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ArticleTuffnells Parcels Express hit with £1.5m fine after driver crushed to death
Tuffnells Parcels Express, part of Connect Group, has been fined £1.5m after a driver died when he was trapped between a trailer and his vehicle.Dudley Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 22 January 2016, a Tuffnells Parcels Express employee was fatally injured while attempting to attach a trailer to his vehicle.The ...
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Accounting error brings down Go Direct Recruitment Services
Cannock-based transport and training company Go Direct Recruitment Services has gone into voluntary liquidation after an accounting error left the firm with debts of more than £2.8m.The company, which has a licence to operate 62 trucks and 60 trailers and counted pallet supplier CHEP as one of its clients, called ...
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ArticleATL officially opens new Midlands hub
ATL (Ascott Transport Limited) inaugurated its Midlands hub in Foston on 6 September.Greg Clark MP, secretary of state for business, officially opened the 35,000 pallet distribution centre and offices, which is housed on a 25-acre freehold site near the A50.MD Jon Ward spoke at the event, as well as co-founder ...
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ArticleHoyer orders 89 new MAN trucks for fuels business
Hoyer has added 89 new MAN TGS vehicles to its Petrolog division.The deliveries are set to be complete by October. The order comprises 75 replacement vehicles and 14 additional vehicles, all with 420hp engines.The majority of the new trucks feature day cabs (85), with four fitted with sleeper cabs.Read more ...
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ArticleElectric Vehicle Energy Taskforce given green light to address opportunities
Prime Minister Theresa May makes a speech at the Zero Emission Vehicle Summit at the ICC in Birmingham.The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) is to facilitate the government’s new Electric Vehicle Energy Taskforce, which was announced as part of the Road to Zero emissions strategy in July.Plans for the the ...
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ArticlePolice prepare for “unprecedented” queues at ports and civil unrest in the case of a no-deal Brexit
Police are preparing for massive traffic queues at ports leading to "unprecedented and overwhelming" disruption of the wider road network in the event of a no-deal Brexit.Contingency plans drawn up by the National Police Co-ordination Centre (NPCC), leaked to the Sunday Times, warn that, if ministers cannot secure a Brexit ...
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H&M Distribution appoints new commercial manager
Cambridgeshire based logistics provider H&M Distribution has appointed Vince Mattera as commercial manager.H&M Distribution is a member of the Palletways pallet network.He joins from Geodis and has worked in the logistics field for the past 11 years.In his new role he will be responsible for driving new business at H&M’s ...
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ArticleCarlos Rodrigues appointed as managing director of Renault Trucks UK and Ireland
Renault Trucks UK and Ireland has announced Carlos Rodrigues as its MD with effect from 1 October.The role is a newly created one, as more recently Renault and Volvo were overseen by Arne Knaben, the MD of Volvo Group UK.Rodrigues was previously chief financial officer (CFO) at Volvo Group Trucks ...
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Principle Pallet Network project comes to an end
Principle Pallet Network’s bid to become the UK’s ninth pallet network has ended in failure, it's former boss has confirmed.The network, originally set up by ex-Fortec directors Marcus Fischer and Neil Hodgson, was due to debut operationally in 2016 but did not deliver within that time-frame.Having remained under the radar ...
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ArticleSpeculative warehouse build set for Hinckley Park
IM Properties is to build a 532,000sq ft speculative warehouse at its Hinckley Park development off Junction 1 of the M69.The building will be known as Hinckley 532 and is due for completion by the end of next year. Richard Lawrence, IM Properties’ development director, believes its location on the ...
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House of Fraser stand-off set to cost 300 jobs at XPO Logistics
A union has condemned XPO Logistics and Sports Direct, as the House of Fraser supply chain impasse looks set to cost 300 jobs.According to the GMB union, XPO’s Milton Keynes depot, one of two that serves House of Fraser, is set to close.House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley’s ...
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Menzies Distribution sold to private equity firm Endless
Menzies Distribution has been sold, for an undisclosed sum, to private equity firm Endless.Last year owner John Menzies, which has been looking to divest the business, pulled the plug on a sale to DX Group, which had a rollercoaster of a 2017 itself.Two years back, the firm’s management started to ...
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Operators asked to make some noise about quiet deliveries at John Connell Awards
Freight operators are encouraged to enter this year's Noise Abatement Society (NAS) John Connell Awards to highlight efforts made in reducing the sound made by deliveries into urban or residential areas.A 'Quiet Logistics' category is open to operators, vehicle manufacturers, trailer-makers, bodybuilders and equipment suppliers that have created quieter ...
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ArticleFowler Welch extends partnership with Bernard Matthews
Chilled food specialist Fowler Welch and poultry producer Bernard Matthews have extended their long-term partnership with additional services and volume.Norwich-based Bernard Matthews has committed to a new two-year warehousing and distribution contract, increasing the volume of products that will be handled by Fowler Welch by 50%.Fowler Welch will manage chilled ...
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ArticleEddie Stobart's purchase of The Pallet Network marks the next step in the evolution of the sector, claims boss
Eddie Stobart Logistics’ purchase of The Pallet Network (TPN) represents the evolution of the pallet network model, according to MD Mark Duggan (pictured).TPN was bought for £52.8m by Eddie Stobart Logistics on 29 June and Duggan told MT that rather than consolidation, the move should be regarded as the evolvement ...
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Global Keg and Bullet Express roll out the barrels after striking new deal
Global Keg and Bullet Express have announced a storage and distribution partnership for operations in the UK and Ireland.Bullet Express will be providing services from its DC in Glasgow.Global Keg is a US-based supplier of stainless beer kegs, which it rents to brewers around the world.Read more Bullet Express: ...
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ArticleStop demonising diesel - just give us the facts
Just when you thought the ‘demonisation’ of diesel was well and truly dead and buried, as most people now understand that Euro-6 diesels are extremely clean, a press release from the Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance lands in my email inbox.Headlined “Government’s Clean Air Strategy ‘airs’ on the side of caution ...
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CEVA Logistics appoints new chief commercial officer
Laurent Binetti has been appointed chief commercial officer of CEVA Logistics and will join the company on 1 September.After starting his career in the retail industry, Binetti spent more than 20 years at Dell, holding senior commercial positions in Switzerland and the UK focusing on the EMEA regions. More recently, ...
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House of Fraser and XPO Logistics still at an impasse, warns GMB
A union representing workers at two XPO Logistics sites said a report earlier this week that the operator and its client House of Fraser had reached a compromise appears to be false.XPO Logistics is owed £30.4m as a creditor of the department store chain, which was placed into administration on ...
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ArticleTfL says retrofit will be available for hauliers in time for next year's Ultra Low Emission Zone
Retrofit equipment will be available for hauliers ahead of the start of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) next April, according to TfL.From 8 April 2019 HGVs entering central London will need to comply with Euro-6 engine emission regulations or face a daily fine of £100.TfL was responding to a ...