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Latest Industry news – Page 229
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Bandvulc add QR codes to tyre labels
Independent tyre retreader Bandvulc has come up with an intelligent solution to future tyre labelling worries by incorporating a QR code onto all of its new labels.From November 2012, European legislation will require all new tyres to carry labels to better inform customers of the efficiency, grip and noise of ...
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ArticleTell us your view of the Olympics – and win £100
With a little over four months to go before the Olympics starts, Motor Transport and Commercial Motor want to know how prepared you are for the disruption the Games will cause to deliveries.How much impact do you expect the Games to have? What actions have you taken to prepare your ...
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ArticleIan Jones retires from Mercedes Benz
Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicles MD Ian Jones has retired with immediate effect.In a statement the Executive Board of Mercedes-Benz UK says it wants to offer Jones “best wishes for the future”.Under Jones’s reign the Sprinter won the Motor Transport Award for Fleet Van of the Year for four consecutive years.The firm ...
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ArticleOwn-account operators in NI will need a licence from July
Own-account operators in Northern Ireland will need a licence from July for the first time.The Department of the Environment has set the 1 July as the deadline that will bring those moving their own goods by road into the licensing fold.Up until now only those providing hire and reward services ...
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ArticleOlympic Torch Relay route details revealed
Operators can now access a street-by-street guide to the Olympic Torch Relay.The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games has revealed the detailed route the ”moving roadblock” will take as it travels across the UK.The Olympic Flame will complete a 70-day journey, and with a series of events planned around ...
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ArticleGovernment to sell off strategic road network
The government is to part-privatise the roads in a bid to attract much needed investment for the UK's creaking transport network.Prime Minster David Cameron will announce a feasibility study during a speech at the Institute of Civil Engineers later today.In a bid to raise millions in investment, foreign companies would ...
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ArticleNews Extra: Chancellor ignores the economic case for a cut in fuel duty
The Chancellor turned his back on the road transport industry in the Budget, announcing August's 3.02ppl increase in fuel duty will stay. MT takes a look at the economic case against this decision.The price of bulk diesel has climbed 18.9% in the past 18 months, to reach a record high ...
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ArticleLonger semi-trailer swap service goes live
A website for operators keen to swap or acquire rights to operate longer semi-trailers has been launched by the RHA.The longer semi-trailer permit exchange information board is free to use, and is non-profit making.Jack Semple, RHA policy director, tells MT that companies can make requests either in confidence through the ...
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ArticleOlympic Route Network fine hike threat defeated
An attempt to introduce £200 parking fines on the Olympic Route Network (ORN) and beyond has been defeated.Operators working in the capital during the Games this summer had faced a hike in Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) from £130 to £200 on the ORN.They had also faced the prospect of the ...
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ArticleOlympics road race disruption details published
The timings, temporary road closures and parking restrictions that will be in place during the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been revealed.With road events in London scheduled to take place on seven of the 16 days of the Olympic Games and one day of the Paralympic Games, fleet operators will ...
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Labour warns on longer semi-trailer cyclist danger
Labour is calling on the government to "reverse its reckless decision" to give the go-ahead for a ten-year trial of longer semi-trailers.In a statement outlining the opposition's current road transport policy, shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle MP says ministers must "stop being dogmatic" and examine evidence from the Department for ...
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ArticleOperators Favour 15.65m
Early indications suggest that the larger 15.65m longer semi-trailer size is proving a more popular option than its 14.6m counterpart in the Department for Transport's (DfT) ten-year trial of the new lengths, announced last December.According to the DfT, “two or three” companies have returned their allowance of the smaller 14.6m ...
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ArticleAPN and TfL hold 'productive' pre-Olympics briefing
Transport for London (TfL) has held an Olympic briefing with members of the Association of Pallet Networks (APN) to build ties ahead of this summer’s Games.Despite APN representing eight networks consisting of more than 650 hauliers, chairman Paul Sanders has previously expressed frustration at a lack of engagement with Olympic ...
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ArticleSave Truckpol campaign
Major operators are throwing their weight behind a campaign to save TruckPol, led by MT’s sister magazine Commercial Motor, the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association.Since the withdrawal of its government grant last April, the freight crime intelligence unit has managed to survive on funding from the private ...
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Police launch URTU fraud investigation
Seven men, including URTU general secretary Bob Monks, have been released on bail after a series of co-ordinated arrests as part of an investigation into alleged fraud offences relating to LGV licences and Driver CPC.The operation, conducted by Greater Manchester Police’s Volume Fraud unit in conjunction with the Driving Standards ...
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Plan now for Olympics
This summer it won’t be business as usual for the road transport industry.The world’s biggest sporting event is hitting UK shores on 27 July and bringing with it a host of traffic restrictions and road closures that will result in changes to delivery patterns and the way you normally operate.If ...
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Operators urged to cut carbon
The FTA has urged operators to join its Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme (LCRS) to strengthen its efforts to avoid government action over commercial vehicle emissions.Evidence from the scheme, which published its second annual report this week, will be submitted to the DfT's Freight Review later this year. The FTA hopes ...
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Cabotage deal in the offing
UK and Irish governments are set to meet next month to discuss cabotage regulations after intense lobbying from Irish hauliers.For years hauliers in both countries have delivered trailers to ports, where they were collected for inward delivery by a driver working in that country. This practice falls foul of cabotage ...
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Buyers’ guides now on commercialmotor.com
“Challenging.” That seems to the euphemistic description for the tough economic times in which we find ourselves. Capital budgets are being cut to the bone – and then trimmed some more.That’s where our series of free buyers’ guides on Commercialmotor.com will come in handy. We aim to cut a route ...
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Attracting and retaining talent remains key concern for logistics bosses
Almost three-quarters (72%) of transport and logistics bosses plan to overhaul how they manage the talent within their companies in response to the skills crisis.Sector analysis of PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) 15th Annual Global CEO Survey reveals that attracting and keeping hold of talent is a significant concern for most bosses within ...