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Motor Transport Power Players: 14 - Moya Greene
14) Moya Greene Title: Chief executive officer, Royal MailThe Motor Transport Top 100 employ more than 331,690 people across the country. However, Royal Mail’s 143,000 employees account for 43.1% of that total. Or in other words, no one in road transport is responsible for more jobs in this industry than ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 15 - David Wells
15) David Wells Title: Chief executive, FTAWells succeeded Theo de Pencier as chief executive of the FTA at the beginning of May. It’s unusual that the chief executives of both associations are starting their period in office at similar junctions, which makes it hard not to make comparisons with the ...
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Does the UK need a nationwide safer lorry standard? Part 1
The government has been urged to create a national definition for a ‘safe lorry’ to avoid multiple compliance standards being enforced across different cities.It has also been asked to extend to councils the power to apply their own lorry bans according to local requirements, with any exempt vehicles from such ...
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MT ArticleMotor Transport Power Players: 16 - Rob Flello MP
16) Rob Flello MP Title: Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freight Transport and MP for Stoke-on-Trent SouthFlello is the pre-eminent voice in Westminster when it comes to freight. Just before the election he said that it was “a largely misunderstood industry, often disregarded, or worse, by many in ...
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Fuelling the future; what the trucks of tomorrow will run on (part 2).
Commercial Motor takes a look at what we can expect to see fuelling the trucks of the future and how the industry is making preparations (part two of two).Hybrid methodsMost hybrid applications, though, use diesel/electric technology in one form or another. There are two basic hybrid concepts, series or parallel. ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 17 - Andrew Woolfenden
17) Andrew WoolfendenTitle: UK distribution director, TescoThere are fewer more high-profile, and demanding, jobs in road transport and logistics than running the in-house operations of (still) Britain’s biggest retailer.Tesco has had a rough 18-months, posting its worst set of annual results and a pre-tax loss of £6.38bn in February. Much-hand ...
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Fuelling the future; what the trucks of tomorrow will run on.
Commercial Motor takes a look at what we can expect to see fuelling the trucks of the future and how the industry is making preparations (part one of two).When many of us were starting off in the industry, predictions about the day the oil runs out suggested that it would ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 18 - Alex Laffey
18) Alex Laffey Title: Chief executive officer, Eddie Stobart LogisticsIn April 2014 Stobart Group disposed of 51% of its 100% shareholding of the Stobart road transport business to Douglasbay Capital (Dbay) – the former owners of TDG - for £280.8m.At the time William Stobart was the chief executive, but a ...
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New MTP episode available now
The latest episode of the Motor Transport Podcast (MTP) is available for download now. In this week's broadcast, Christopher Walton, Emma Shone and Ashleigh Wight discuss the effect the closure of the Forth Road Bridge is set to have on the haulage industry, with the RHA predicting huge industry-wide costs.The ...
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Motor Transport Power Players : 19 - Derrick Potter
19) Derrick Potter Title: Founder and executive chairman, Potter LogisticsDerrick Potter celebrated both the 50th anniversary of the founding of Potter Logistics and his 50th wedding anniversary in 2015, marking the occasion with the title of Motor Transport Haulier of the Year.While company isn’t the biggest in the UK by ...
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Potter makes it a double celebration in 2015
Potter Logistics picked up the Haulier of the Year Award in the 2015 Motor Transport Awards - the same year it celebrated its 50th anniversary.Naming Potter Haulier of the Year, the judges said it was a family business with a customer-centric ethos that had secured some very loyal, long-standing clients.The ...
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MT ArticleScottish hauliers slam "horrendous" cost of Forth Bridge closure
Scottish hauliers are up in arms about the “horrendous” extra costs they face because of the HGV ban on the Forth Road Bridge, which has been extended until the end of February. The bridge, originally scheduled to reopen to HGV traffic on 4 January after steelwork repairs, will reopen to ...
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FM Conway gets Econic in London
Construction company FM Conway has taken delivery of two Mercedes-Benz’s Econics.The tipper-grabs are claimed to be the first of their type in service in London based on the Econic chassis.Supplied by Dealer Sparshatts of Kent, FM Conway’s new trucks are both 8x4s single front steer axles, double-drive bogies and rear-steer ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 20 - Michael O'Donoghue
20) Michael O’DonoghueTitle: executive vice president for the UK, Ireland and Nordics, Ceva LogisticsAfter a painful and damaging refinancing and restructuring that saw several major customers move work away, Ceva Logistics is now back on the up.O’Donoghue is leading the firm’s resurgence in the UK and talks bullishly of a ...
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MT ArticleMotor Transport reveals the 2015 Power Players
Welcome to the fourth edition of Motor Transport's Power Players - the list of the 20 people we believe have the most influence, and exert the most control, over the road transport industry.The 2015 edition of the Power Players is by no means objective, but the journalists here at Motortransport.co.uk ...
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Bibby Distribution boasts confident outlook with new flagship depot
Bibby Distribution is set to open a new flagship depot in Wakefield next year, a move it described as a “reflection of confidence” in its future. The new 280,000ft² site, which has storage for 39,000 pallets, will become operational in Q1.Two major grocers will be the first to use the ...
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The government moves to make HGV sideguards compulsory for all new vehicles
The government is planning to outlaw the removal of sideguards and rear under-run devices on HGVs as part of its drive to reduce cyclist deaths across the UK.The plan is contained in the DfT’s British Road Safety Statement (BRSS) published this week, which also proposes doubling the fine for HGV ...
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MT ArticleXPO's not playing about after Entertainer contract extension
Christmas has come early for XPO Logistics, which has extended its contract with toy retailer The Entertainer for a further 10 years. The extension comes after The Entertainer moved to a new 230,000ft² national DC in Banbury, Northampton, in the summer, having outgrown its previous Swindon site.XPO, whose relationship with ...
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FTA welcomes "improved" mirror legislation for new HGVs
The FTA has welcomed the advent of “improved” mirrors for new HGVs from next year, describing them as a commonsense approach to boosting road safety.Christopher Snelling, head of national and regional policy at the FTA, said: "We're very happy with this as it's exactly the sort of approach to safety ...
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DfT details specification for 'improved' HGV mirrors
The DfT has detailed the technical specification that will apply to “improved” safety mirrors on all new HGVs sold from July of next year.The adoption of the improved mirrors last week (16 December), championed by the UK government, will be implemented to reduce vehicle blindspots and boost vulnerable road user ...