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MT ArticleApprenticeship Week: Staci UK launches degree apprenticeship scheme
Specialist fulfilment provider Staci has launched a new degree apprenticeship scheme aimed at nurturing the next generation of supply chain professionals in the UK.
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MT Article Apprenticeship Week: Whistl celebrates 20 employees gaining apprenticeships
As part of National Apprenticeship Week, e-fulfilment, mail and parcels specialist Whistl is celebrating 20 of its employees gaining apprenticeship qualifications during 2024. The successful candidates are from all areas of the business including mail and parcel warehouse and transport operations, contact solutions, cross border and HR. The qualifications ...
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MT ArticleRoad transport critical to achieving growth, RHA tells Treasury spending review
The RHA is urging the government to prioritise businesses across the road transport sector as critical drivers of growth, in its submission to the Treasury’s spending review.
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MT ArticleApprenticeship Week: Europa boosts customer service with apprenticeship programme
As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off, Europa Road’s first cohort of apprentices are preparing to celebrate the completion of their customer service supervisor apprenticeships.
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MT ArticleApprenticeship Week: Renault Trucks UK boosts apprenticeship drive with launch of Leicestershire training academy
Renault Trucks UK and Ireland has officially opened its new Renault Trucks UK Training Academy, which is located in Whetstone in Leicestershire.
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MT ArticleFleetCheck urges operators to back calls for wider use of 20mph speed limits
Fleets should consider backing calls for much wider use of 20mph speed limits in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland after initial results from Wales showed a “dramatic” reduction in road casualties, fleet software and management specialist FleetCheck said this week.
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MT ArticleBiffa converts 25 diesel vehicles to HVO at Midlands and North West depots in drive to halve emissions
Biffa has converted an additional 25 vehicles to run on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) across its industrial and commercial (I&C) division in the Midlands and North West
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MT ArticleGlencar unveils prime logistics units near Leeds
Glencar has completed construction of two prime industrial & logistics units of 76,231 and 145,454sq ft for Baytree, a pan-European developer of logistics buildings.
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MT ArticleXPO launches Nature Network biodiversity project at UK headquarters
XPO Logistics is launching a project to enhance biodiversity around its sites in the UK and Ireland.
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MT ArticleCulina Group implements Jaama’s Key2 software to streamline fleet management
Culina Group has appointed Jaama as its new fleet and asset management software provider.
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MT ArticleBucks bulk tipper firm in administration
Grain, feed and aggregate haulier Adstock Bulk Solutions has entered administration after almost 13 years of trading.
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MT ArticleRoad scheme upgrades across the country confirmed
The government is promising faster journey times for drivers across Wiltshire, Leeds, Essex and Buckinghamshire after it green lit four essential road scheme upgrades.
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MT ArticleRoyal Mail trailer unloading reduced by 97% thanks to new innovation
Royal Mail said its in-house designed automatic trailer unloader had cut the average time taken to unload an HGV from three-and-a-half hours to just six minutes.
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MT ArticleInquiry urges law overhaul to prevent extended outrigger deaths
A fatal accident inquiry into the death of a pedestrian struck by the extended outrigger leg of a lorry found that deaths in similar circumstances could happen again.
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MT ArticleForward Solutions shares strategic vision
Freight tech firm Forward Solutions used its first ever client conference to showcase the next versions of its core suite of freight management software, Forward Office.
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MT ArticleRevenues up, profit down at Fagan & Whalley
Fagan & Whalley saw turnover increase by 1.5% last year, but pre-tax profit more than halved over the same period.
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MT ArticleWarehouse jobs handed to robots as NI increase hits firms
The increase in National Insurance contributions paid by employers is behind a rapid increase in the replacement of warehouse workers with robots, according to Toyota.
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MT ArticleA ‘pause’ in accepting electricity network connection requests will soon be lost in the noise of reform
A ‘pause’ has been enacted in projects joining the queue to connect to the high-voltage national electricity transmission network.
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MT ArticleFUSO developing second-life battery strategy with energy storage systems
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has partnered with Connexx Systems to repurpose used FUSO eCanter batteries for energy storage systems.
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MT ArticleNigel Rice Transport & Storage adds electric Renault to fleet following EV trial
Beverley-based haulier Nigel Rice Transport & Storage has taken delivery of its first electric truck, a Renault Trucks E-Tech D16 4x2.