would be held on 9 February.The company announced earlier this month that SfL ...
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Chancellor invites RHA chief executive to discuss driver shortage
Chancellor George Osborne has invited RHA chief executive Richard Burnett to a “formal roundtable discussion” with the Treasury and DfT to discuss possible government “intervention” to address the HGV driver shortage.The RHA has called for government grants to train UK residents to become HGV drivers rather than see an influx ...
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MT ArticleOperators looking to buy more fleet vehicles this year, than last year, reveals CV Industry report
Operators are more optimistic about their vehicle acquisition strategy in 2015 than they were in 2014, predicting that more new vehicles will be bought this year compared with last year.The findings of the 2015 Overview of the Commercial Vehicle Industry report, produced by MT publisher Road Transport Media on behalf ...
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Longer, more aerodynamic truck cabs held off until 2022 following European vote
Operators will not see longer, more aerodynamic truck cabs for at least another seven years after the European Parliament and EU countries last month agreed to prevent the introduction of such cabs until 2022.The European Commission’s original proposals envisaged longer, shapelier cabs giving better crash performance, fuel-saving aerodynamics and more ...
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2015 Motor Transport Awards deadline extended
The deadline to enter the 2015 Motor Transport Awards has been extended to 27 March so there is still time to enter before our panels of independent, expert judges gather in April to make their deliberations. Here are some hints and tips on how to make sure your entry stands ...
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Fors to be taken national by AECOM
TfL has revealed that consultancy group Aecom is to run Fors on a five-year concession-style contract that will see the best practice scheme taken national.In an announcement today, TfL confirmed Aecom would run the accreditation scheme on a five-year basis as a concessionaire.There is an option to extend the deal ...
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Time to nominate successful women in transport and logistics
The 2015 FTA Everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards recognise the talented women working in transport and logistics.The deadline to nominate a colleague, yourself, a friend or a peer for one of seven categories is 2 February, so to showcase your own achievements, or those of someone who deserves recognition, ...
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MT ArticleTfL disqualifies member from Fors scheme for the first time
Transport for London (TfL) has disqualified a member of the Fors scheme for the first time: Cowan Plant of Hayes. The action came after an Industrial HGV Taskforce (IHTF) operation led to the Middlesex operator having its O-licence revoked, in addition to the company’s transport manager being disqualified indefinitely and ...
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MT ArticleUKWA chief executive Williams to hand over reins to Ward
UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) chief executive Roger Williams is to hand over the reins later this month to his successor, Peter Ward (pictured), following 15 years at the organisation.Williams will continue to work for UKWA until the end of July, heading up key projects including the organisation’s annual lunch and ...
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MT ArticleSkills for Logistics to close down
Skills for Logistics (SfL) is to close down, with the board considering placing the business into administration after pension deficit pressure and a struggle to replace lost government funding for skills initiatives. In an official statement issued today (6 January), SfL said: “The Board of Skills for Logistics (SfL) has ...
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MT ArticleFTA reveals identity of new chief executive
The FTA has revealed that internal candidate David Wells will succeed Theo de Pencier as chief executive from 1 May.Wells, who joined the FTA in 2009 as finance and IT director, subsequently took on additional responsibility for the association's vehicle inspection service, training and the tachograph analysis service.This included the ...
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DfT pushes back end of paper driving licence until June
The DfT has revealed the abolition of the paper driving licence will be delayed until 8 June this year.Motortransport.co.uk reported last year that plans to do away with the paper part of the driving licence from January had been put on hold, after opposition from trade associations concerned it would ...
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MT ArticleTake part in Best Places to Work in Road Transport
Transport operators with a large percentage of drivers on the payroll can still take part in Best Places to Work in Road Transport.Motor Transport, in association with Logistics Job Shop, has launched this major new awards scheme to recognise the best employers in third-party road transport and logistics voted ...
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CVS and Richard Lawson Leeds Crown Court latest
The relationship between Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) and Richard Lawson’s Spirit Auto Logistics and its successor Spirit Motor Transport was further explored on 12 December, when the trial of two directors and two of the management team of CVS, and Lawson, continued at Leeds Crown Court.Last month CVS MD Martin ...