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Time to nominate successful women in transport and logistics
The 2015 FTA Everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards recognise the talented women working in transport and logistics.The deadline to nominate a colleague, yourself, a friend or a peer for one of seven categories is 2 February, so to showcase your own achievements, or those of someone who deserves recognition, ...
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Pall-Ex strikes continuation deal with UK Pallets
Pall-Ex has struck a deal with UK Mail Group to become the network of choice for UK Pallets customers, following the news yesterday that UK Pallets is to close.As part of the commercial arrangement, the terms of which have not been disclosed, Pall-Ex will offer assistance to the 73 hauliers ...
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UK Pallets to close
UK Pallets is to close, after parent company UK Mail pulled the plug following years of poor profitability. The closure will cost UK Mail £1m, plus asset write-downs of £2m.In a trading statement to investors UK Mail said the closure of the pallet network would be managed over the next ...
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ArticleMaidens of Telford boosts fleet after volume rise
Maidens of Telford has increased its fleet to 65 vehicles after seeing a rise in pallet volumes in 2014.MD John Maiden told Motortransport.co.uk that the firm, which covers the SY postcode area for Palletforce, said pallet work is "progressing quite nicely" and has seen an increase in business.It has this ...
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Wincanton to trial Brigade camera technology
Wincanton is to trial Brigade’s Backeye360 Select camera monitoring system on one of its 18-tonners working on its Records Management division collecting paper for shredding.As its routes are primarily in urban areas, the vehicle is in close proximity to cyclists and pedestrians on a regular basis. The camera system provides ...
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ArticleLogistics recognised in New Year's Honours List 2015
The Hub is always pleased to see the efforts of those working in transport and logistics recognised for their dedication to such a vital sector for the UK economy.Alan Ferguson, chairman and chief executive of Fergusons Transport, was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2015 for ‘services ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Foreign agency drivers
1) Foreign agency driversThe ‘perfect storm’ of a moderate recovery in the UK economy coupled with an ageing driver workforce (add in the Driver CPC deadline in September if you like) has led to a shortage of truck drivers put at 45,000 by the RHA.So if the UK’s supermarket shelves ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Barack Obama, president of the United States of America
Photograph: ddp USA/REX2) Barack Obama, president of the United States of AmericaYes the president of the USA is of course the powerful man in the world, but why put him in the MT Power Players? Simply because Obama’s embracing of fracking for shale oil and gas has led to a ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Photograph: Paul Greenwood/BPI/REX3) George Osborne, Chancellor of the ExchequerFuel duty is the sixth-largest source of income for the Treasury, bringing in around £27bn. It also accounts for 63% of the average cost of a litre of diesel in the UK. But Osborne has frozen the tax for the duration of ...
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Waitrose to close Acton DC
Waitrose is to close its Acton, west London online fulfilment DC this year, replacing it with a similar operation in south London.The Acton DC will close in the spring as the supermarket claimed the site will “almost certainly be the subject of a compulsory purchase order for HS2 in 2017”.The ...
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Power Players 2014: Beverley Bell, senior Traffic Commissioner
4) Beverley Bell, senior Traffic CommissionerSimply, were it not for Bell, and her fellow TCs, no company in road transport would have a business - which puts the statements she made in the summer in a particularly worrying context.Bell said that there are “not enough hours in the day or ...
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ArticlePalletline appoints new managing director
Palletline has named former ARR Craib group distribution director Graham Leitch as its new MD.He replaces Kevin Buchanan, who left the business last summer only to reappear at rival Pall-Ex as group MD in November 2014.Leitch was at Palletline member ARR Craib for just over a year and was previously ...
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Bibby Distribution secures one-year Havelock extension
Bibby Distribution has had its contract with retail and corporate interiors fitter and supplier Havelock extended by one year.Deliveries and collections are made using a mixed fleet of standard-length and urban artics to allow easier delivery to city centres. As the goods are often low-weight, Bibby has also added double-decker ...
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ArticleELB Partners introduces its highest ever truck safety spec on new Volvos
ELB Partners has taken delivery of two Volvo FL 18-tonners, featuring Lawrence David XL-rated curtain-sided bodies and the firm’s highest ever specification of vulnerable road user safety kit.The silver Fors member will put the vehicles into use on its Pallet-Track work in London.Fitted with Brigade equipment, they go one better ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Alastair Peoples, chief executive, DVSA
DVSA chief executive Alastair Peoples opens an ATF 5) Alastair Peoples, chief executive, DVSAIt’s hard to believe that it was only April that the DSA and Vosa merged, such has been the smooth transition under the stewardship of former Vosa chief executive Peoples. Perhaps we should not be surprised at ...
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Thousands of parcels remain in City Link network
The administrator of City Link has revealed that around 20,000 parcels remain in its network.It comes as administrator Ernst & Young announced an additional 230 redundancies on top of the 2,356 made last week.The remaining 141 staff have been retained at its HQ in Coventry and across a number of ...
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ArticleRico Logistics appoints new MD to drive growth
Rico Logistics UK and Europe has appointed a new MD, Paul Parrish.Parrish joins the same-day logistics and parts distribution company following the integration of DHL's UK Same-day business, which it acquired in October 2013.An interview with Keith Whitehead, head of strategic development, last November, revealed the business was hungry for ...
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ArticleTfL disqualifies member from Fors scheme for the first time
Transport for London (TfL) has disqualified a member of the Fors scheme for the first time: Cowan Plant of Hayes. The action came after an Industrial HGV Taskforce (IHTF) operation led to the Middlesex operator having its O-licence revoked, in addition to the company’s transport manager being disqualified indefinitely and ...
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ArticlePower Players 2014: Alex Laffey, distribution director, Tesco
Tesco truck crossing Westminister bridge6) Alex Laffey, distribution director, TescoLaffey has taken over the top job in UK supermarket logistics from Steve Strachota, the American former finance director who transformed Tesco’s distribution operation in his two years in charge.Despite its troubles, Tesco remains the UK’s biggest grocer, and after a ...