All Industry News articles – Page 85
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ArticleFraikin opens service support centre
The new 24/7 Service Support Centre underlines the company’s renewed emphasis on bringing its maintenance and breakdown support in-house, moving away from using third-party contractors for out-of-hours calls.Fraikin has opened a 24/7 service support centre at its Coventry headquarters, underlining its renewed emphasis on bringing maintenance and breakdown support inhouse.Caroline ...
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ArticleTeletrac Navman launches road safety data dashboard to improve driver behaviour
Teletrac Navman has developed a new online dashboard using government figures, which gives operators an insight into what influences road safety and driving behaviours.The road safety dashboard assimilates data from the Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain report, which captures all personal injury, accident and casualty statistics on public roads.Teletrac ...
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ArticleNew warning over loading shovels after nine fatal accidents in four years
The traffic commissioners said operators of wheeled loading shovels must ensure they have looked at new guidance issued on the safety of their operation, after nine fatalities in the last four years.Six of the deaths were within the waste and recycling sector and the health and safety executive (HSE) said ...
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Article"No major supply chain issues," major supermarkets insist
Supermarkets said they were confident their supply chains were robust enough to ensure customer requirements were fulfilled in the run-up to Christmas.Reporting its interim results for the 28 weeks ending 18 September 2021, Sainsbury’s chief executive Simon Roberts acknowledged the industry faced labour and supply chain challenges.However, he added: “Our ...
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Article"Scrap misguided Covid restrictions and fix this mess," urges International Road Transport Union
The International Road Transport Union (IRU) is demanding that governments across Europe drop “misguided” Covid restrictions and act to alleviate driver shortages if they are to resolve a growing supply chain crisis.The IRU’s goods transport council, which represents more than three million logistics operators globally, said delays would stretch into ...
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ArticleTop brands back Road Transport Expo 2022
Road Transport Expo (RTX) is off to a flying start with an impressive list of 40-plus exhibitors already confirmed for the brand-new Stoneleigh Park event next summer.Well-known brands - including DAF, Iveco, Scania, Tevva and Volvo Trucks – have been quick to support the three-day expo, which promises to be ...
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ArticleCabotage rules unsafe and will see drivers being exploited, claims Unite union
The safety of all road users is at risk now that the government has relaxed cabotage rules for foreign drivers, according to the Unite union.It said that HGVs operating under the new system would not have to comply with the same licensing requirements and standards before entering the UK and ...
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ArticleSchmitz Cargobull launches new box trailer to be built in Manchester
Schmitz Cargobull is to mark the opening of its new trailer factory in Manchester with the launch of a new SKO lightweight dry freight box van developed specifically for the UK and Irish markets.Aimed at parcels and express operators the 13.6m trailer weighs 6.5 tonnes fitted with three axles - ...
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ArticleInsulate Britain blocks roads in Manchester and Birmingham as campaign widens
Insulate Britain is broadening its campaign beyond London and the M25 targeting a major road near Manchester Airport and Birmingham City centre yesterday (2 November).Around 11 people were arrested by Greater Manchester Police after protesting on Wilmslow Road near the M56, with some gluing their hands to the road. The ...
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ArticleLack of used trucks and training providers worsens HGV driver shortage
Efforts to tackle the lorry driver shortage in Scotland are being hampered by a lack of training providers and a shortage of second-hand trucks, a major HGV driver training school warned this week.Jim McEwan, director at Commercial Transport Training Services (CTTS) in Bathgate, West Lothian told MT that whilst there ...
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ArticleLondon delivery boom will collapse without major rethink, new report warns
If London’s delivery boom is to become sustainable it needs to create space for 10,000 parcel pick up points, build consolidation centres, roll out electric vehicle charging points and prioritise delivery vehicles by introducing a pay-per-mile road user charging scheme for cars.The recommendations are made in a report by Centre ...
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ArticleMPs demand all-lane running programme be “paused” until 2025 for safety assessment
The government’s decision to roll out all-lane running on smart motorways was “premature” and the programme should be “paused” until 2025 to properly assess its safety, according to a damning report published this week by the House of Commons Transport Committee.The report follows the Committee’s enquiry into the safety of ...
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ArticleOasis Group to lease major distribution hub at DP World’s London Gateway
Oasis Group has taken on a long-term lease on a 108,973 sq ft warehouse at DP World’s logistics park at London Gateway.Work will begin next spring with the distribution hub due to open in October. It will be built to BREEAM “outstanding” criteria - sustainability standard for building construction.Ernst Schulze, ...
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ArticleApplications for financial support over Manchester CAZ to start in November
Applications for financial support for HGV operators affected by the forthcoming Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone (CAZ) will launch at the end of next month, according to the transport body delivering the plan.Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) said its CAZ is due to be rolled out on 30 May 2022, ...
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ArticleDaimler Truck partners with BP to develop hydrogen infrastructure
Daimler Truck and BP have teamed up to deliver hydrogen-powered fuel-cell HGVs and deploy the infrastructure required for refuelling the vehicles in the UK by the end of the decade.Under their memorandum of understanding, Daimler said it expected to be able to offer hydrogen-powered trucks to UK customers by 2025 ...
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ArticleCommercial vehicle production edges higher
There was a modest increase in UK commercial vehicle production in September, figures showed.There were 7,799 CVs produced, a 1.8% increase on 2020, although output remained 8.1% below the five-year average for the month, according to the SMMT.The automotive association said production had declined by 35.1% in August and so ...
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ArticleGovernment plans road crash investigation branch amid fears over electric and automated vehicles
An investigation branch that probes road traffic collisions to establish their cause and make recommendations to improve road safety could be set up by the government.Working in a similar way to independent bodies operating in the air, maritime and rail industries, the Road Collision Investigation Branch (RCIB) would carry out ...
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ArticleSmart motorway protesters to carry coffins to Parliament
A campaign group protesting about the government’s continued rollout of smart motorways will carry a long procession of burial coffins to the department for transport’s office building next week.Smart Motorways Kill said the protest involving 38 coffins across Westminster Bridge to Parliament Square and then on to the DfT building ...
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ArticleBudget an "olive branch" to calm sector's fears, says Parcelhero
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget was an “olive branch” for logistics firms who have finally heard some good news from the government, according to parcel delivery service ParcelHero.It claimed that the measures outlined in the speech yesterday will reduce the strain on hauliers, as well as reducing the recent friction between ...
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ArticleRHA launches new attack on HMRC after "shameful" cabotage rules are given go-ahead
The government has effectively offshored UK haulage work to foreign operators after announcing it had slackened the rules on cabotage, according to the RHA.The business group said the move to allow continental hauliers to take on unlimited work in this country in two-week blocks seriously undermined efforts to recruit domestic ...