Latest fleet news – Page 409
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MT ArticleNew cabotage rules will force more drivers to park overnight in laybys, Logistics UK warns
Relaxing cabotage rules for foreign operators in the UK will force more drivers to park up overnight in lay-bys, according to Logistics UK.HMRC announced this week it was allowing until 30 April 2022 unlimited cabotage movements of HGVs for up to 14 days after arriving in the UK on a ...
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MT ArticleYodel conjures up Merlin2 parcel sorting system as volumes soar
Yodel’s engineering wizards have created a new sortation system called Merlin2, which it said will handle delicate and irregular shaped parcels in response to booming volumes.The system is located at Yodel’s Shaw sorting centre and is its second automated out of gauge facility following the original Merlin, introduced in Wednesbury ...
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MT 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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MT 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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MT 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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MT ArticleDPD set to open £150m parcel hub in Leicestershire
DPD’s £150m parcel hub in Hinckley, Leicestershire will be fully operational ahead of the Black Friday and Christmas period, the parcel delivery group has confirmed.The depot is the company’s fifth in the UK and one of the largest fully-automated domestic parcel hubs in Europe.DPD said Hub 5, close to junction ...
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MT 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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MT 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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MT 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 ...
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MT ArticleForget cabotage and show us some respect....
So, the government has another genius solution to wreck the transport industry further through changes to the cabotage rules. All these 'solutions' will not fix the industry, they will harm it further.A quick fix to the driver shortage does not exist. The problem took many years to manifest itself, so ...
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MT ArticleHermes opens pop-up depot in Birmingham to handle peak season
Hermes UK has opened another pop-up distribution depot, this time at Meteor Park in Birmingham.The delivery firm said the move created 135 seasonal jobs at the 112,000 sq ft warehouse, which opened ahead of the peak Black Friday and Christmas periods.The depot can handle over 120,000 parcels each day and ...
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MT ArticleELB Partners adds Volvo FM Globetrotters to fleet
ELB Partners has spent more than £1m future-proofing its fleet after investing in nine new Volvo FM Globetrotters.The 6x2 units all have a three-star rating under London’s Direct Vision Standard (DVS) and are the first of this rating to leave Volvo’s factory and be pressed into service.Two of the tractor ...
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MT ArticleWincanton agrees deal with toy maker MGA Entertainment
Wincanton has won a five-year contract with children’s toys manufacturer MGA Entertainment, providing final mile deliveries to retailers and customers’ homes.Operating out of Wincanton’s automated warehouse in Middlewich, the contract involves the logistics company storing, picking and delivering around 250,000 products per week during peak periods.Read more Wincanton chief ...
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MT ArticleCNG Fuels subsidiary HyFuels to trial hydrogen for HGVs
CNG Fuels is to host HGV hydrogen fuel trials across its UK network of public access biomethane refuelling stations.The trial will be conducted under Hyfuels, a new branch of the company, which aims to help customers adopt hydrogen quickly and easily when it becomes commercially viable.The trials follow a report ...
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MT ArticleTransport sector gives mixed response to Autumn Budget
The RHA has welcomed moves to help the transport and logistics sector contained in the government's Autumn Budget which it said were "campaigning wins for the organisation".However, Logistics UK said its concerns over inadequate HGV parking facilities had not been fully addressed, while the BVRLA said fleet operators needed far ...
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MT ArticleMoody Logistics hails in-house driver apprenticeship scheme
Moody Logistics and Storage has described its in-house training programme as a “huge success” after its first two driver apprentices gained their Class 2 licences in less than five months.Joe Chan (left) and Tony Hunter, both 24, are the first to graduate after the Cramlington-based firm set up its own ...
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MT ArticleConsequences of driver shortage can prove a positive for the industry
Given the amount of publicity there has been around the shortfall of HGV drivers, it may have been more appropriate for the RHA to rename its National Lorry Week (25-31 October) as National Lorry Drivers' Week.Its aim is to highlight just how important the logistics industry is to this country ...
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MT ArticleReport calls for radical industry action to retain HGV drivers
The haulage industry is training sufficient HGV drivers but failing to retain them, a report by the Driver Require Think Tank has concluded.The Think Tank of leading logistics professionals, brought together by Kieran Smith, chief executive of Driver Require, to examine the causes of the HGV driver shortage, is calling ...
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MT ArticleTurners (Soham) tanker drivers see pay boosted by 17.5%
Tanker drivers employed by Turners (Soham) on the Cargill contract in Liverpool have secured a bumper 17.5% pay deal, Unite has announced.The 24 tanker drivers, who deliver bulk liquid food products to food manufacturers across the UK, are to receive a 17.5% increase in all elements of their pay for ...
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MT ArticleHouse of Lords grills Baroness Vere on HGV driver shortage
Transport minister Baroness Vere (pictured) faced a barrage of questions in the House of Lords today (26 October) on the lorry driver shortage with peers accusing the government of creating a “world beating” dearth of HGV drivers and enacting “panic button” policies to solve the crisis.The transport minister was asked ...