All Industry News articles – Page 266
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MT ArticleFairFuelUK prepares for face-to-face with the Treasury
FairFuelUK (FFUK) has secured a meeting with chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, on Monday (29 October) to discuss the 3ppl duty rise planned for January.The meeting will include senior Treasury officials and RHA chief executive Geoff Dunning, and will focus on the findings of economic research funded by ...
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MT ArticleNews Extra: Demise of the backload?
Backload rates are so bad that some operators are wondering if they’re worth taking.Is the era of backloads coming to an end? It certainly sounds like it for some operators, judging by comments MT has heard recently. The issue, of course, is that the rates being handed out for many ...
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MT ArticleLorry road user charge details revealed
The lorry road user charge is moving closer to fruition, with transport minister Stephen Hammond scheduled to set out the details of the government’s proposed HGV Road User Levy Bill this afternoon (23 October) in a parliamentary debate.Hammond is using a ‘ways and means’ motion to get the bill heard ...
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MT Article"No criminal activity" at Driver CPC centre
After a five-month investigation, the DSA has found “no evidence of criminal activity” after a JAUPT-approved Driver CPC course that lasted less than five hours was logged as seven hours on the DSA database.An undercover reporter working for MT attended the £40 course in Sittingbourne, Kent, in January 2012. After ...
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MT ArticleCo-op confirms 250 job losses in consolidation move
The Co-operative Group has confirmed that a significant number of staff will take redundancy, following its move to consolidate two DCs.Its Wellington, Somerset and Portbury, Bristol DCs will merge into a new £20m regional distribution centre at Avonmouth.A spokeswoman for the grocery retailer told MT: "As planned, as the new ...
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MT ArticleHMRC shuts down two diesel laundering plants
Two diesel laundering plants capable together of producing more than 15 million litres of illicit fuel a year have been discovered and closed in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland.Officers from HMRC and the Police Service of Northern Ireland found one plant hidden in a shed at a private address in Cullyhanna; ...
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MT ArticleCosts expert warns over haulage rates
Some haulage contractors should be charging over four times the rate they are currently being paid, a prominent costs expert has warned.Brian Fish, MD of logistics and transport consultancy DFF International – who compiles the RHA’s annual cost tables and previously ran family haulage firm Joseph Fish & Sons – ...
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MT ArticleFuel price transparency bill makes it to next stage
MPs have backed Robert Halfon's private members bill tabled today (16 October), which calls for the tax take on fuel to be printed on every forecourt receipt.The Conservative MP for Harlow, and founder of the PetrolPromise campaign, is calling for the complete tax breakdown (duty and VAT) to be printed ...
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MT ArticleRHA gets behind Robert Halfon's call for fuel price transparency
The RHA has said that if MPs don't back a private members bill being tabled today (16 October), which calls for the tax take on fuel to be printed on every forecourt receipt, they will need to provide a clear reason why they have vetoed it.Robert Halfon, Conservative MP for ...
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MT ArticleURTU men bailed again
The United Road Transport Union (URTU) men at the centre of a probe into Driver CPC training activities have had their bail extended yet again.The seven men include general secretary Bob Monks, national officer Mel Thornton and regional officers Lee Pimbley and Mike Billingham.They were originally arrested on 15 February ...
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MT ArticleLove Logistics livery initiative fails to find traction
The bosses of Abbey Logistics Group and Suckling Transport are disappointed that their efforts to promote the industry with a Love Logistics livery on their vehicles haven’t been embraced by other operators.Six months after the Love Logistics liveries were introduced, inspired by former Labour spin-doctor Alastair Campbell’s suggestion at an ...
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MT ArticleNorbert Dentressangle takes Liberty
Norbert Dentressangle (ND) has picked up a new European warehousing and distribution deal with cable company Liberty Global.ND will establish Liberty's European DC in Venray, the Netherlands, along with a number of regional DCs, the first of which opened last month in Switzerland.The agreement builds on an existing partnership ND ...
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MT ArticleEx-military personnel sought to plug logistics skills gap
Skills for Logistics (SfL) has launched a scheme to entice former armed forces personnel into the logistics industry.SfL has been awarded £1.4m from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills’ Employer Investment Fund to attract up to 1,000 people leaving the services into a job within logistics.Through its Military ...
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MT ArticleNews Extra: A golden future for skills?
Between now until 2017 the logistics sector will need to find half a million recruits, simply to replace those forecast to leave the sector due to retirement. Put another way, this equates to replacing a fifth of the logistics sector’s current workforce, a considerable challenge by any measure.Last month’s launch ...
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MT ArticleFresh supermarket win for Wincanton
Wincanton has won a multi-million pound, five-year contract to set up and run a new DC in London for supermarket giant Morrisons.The deal will see Wincanton handle transport and warehousing for Morrisons from a 100,000sq-ft cross-dock facility to open in Feltham, west London early next year.The Feltham DC will be ...
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MT ArticleNo easy answer to price pressures, say operators
The industry needs to re-examine its relationship with its customers if it is to end the rate squeeze, according to Bullet Express MD David McCutcheon.Responding to news last week that despite growth in the pallet sector, rates remained under acute pressure, McCutcheon said: “As a haulier of more than 22 ...
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MT ArticleLogistics Guild launched by SfL
Skills for Logistics (SfL) has started the roll-out of its Logistics Guild and revealed it will be free to join.The modern day guild, which MT revealed had secured funding last month (17 September), is described as “a member network run by members”.It is intended to meet the development needs of ...
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MT ArticleCulina goes nuts over new shared-user contract
Liverpool-based nut processor and packer Trigon Snacks has awarded a new contract for warehousing and distribution of its brands, including Planters and BigD, to Culina.Under the deal, Trigon products will be stored at Culina’s Middleton depot, near Manchester, and delivered using a shared user-model to wholesalers and retailers throughout the ...
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MT ArticleFFUK repeats calls for duty rethink as fuel sales plummet
Campaign group FairFuelUK (FFUK) has made a fresh call for the Chancellor to scrap January’s planned 3ppl rise in fuel duty, after figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) showed a sharp fall in fuel consumption.Sales of transport fuels fell 6.3% in the second quarter compared to ...
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MT ArticleKuehne + Nagel and DHL get involved with labelling initiative
Kuehne + Nagel and DHL Tradeteam are working with Costa owner and customer Whitbread on an initiative to standardise product information, removing cost and complexity from the supply chain.The project is running in parallel with the Premier Inn-owner’s involvement with the Food Service Directors' Group (FSDG’s), which also includes Brakes, ...