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Motor Transport Power Players: 6 - Andrew Jones

2016-01-06T09:00:00Z

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

2016-01-05T16:15:00Z

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

2016-01-05T09:00:00Z

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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Stuart Jackson joins Bridgestone UK's senior management team

2016-01-04T15:50:00Z

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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Century earns plaudits for untangling knotty problem of returns

2016-01-04T15:45:00Z

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"

2016-01-04T13:39:00Z

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

2016-01-04T09:00:00Z

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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Motor Transport Power Players: 9 - David Hunt

2016-01-03T09:00:00Z

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

2016-01-02T09:00:00Z

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

2016-01-02T09:00:00Z

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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Motor Transport Power Players: 11 - Violeta Bulc

2016-01-01T09:00:00Z

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

2016-01-01T09:00:00Z

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

2016-01-01T08:57:00Z

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

2015-12-31T09:00:00Z

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 ...

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2015: A year of industrial disputes in road transport

2015-12-31T06:18:00Z

With an improving economy and subsequent pressure for operators to improve pay, it's been a year of hard negotiation for many, and in some cases road transport businesses and even the DVSA have had to contend with industrial action including strikes. Motortransport.co.uk looks back at a year of disputes.January2015 began ...

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Motor Transport Power Players: 13 - Steve Parkin

2015-12-30T09:00:00Z

13) Steve ParkinTitle: Chairman, Clipper LogisticsSteve Parkin is one of those larger than life characters that still enliven the logistics industry. Having left school with no qualifications and after spending 18 months working as a coal miner, he built Clipper Logistics from a one man and a van operation to ...

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Tevva develops electric truck for city centre deliveries

2015-12-30T06:34:00Z

A range-extended 7.5-tonne electric truck using a chassis cab built by China’s JAC and UK-sourced key components could help combat urban air quality concerns, said developer Tevva Motors. The Brentwood, Essex, company contends that the newcomer can travel for up to 100 miles on battery power only, meaning it can ...

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2015 - a year of mergers, acquisitions and shocks

2015-12-29T10:00:00Z

2015 saw some shocks in the market; FedEx bidding for TNT Express; XPO Logistics buying Norbert Dentressangle and BCA Marketplace buying Eddie Stobart's automotive business. But they weren't the only acquisitions in a year packed with M&A activity. We take a look at some of the deals that changed the ...

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Does the UK need a nationwide safer lorry standard? Part 2

2015-12-29T09:30:00Z

This is part two of the article, which originally appeared in Freight in the City's sister publication Commercial Motor. With regards to London’s increased enforcement powers, the FTA expressed concern over TfL’s “unilateral approach” to regulating the freight sector, in particular the speed of rolling out new requirements.It said any ...

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Motor Transport Power Players: 14 - Moya Greene

2015-12-29T09:00:00Z

14) Moya Greene Title: Chief executive officer, Royal MailThe Motor Transport Top 100 employ more than 331,690 people across the country. However, Royal Mail’s 143,000 employees account for 43.1% of that total. Or in other words, no one in road transport is responsible for more jobs in this industry than ...