Latest fleet news – Page 524
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MT ArticleAshford lorry park will be no repeat of Stanford West, says DfT minister
The government is insisting its plans to build a lorry park outside Ashford, Kent ahead of Brexit are not a repeat of its Stanford West lorry park project.The park would have held 3,600 trucks but the plan was ditched in 2017 after the government decided not to fight a judicial ...
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MT ArticlePlan to install overhead cables on motorways for electric trucks moves step closer
A test track with electric overhead contact wire for hybrid trucks on an e-Highway in Luebeck, GermanyA £19.3bn plan to install overhead charging cables for electric lorries on the slow lanes of the UK’s motorways, which could help the UK meet its 200 zero carbon emissions target, has been published ...
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MT ArticleMeet the MT Awards shortlists - Safety in Operation sponsored by VisionTrack
Air ProductsAir Products set itself the ambitious goal of being the safest industrial gas company, with a target of zero accidents and incidents and a philosophy that all accidents are preventable. It has 353 drivers and 278 vehicles making approximately 220,000 deliveries a year to customers ranging from large industrial ...
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MT ArticlePre-pack sale of West Midlands logistics firm cost management team £143,000
Logistics firm Amco Services (International) was sold in a pre-pack deal that cost its management team £143,000, according to new documents.The company called in the administrators in April after the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted a turnaround plan launched earlier in the year in response to mounting cash and ...
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MT ArticleFormer staff of failed car transporter will now receive payout
Former employees of a Sheerness-based car transporter that entered administration just before Christmas are now expected to be paid all the money they are owed.Staff at Eulos.EU were told by the administrator that they may only receive 14p in the pound after the company collapsed on 23 December 2019.But in ...
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MT ArticleDawsongroup Truck and Trailer adds to contract hire team
Dawsongroup Truck and Trailer has appointed a new national contract hire sales manager to bolster its team and support customers as they emerge from lockdown.The company said Richard Prosser (pictured) brings with him almost 30 years’ experience in the commercial vehicle industry and has spent time working for Scania GB ...
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MT ArticleStewarts of Tayside orders 10 refrigerated trailers
A 16-year relationship between Stewarts of Tayside and Carrier Transicold shows no signs of thawing after the Perthshire fruit and veg firm took delivery of 10 new refrigerated trailers.The single-temperature Vector 1550 units are mounted to 13.6m Gray & Adams trailers and have been equally split between new additions to ...
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MT ArticleAcclaim Logistics signs Palletline deal
Acclaim MD Mark RobinsonAcclaim Logistics has partnered with Palletline, saying it will give customers greater choice in terms of pricing, pallet sizing and distribution options.The company offers flexible parcel and pallet distribution solutions in the Southampton area and with depots in Totton and on the Isle of Wight it can ...
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MT ArticleOctopus Energy joins Royal Mail and DPD in trialing LEVC's prototype electric van
Energy retailer Octopus is the latest company to trial LEVC’s VN5 electric van prototype. Joining similar tie-ins with Royal Mail and DPD, Octopus Energy engineers will use the vehicles to install the same electric chargers the vans use, which LEVC described as the “first-ever circular real-world trial”. ...
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MT ArticleDFDS using pandemic as excuse to cut jobs and make "brutal attacks" on workforce, Unite claims
The Unite union has accused DFDS of using Covid-19 as an excuse to make dozens of redundancies in its Immingham workforce and reduce overtime rates, potentially affecting freight routes.The union said the plan to cut 62 jobs from the 600-strong workforce were unnecessary given steadily increasing freight volumes.In June, DFDS ...
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MT ArticleOTC reveals details of 99 operators reported for bridge strikes
Nearly 100 operators involved in bridge strikes have been reported to the traffic commissioner in the last 12 months, figures reveal.The office of the traffic commissioner (OTC) said of the 99 firms involved in these incidents, 12 were subsequently called to public inquiries and 22 dealt with at preliminary hearings.Others ...
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MT ArticleDrivers claim some firms still ban them from using their toilets
Victory! Back in 2017, after campaigning from the Unite union and Truckers’ Toilets UK, the HSE ruled thatemployers in control of non-domestic premises (i.e. places of work) were required to allow all visitors to their premises, who were not employed by them, access to their toilets and washing facilities.No more ...
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MT ArticleDVSA adds 'e-learning' content to driver CPC courses
Driver CPC delegates can now take up to two hours of a seven-hour course as ‘e-learning’ content under changes brought in this week.So-called e-learning is not the same as distance learning or remote learning, which have been used as part of the emergency response to Covid-19 during the pandemic.Instead, the ...
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MT ArticleHighways England road improvement plan was heavily scaled back, review reveals
Highways England’s (HE) programme for major improvements on the road network was overly optimistic and had to be substantially reduced from 112 schemes to 73, according to a review of the agency.The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) also said too many people are still dying on the road network ...
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MT ArticleKuehne + Nagel Q2 turnover down 21.5% but volumes back to normal
Kuehne + Nagel said demand for domestic European transport had broadly improved to pre-crisis levels following a significant decline in order volumes in April and May.However, turnover for its road logistics division was down by 21.5% in Q2 2020 to CHF 721m (£611m), compared with the same quarter in 2019, ...
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MT ArticleDriver poll reveals Britain's best and worst motorways
The M11 in CambridgeshireThe M11 has topped the list of road users’ best motorways, with the M20 voted the worst, according to research by Transport Focus.The motorway from London to Cambridge had the highest overall satisfaction of 92%.The best A-road was the A66 route across the Pennines from Scotch Corner ...
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MT ArticleDPD beats green target by five months as electric fleet expands
DPD plans to trial a specially adapted 2.5-tonne electric van which it says will ‘revolutionise green logistics’ DPD has beaten its target of having 10% of its couriers emissions-free, achieving the ambitious goal five months ahead of schedule. The parcel firm said more than 700 of its ...
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MT ArticleGreen hydrogen dual fuel trial saves 14 tonnes of CO2
Over 14 tonnes of CO2 has been saved in a two year project by the Low Emission Freight and Logistics Trial (LEFT) involving just 11 urban trucks and vans running on green hydrogen dual fuel.With between 20-45% of the diesel fuel being displaced by green hydrogen on the various vehicles, ...
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MT ArticleCtrack by Inseego signs deal with MaxOptra to provide fleets with enhanced route-planning software
Ctrack by Inseego has teamed up with MaxOptra to meet the growing demand from multi-drop distribution operations for optimised scheduling and live transport management.The partnership will deliver telematics-enabled solutions that use highly accurate, real-time data to support dynamic route planning and planned vs actual performance monitoring.MaxOptra’s route planning software has ...
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MT ArticleNearly half of fleets admit low emission zones will impact their business
More than four out of 10 fleets believe that they will be affected by the introduction of Clean Air Zones (CAZ) across the UK and the Ultra-Low Emissions Zones (ULEZ) in London.According to the Arval Mobility Observatory research, 43% of all UK businesses said they will be impacted – but ...