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Motor Transport Top 100 2018 Interactive Tables – Top 100 Growth in turnover
These interactive tables enable you to explore Motor Transport's Top 100 2018.Click on the tabs at the top of the table to view the different data sets. You can also click on the column headers to sort the table data from highest to lowest (or click again to sort from ...
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ArticleProlog in administration and up for sale
Prolog, a Nottinghamshire warehousing, distribution and logistics provider, has been put up for sale after entering administration as expected.In a statement Rebecca Dacre and Simon Chandler of Mazars confirmed they had today (26 November) been appointed as joint administrators of Promotional Logistics, which trades as Prolog.“Prolog is a provider of ...
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Kinaxia Logistics adds haulage business number eleven with Fresh Freight Group
Kinaxia Logistics has made its eleventh haulier purchase, snapping up Fresh Freight Group (FFG) in Gateshead.The buy is Kinaxia’s first in the North East and comes after it added Manchester-based AKW Group to its ranks last month.Peter Fields, director at Kinaxia Logistics, said: “It should come as no surprise to ...
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Brexit set to compound sector skills shortage irrespective of the final deal, warns FTA
Uncertainty over the immigration system after Brexit next year will compound the industry’s driver shortage and goods and services could grind to a halt, according to an FTA report.The FTA’s skills shortage report showed that there has been no let up in the struggle among haulage and logistics business to ...
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Palletways member Rase Distribution brings in its own delivery weight limit due to safety fears
Palletways member Rase Distribution has introduced a 750kg weight limit on tail-lift deliveries to domestic addresses after a risk assessment by owners HW Coates concluded that the network’s 1-tonne limit was putting the firm’s drivers at risk.The Lincolnshire company, which was bought by Hazchem member HW Coates in January, is ...
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ArticleLoCITY roadshow helps operators explore a sustainable future for deliveries and servicing
Finding sustainable ways to handle delivery and servicing journeys to homes and businesses was the focus of TfL’s LoCITY roadshow held at CEME Conference Centre, Rainham this week (20 November).The half-day event invited freight operators to learn from experts, take part in debate and hear from their peers about using ...
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Prolog poised to enter administration
Prolog, a Nottinghamshire warehousing, distribution and logistics service, is expected to enter administration next week (26 November), its proposed administrator has confirmed.The company, which has licences authorising 16 HGVs out of its Sherwood distribution park depot, plus another seven from a site in Sudbury, Suffolk, employs 618 staff.Mazars said ...
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ArticleTruck cartel claim reaches crucial point as CAT assesses competing class actions
The claim for compensation against the big six European truck manufacturers for agreeing gross list prices for new vehicles over 7.5 tonnes sold between 1997 and 2011 has reached a crucial point, as the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) will decide early in 2019 which of the competing class actions it ...
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ArticleMajor new player EV Cargo set to shake-up UK road transport industry
EmergeVest, the Hong Kong-based private-equity investor that has acquired CM Downton, NFT Distribution and Palletforce over the past four years, has merged its road transport and logistics assets into one company: EV Cargo.It has created a business that would rank 11th in the Motor Transport Top 100 and is now ...
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UK 'four meals away from anarchy' in event of Brexit no-deal, warns expert
The prime minister needs to get a Brexit deal through parliament, as the UK is only ‘four meals away from anarchy’ in the event of no-deal, delegates at the Feeding Cities Summit were told yesterday (21 November).Speaking at the UKWA event, Stephen Lawrence, CEO of property investment and development firm ...
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ArticleGas buses 'the most reliable on the fleet' for Reading Buses
While gas trucks are still a rare sight on UK roads, buses operating in towns and cities have been running on natural gas for years.Reading Buses is a good example, so MT went to talk to John Bickerton, head of engineering and innovation at Reading Buses, to see what lessons ...
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Registration open for Microlise Transport Conference 2019
Registration is now open for next year’s Microlise Transport Conference, which takes place at The Ricoh Arena on 15 May.A mix of speakers will cover the major topics affecting road transport businesses and the conference programme will include workshops and 50 exhibitors.Quentin Willson, journalist, presenter and industry lobbyist, will return ...
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ArticlePallet-Track to bring in power assisted equipment for all tail-lift deliveries
Pallet-Track members have backed a move to increase the pallet network’s internal delivery rate to pay for power-assisted delivery equipment to address weight concerns.From 1 February 2019, all vehicles making tail-lift deliveries will have power-assisted pallet trucks on board – similar to those pictured with network member Bartums – to ...
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Mandatory 20% cut to truck emissions by 2025 attacked by manufacturers
A mandatory 20% cut to CO2 emissions for new trucks by 2025 is “excessively aggressive” and will slow the production process in Europe, manufacturers have warned.The warning from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) follows a vote by the full European Parliament last week in favor of a mandatory 20% ...
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Simpson Logistics ran out of road due to a customer dispute and creditors chasing payment, says administrator
Administrators handling the affairs of County Durham haulier Simpsons Logistics said it had stopped trading due to a combination of cash flow issues, a customer dispute and a winding up petition.The former Palletforce member and independent carrier of parcels and pallets entered administration in September, but according to consultants at ...
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UKWA urges members to back PM's Brexit deal
The United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) has urged its members to voice their support for Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.“While recognising that the withdrawal agreement tabled by the government is not perfect and includes areas of compromise, if this is the mechanism that allows us to get over the ...
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ArticlePatrick Oestreich joins XPO Logistics to head European sales team
XPO Logistics has appointed Patrick Oestreich as senior vice president of the firm’s European strategic sales team.Oestreich has joined XPO Logistics after 11 years with DB Schenker, where his most recent role was senior vice president of road brokerage.In his new role at XPO, Oestreich takes responsibility for relationships with ...
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Expect Distribution seals Card Factory contract extension
Bradford-based Expect Distribution has landed a five-year contract with card retailer Card Factory.The award follows a one year trial with the Wakeford-based retailer, which saw Expect Distribution boost service and efficiency levels.The deal will see Expect Distribution handle almost all of the 100,000 pallets distributed to Card Factory’s 950-plus stores ...
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DAF engineers to be behind the wheel when HGV platoon trial takes to UK roads within the next few months
The UK’s first on-road HGV platooning trial will begin in spring next year with a convoy of three wirelessly connected DAF trucks driven in the first phase by the manufacturer's engineers, Highways England has confirmed.If the first phase of the £8.5m government funded trial is a success a second phase ...
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Tevva to offer range-extended truck on seven year full R&M lease deal
Tevva is to offer its UK-built range-extended electric truck on a seven year full repair and maintenance lease package.It will also give operators demonstrators for three to six months from June next year to prove the vehicle will cut their total cost of operation.Speaking at the FTA’s inaugural Future Logistics ...