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DPD Precise to allow customers to pick their own delivery slot
Multi-Motor Transport Award winning parcels carrier DPDgroup is set to introduce a new service later this year that will allow its customers to choose their own hour-long delivery slot. DPD Precise, which should be running by the summer according to chief executive Dwain McDonald, follows in the footsteps of ...
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ArticleBuffaload double-decker fleet passes 100 mark
Buffaload's double-decker trailer fleet has passed the 100 mark after delivery of a consignment of new Gray and Adams trailers. The 10 temperature-controlled trailers, which bring the company’s double-decker fleet up to 105, are part of ongoing expansion in the business.Buffaload said each trailer can carry around 60% more volume ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 5 - Bradley Jacobs
5) Bradley Jacobs Title: CEO XPO LogisticsJacobs has been shaking up the road transport and logistics market in the US since he bought Express-1 Expedited Solutions in 2011 and renamed it XPO Logistics.He believes that the industry is ripe for consolidation due to its fragmented nature and he’s been sourcing ...
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ArticleUPN launches latest version of live signature capture app
The United Pallet Network (UPN) has launched a new live signature capture application to enhance its proof of delivery offering. SmartPOD is the network’s third generation of signature capture app, and sees signatures uploaded to the UPN servers in real time. This means proof that a pallet has arrived and ...
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ArticleAssociations fear new Dunkirk migrant camp will increase drivers' danger
A proposed new migrant camp in Dunkirk, just 30 miles from Calais, has been criticised by the RHA and the FTA. The French government is to commit a proposed £1.1m to the camp, which is located about five miles east of the port of Dunkirk.The RHA said the dangers faced ...
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International partnership aims to halve road freight's CO2 emissions by 2050
A new international partnership focused on tackling road freight emissions was launched at last month’s COP21 climate change forum in Paris.Its aim is to explore the “currently untapped and unmapped potential” for reducing emissions through better fleet optimisation and collaboration between road freight operators.Truck manufacturer Scania, operators Nestlé and UPS ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 6 - Andrew Jones
6) Andrew Jones MP Title: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Department for TransportIf you knew Andrew Jones before he became freight minister you were either well plugged in to the world of politics in North Yorkshire, or were familiar with him from his days working at Bettys and Taylors ...
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Amazon Pantry expansion knocks Ocado shares yet again
Ocado suffered at the hand of Amazon yet again last week, when the e-retail giant said it was expanding the catalogue of products on offer as part of its new Amazon Pantry service. The announcement, embedded in a Guardian interview with Amazon UK chief executive Christopher North, was followed by ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 7 - Richard Burnett
7) Richard BurnettTitle: Chief executive RHAFor the general public, Richard Burnett is the face of the road transport industry. When he became chief executive of the RHA in summer 2014 Burnett would hardly have believed he would have to be a man for a crisis. But life isn’t always that ...
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ArticleStuart Jackson joins Bridgestone UK's senior management team
Stuart Jackson has been appointed as business development director for northern Europe at Bridgestone.As part of his new role Jackson will work in support of all departments in the UK and Ireland, and will manage the delivery of a number of projects intended to transform the sales and profitability of ...
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ArticleCentury earns plaudits for untangling knotty problem of returns
Century Logistics is earning a reputation in the logistics industry for its innovative approach to managing returns.Sleepy Saxham in Suffolk is not exactly the sort of hotbed of logistics innovation where a company winning plaudits for maximising the value from that most thorny of retail problems – returns - might ...
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Muller to integrate Dairy Crest's dairy operation "at pace"
Müller UK and Ireland is planning a rapid integration of Dairy Crest’s dairy operations following the completion of the £80m takeover deal.The integration could bring major changes to its milk collection and delivery operations.Unlike Dairy Crest, which mainly used third party logistics suppliers, including Wincanton, for fresh milk operations, Müller ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 8 - Ray Ashworth
8) Ray AshworthTitle: MD Daf Trucks UKOne in every three trucks registered every month is a Daf, which means arguably, he is man who ultimately dictates the price of anywhere between 26% to 30% of new trucks bought in the UK.In August 2015 Daf celebrated 20 consecutive years of topping ...
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ArticleMotor Transport Power Players: 9 - David Hunt
9) David Hunt Title: vice-president and managing director at Ryder EuropeWith some 12,500 truck assets on its books Ryder remains the largest truck rental firm in the UK - which means it’s one of the biggest truck buyers as well as one of the biggest truck suppliers in the UK.Ryder’s ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 10 - Dwain McDonald
10) Dwain McDonaldTitle: Chief executive, DPDgroup UKFive MT Awards in one night? Only McDonald has managed that. He might not like us saying it, but McDonald has led the biggest success story in UK road transport in not just the past year, but the past decade.Back in August 2006 the ...
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Sheriff makes recomendations after Glasgow bin lorry tragedy - part 2
This is part two of two of an article that originally appeared in Freight in the City's sister publication, Commercial Motor. Why not subscribe and get 12 issues for just £12?The recommendation that non-driver crew members should be given basic training in how to stop a refuse truck in an ...
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ArticleMotor Transport Power Players: 11 - Violeta Bulc
11) Violeta Bulc Title: European Commissioner for TransportSlovenian Bulc was described by the press as “not your average commissioner” – she has studied as a shaman and is a trained fire-walker and wrote a blog about her interest in positive energy forces. That to one side… she’s the most influential ...
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Sheriff makes recomendations after Glasgow bin lorry tragedy - part 1
Aside from the six lives lost in the Glasgow bin lorry accident, perhaps the saddest fact is that, according to the results of the Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) into the tragedy, it could quite possibly have been avoided.In the report on the five-week inquiry, released last month (December 2015), sheriff ...
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Nearly all Northern Ireland own-account operators have an O-licence
Almost every operator in Northern Ireland that should have a restricted O-licence has been issued one, three years after updated O-licensing rules came into force.According to figures published by the Department of the Environment, just two temporary permits were awaiting conversion into a full restricted O-licence at the end of ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 12 - Margrethe Vestager
12) Margrethe VestagerTitle: European commissioner for competitionFormerly the Deputy Prime-Minister of Denmark Vestager makes this list because she has one decision in her hands that could reshape the road transport industry, namely approving FedEx’s acquisition of TNT.The commission had until 7 December to “make sure that FedEx's takeover of TNT ...