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ArticlePanther Warehousing acquires Hi-Way Express Home Delivery
Panther Warehousing has acquired West Yorkshire-based two-man delivery company Hi-Way Express Home Delivery for an undisclosed sum.The business, which is part of the Crick-based Panther group, has acquired Hi-Way Express and its 200,000ft² warehouse in Castleford from domestic appliance company Pacifica Group.Hi-Way has no vehicles or drivers and subcontracts all ...
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Potter Group feels benefit of House of James acquisition
The acquisition of House of James by Potter Logistics last year has helped contribute to a 52% growth in turnover for the York-based firm.For the year-ending 30 April 2013 it posted a turnover of £22.8m (less contributions from its Chloros Environmental waste management joint venture) and a pre-tax profit of ...
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TNT Express turnover falls after loss of contract
TNT Express has seen a drop in both turnover and operating profit, following the loss of a contract with a major fashion retailer in the UK.The operator’s Q3 2013 results revealed that adjusted operating profit for its Europe Main division (UK and Ireland, Benelux, France, Germany and Italy), fell by ...
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ArticleSafetykleen orders 85 new Ivecos
Safetykleen, the hazardous waste management company, has renewed its fleet with 85 new vehicles.The company has purchased a range of trucks from 61 5.5 tonne Iveco Daily vans through the weight range up to three 44-tonne tractor units.The new vehicles will be rolled out during the next couple of months ...
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Yusen Logistics renews Nissan manufacturing contract
Yusen Logistics has renewed its contract with Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK), a contract it has held since 2008.As a result Yusen will provide the inbound logistics to Nissan’s plant in Sunderland, providing components for the Qashqai, Note, Juke and Leaf vehicles.Yusen MD Ian Veitch said: “This is great news which ...
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ArticleCharles Gee Group administrators still seek buyers for subsidaries
FRP Advisory, the administrators of Charles Gee Group, has confirmed to Motortransport.co.uk that it is still seeking a buyer for some of its road transport interests.Earlier today it emerged that C&H (Hauliers) had been acquired by CM Downton, but that deal primarily applies to Charles Gee's transport interests in the ...
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ArticleDHL Supply Chain takes on 63 dual fuel trucks
DHL Supply Chain’s Consumer division has become the latest – and among the biggest – investor in gas-powered trucks with the replacement of most of its 70-strong fleet based at its multi-user DC at Bawtry near Doncaster, south Yorkshire, with Volvo FM MethaneDiesel dual fuel 6x2 tractor units.The large scale ...
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ArticleC&H (Hauliers) acquired by CM Downton
C&H (Hauliers) has been acquired by CM Downton in a deal that creates a £114m a year turnover haulage group.Charles Gee Group, parent company to C&H, entered administration last week citing "acute cash-flow problems".Downton - MT Haulier of the Year 2012 - had a turnover of £93m in the financial ...
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UPS hopeful Christmas strike action can be avoided
UPS remains hopeful that strike action can be avoided in the run up to Christmas, despite the Unite union’s plan to ballot staff for action at the operator’s London depot in Camden.The union has claimed that the 120 drivers and loaders at the operator’s Camden depot are being forced to ...
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Suttons Group expands in China
Suttons & Sons acquisition today of Han Chi Logistics Co in China is a sign of the times for the Widnes-based firm. It makes far more money outside of the UK than it does in it.To put it in simpler terms – Sutton & Sons (St Helens), the ‘British’ bit ...
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UK faces months of uncertainty over rural fuel duty rebate
Treasury officials have indicated it will probably take seven to nine months for the European Commission to make its decision about an extension of the UK’s rural fuel duty rebate scheme.Motortransport.co.uk understands that the UK’s recent application to extend the original scheme to 10 new towns in England and Scotland ...
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ArticlePlenty of goodwill for Goodwill
Following his appointment as transport minister Robert Goodwill MP made one of his first public appearances at last night's Retail Motor Industry Federation annual dinner at the plush Dorchester in London's Park lane. The car and truck dealers gave the affable Tory MP for Scarborough and Whitby a warm enough ...
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Trucks more likely to be involved in accidents because they're big. Fact?
Last month charity Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) published a report that measured the out-swing of a 15.65m longer semi-trailer.The research was jumped on by Labour shadow transport minister Richard Burden MP last week, who suggested the government should scrap the longer semi-trailer trial and instead focus on shifting freight ...
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Premier Logistics to launch refused loads service at new HQ
Premier Logistics will shortly begin offering a refused loads service at its new 200,000ft² home in Coalville, Leicestershire.It took possession of the new site last week.“We’re a mile off junction 22 of the M1,” said commercial manager Mark Steel. “We see a lot of scope for helping out operators travelling ...
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ArticleHighways Agency campaigns to cut accidents at roadworks
The Highways Agency has launched a national awareness campaign designed to encourage drivers to slow down and take proper care in roadworks. The campaign, which includes a national radio advertising programme that began on Monday 21 October and runs into early November, is intended to drive down workplace accidents among ...
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ArticleParting is such expensive sorrow (for Stobart)
Photo: ShutterstockOne power struggle later and former Stobart executive chairman Avril Palmer-Baunack is but a small line in Stobart Group’s solid six month results.The former Autologic boss Palmer-Baunack was ousted after just three months in the job back in May, and from media coverage of events The Hub suspects all ...
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ArticleHome Delivery cuts costs with telematics system
Chesterfield-based home delivery specialist Home Delivery Solutions (HDS) has cut its insurance premium by £80,000 and estimates it is saving £10,000 a year on fuel costs after installing a Mandata telematics system 18 months ago.HDS was set up seven years ago and now operates 43 vehicles on home deliveries for ...
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Potter restates concerns over noise at Olympia Park
Potter Logistics' planning agent has written once again to Selby District Council to restate the firm’s objections to a planned residential development at Olympia Park in North Yorkshire, following the release of an updated noise report on the site. The residential development, plans for which were submitted in May last ...
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Industry bodies welcome Liverpool bus lane trial
The industry’s two main trade associations have welcomed the start of a trial in Liverpool designed to test the effect on congestion of removing the city’s bus lanes. The trial, which began on 21 October, will last nine months and sees all Liverpool’s bus lanes being suspended – along with ...
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ArticleNorbert Dentressangle takes on e-fulfilment for Surfdome
Online clothing, footwear and lifestyle accessory supplier Surfdome has appointed Norbert Dentressangle to manage its e-fulfilment operation.ND, which took over the management of Surfdome’s Wembley warehouse in late 2012, has since transferred the operation to a new 112,000ft² facility in Wellingborough, handling over 900 lifestyle, fashion, outdoor and sports brands.The ...