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Strong opposition to Tyneside CAZ forces council chiefs to review proposals
Proposals for either a charging clean air zone (CAZ) or tolls on Tyneside's city centre bridges are going back to the drawing board after a public consultation revealed strong opposition to both plans.The plans, drawn up by Newcastle, Gateshead and North Tyneside councils, proposed either a charging CAZ or a ...
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Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone freight fund rejected by government
The government has rejected Greater Manchester’s request for a £116m support fund to help local businesses upgrade to compliant fleet vehicles.More than half of this total was to form a £59m Clean Freight Fund for helping local firms upgrade to compliant HGVs and vans.In a letter sent to the Greater ...
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Morrisons, Wincanton and Unite set for more talks over staff transfer
Unite and Morrisons are set to return to talks later this month in a bid to resolve a dispute over the transfer of drivers and vehicle maintenance staff to 3PL Wincanton, mototransport.co.uk can reveal.Following a meeting between the stakeholders last week (12 July) – the fourth such meeting – Unite, ...
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LDV begins Milk & More delivery with 159 EVs set to be in place by autumn
Milk & More has started taking delivery of an order of 159 zero-emission vans from LDV.The EV80s will be in place by the end of September and will take Milk & More’s EV fleet – including 150 milk floats and 200 electric street scooters purchased last year – to just ...
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Pall-Ex signs up to Armed Forces Covenant in bid to help veterans and tackle driver shortage
Pall-Ex has become the latest logistics business to sign the Armed Forces Covenant in a move aimed at both helping veterans and tackling the industry's skills shortage.The Armed Forces Covenant promises fair treatment to those who serve or have served in the armed forces, and their families, helping them to ...
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New Haydock sortation centre to play key role in Amazon's final mile delivery strategy
Amazon is set to add a key part to its final mile logistics network with the opening of a £68m sortation centre in Haydock in September.The 98,425sq ft centre, located in Haydock’s M6Major.com business park, will receive and sort parcels from Amazon’s fulfilment centres and arrange their transportation to delivery ...
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Whistl promotes Evans and Hughes to the board
Whistl has appointed John Evans the company’s head of legal and Gareth Hughes, procurement, property and fleet director at the operator, to its executive board of management.Evans, who is also company secretary, joined Whistl in 2003. Hughes joined the carrier more recently in 2015.Nick Wells, CEO Whistl, said: “We ...
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ArticleConsultation countdown underway for Sheffield Clean Air Zone
Hauliers have six weeks to make their views known to Sheffield City Council on its plans to introduce a charging clean air zone (CAZ), which will see non Euro-6 HGVs paying a £50 daily charge to enter the city centre but cars going free. The proposed CAZ, set to be ...
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Earned Recognition 'bolt on' will allow hauliers to demonstrate they meet specific client standards
Operators will be able to demonstrate that they are meeting Earned Recognition standards to specific customers after the DVSA said it was designing a “bolt-on module”.Currently the Earned Recognition scheme enables companies to share their performance data with the DVSA, proving they meet the enforcement agency’s standards.In return, they’re less ...
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ArticleVolvo Trucks MD brings bus experience to bear on greener trucks
The major truck importers seem to turn over MDs almost as fast as Premier League football clubs and the latest incumbent at Volvo Trucks Robert Grozdanovski recently took over following Arne Knaben’s five year stint.Grozdanovski comes to Warwick after eight years in Eastern Europe and says that within reason Volvo ...
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ArticleXPO graduate trainee programme develops the managers of the future
Transport MD Dan Myers started as graduate trainee in 1998XPO Logistics’ graduate and apprenticeship programmes have their origin in Europe and in the UK. The scheme was originally introduced 25 years ago in the UK, and it boasts a famous graduate – Carol Vorderman, the maths genius who progressed from ...
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ArticleProperty and Palletforce drives Elddis Transport onward
Elddis Transport increased its turnover and profit in 2018, despite the County Durham company getting a drubbing from the Beast from the East.Turnover rose to £27.4m from £26.9m in 2017 and pre-tax profit rose by 37.5% during the period to £658,338.The company said that despite the havoc caused by the ...
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ArticleHow to get your product in front of 1,000 urban logistics professionals
Do you want to meet 1,000 urban logistics professionals from across the industry?Taking place on 6 November 2019 in London’s Alexandra Palace, Freight in the City Expo will be full of key decision-makers looking for the latest technology and equipment to make urban freight movements safer, cleaner, quieter and more ...
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Prolog creditors will likely receive little back, warns administrator
Trade creditors of Nottinghamshire warehouse and logistics provider Prolog are set to receive just 4p in the pound, after administrators found there were insufficient funds to pay them in full.In its latest progress report, Mazars said that even the collapsed operator's secured creditor, Lloyds Bank, would suffer “a significant shortfall ...
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Fowler Welch sees turnover climb but profit stall
Fowler Welch saw turnover climb 6% to £178.7m in the year to 31 March, although annual profit was pegged back due to operational inefficiency at certain depots.Topline growth was driven by two “significant contracts” that commenced mid-way through the financial year, as well as organic growth.In its results statement, parent ...
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Palletforce completes the sale of final haulier member, returning to its network roots
Pallet network Palletforce, which is part of the EV Cargo group, has completed the divestment of its haulier members.In a statement it revealed the sale of UK Freight Masters (UKFM) to TTT Logistics Group, which owns TPN member Allegro Transport and the Logistifix and Fleetfix businesses.Palletforce said that after moving ...
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ArticleOcado's Andover warehouse fire cost the business more than £100m
Online grocer Ocado has revealed the cost of the fire in February that destroyed its Andover customer fulfilment centre (CFC) to be £110.3m.The figure was reported in Ocado’s half-year results for the 26 weeks ending 2 June, which saw the business post a pre-tax loss of £142.8m (2018: loss of ...
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Clock ticking for DfT to secure additional ferry capacity ahead of Brexit, MPs warn
The DfT is running out of time to put in place additional ferry capacity ahead of the Brexit deadline of 31 October and is ill prepared for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.The warning comes in the committee's report Brexit and the UK Border: ...
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Eddie Stobart Logistics increases turnover but feels profit pinch
Eddie Stobart Logistics’ (ESL) turnover increased 25% year-on-year in the half year period the group said today (9 July), but it also warned that profit would be at the lower end of expectations.In a trading statement, ESL said group turnover increased due to organic growth and a full first-half contribution ...
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New Wincanton boss to take reins from September
Adrian Colman’s successor will start his role as Wincanton’s new CEO on 2 September.James Wroath, who will be appointed to the 3PL’s board on the same day, is currently chief operating officer, North America, for Lufthansa subsidiary LSG Sky Chefs.Colman will step down as CEO and from the board with ...