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ArticleDPD publishes details and more video of its £150m Hinckley Park hub project
DPD has broadcast construction footage of its new £150m hub in Hinckley, Leicestershire, which it said will be the largest domestic parcel hub in Europe when operational in 2022.Aerial footage shared on a video today (19 June) shows the footprint of the 276,454sq ft main hub building and the infrastructure ...
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CLEAN AIR ROADSHOW
On 10 September 170 delegates from 120 commercial vehicle operators and local businesses, running vans or trucks in and around Greater Manchester, attended a free half-day Greater Manchester Clean Air Roadshow.Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and the 10 Greater Manchester authorities are working together to ...
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Leeds and Birmingham "significantly postpone" clean air zone start dates
Leeds and Birmingham councils are to "significantly postpone" the January 2020 start dates of their clean air zones (CAZs) after a government delay to an essential online tool it is developing.In a joint statement issued today (18 June), the two councils said they had been on track to roll out ...
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ArticleWincanton launches VAST new warehousing initiative
Wincanton has gone live with its Virtual Access to Storage and Transport (VAST) service, a new initiative that sees the 3PL playing matchmaker for customers looking for warehouse space.Wincanton said the platform matches buyers with sellers, allowing companies seeking storage to find it quickly and landlords to advertise underutilised space ...
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Central government must support London's electric future, says FTA
The government has an essential role to play in the roll-out of electric charging infrastructure across the capital, according to the FTA.Speaking after the launch of the London’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Taskforce Delivery Plan yesterday (17 June), Denise Beedell, policy manager for vans and urban at the FTA, said that ...
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Smart tachographs will not deliver massive efficiency savings, says FTA
The FTA has refuted the European Commission’s claim that logistics firms will save a total of €500m (£447m) through increased efficiencies due to the introduction of a new generation of smart tachographs.While the FTA agrees with the EC that the requirement to fit smart tachographs to all new HGVs ...
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Volkswagen offers 15% slice of Traton Group in IPO launch
Volkswagen has scaled back its IPO ambitions for its truck division Traton Group, which includes the brands MAN and Scania, and is now offering 15% of the company’s shares.Originally, Volkswagen had intended to offer 25% of Traton to investors.The manufacturer has now published a prospectus and launched its offer ...
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ArticleDiscover how in-cab and forward-facing cameras are purchased and deployed in this case-study-rich report
The fitting of in-cab and forward-facing cameras has increasingly become the norm among road hauliers in the UK.The benefits of the technology are enormous. It can be used to prevent crime, raise driving standards, and lower insurance premiums, as well as boost road safety. And adoption continues to increase as ...
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Pallet tail-lift delivery guidance faces further delay
The long-awaited publication of the HSE’s updated tail-lift delivery guidance is facing further delay, some five years after HSE launched a review.HSE confirmed this week that it has “comments” that it wants the RHA working group on to consider, after which the guidance will be put through “internal governance procedures” ...
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ArticleFirst Renault Master ZE full electric in Europe hits the streets of Kent
Renault Trucks has put the first Master ZE full electric vehicle in Europe on the road with Kent County Council. The 57kW Master ZE nine-seat minibus has a 33kWh battery pack giving a range of 120km and will be used by Compaid, a charity helping disadvantaged people back into work.Handing ...
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ArticleBullet Express to build £5m multi-temperature warehouse to meet surge in demand
Bullet Express has bought 180,000sq ft of land behind its Baillieston, Glasgow storage centre with plans to build a £5m multi-temperature warehouse to meet rocketing demand from customers.The company moved to the 21,000 pallet site at Baillieston in 2016 and MD David McCutcheon said it was now at client capacity, ...
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No-deal Brexit will cause 'paralysis at the border' in Northern Ireland with lengthy delays for HGVs seeking passage
A no-deal Brexit could result in one lorry every 30 seconds being subjected to checks at the border in Northern Ireland, according to the FTA.Seamus Leheny, FTA policy manager, predicted “paralysis at the border” if the UK crashes out of the EU later this year without a deal and therefore ...
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Morrisons to outsource part of its transport and vehicle maintenance operation to Wincanton
Supermarket chain Morrisons is to outsource a sizeable slice of its transport operation, alongside several vehicle maintenance departments to Wincanton.A spokesman told motortransport.co.uk: "We are transferring our transport departments at three sites and vehicle maintenance departments at five sites to be operated by logistics specialists Wincanton, who will provide this ...
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ArticleChichester operator NV Transport enters liquidation
NV Transport in Chichester has entered liquidation with the loss of 50 jobs.Following a meeting at the company on 29 May, FRP was appointed to voluntarily wind up the business and auction off its assets.According to joint liquidator Ian Vickers, the business, whose principal trading address was in Runcton and ...
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Fortec Distribution Network likely to reinstate a northern hub this year
The Fortec Distribution Network plans to open a northern hub in a bid to unlock Scotland by the year’s end.Speaking to mototransport.co.uk, Adrian Bradley, MD of the pallet network, said that the previous management team’s decision to scuttle Fortec’s northern hub in Warrington would now almost certainly be reversed.“We’re just ...
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ArticleTNT and Royal Mail take Freight titles at 2019 everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards
The 14 winners of this year’s everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards have been announced today (13 June), with TNT and Royal Mail taking the top spots for the Freight Award.Now in its 12th year, the awards champion women in the transport and logistics sector, recognising industry role models.The Freight ...
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ArticleDFDS to be first operator to use autonomous vehicle Vera in port operation
DFDS will be the first operator to use autonomous vehicle, Vera, in a delivery operation on public roads, Volvo Trucks’ has said.The fully electric, connected vehicle will be used to transport containers from a DFDS distribution centre to a port terminal in Gothenburg, Sweden.Although the date Vera will enter full ...
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Pallet-Track recruits Julian Maturi as new chairman
Pallet-Track has appointed Julian Maturi as the network’s new non-executive chairman, replacing John Allen.Maturi is arguably best known for his time at rival pallet network Palletways, most recently as chairman of the business – in both non and executive versions of the role.He left Palletways after the sale to Imperial ...
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ArticleMorrisons at Amazon service to come to more UK cities
Morrisons and Amazon are expanding their “ultra-fast” same-day delivery service to more cities across the UK.The service, dubbed Morrisons at Amazon, forms part of the online retailer's Prime Now operation. It is already available in four cities: Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, and parts of London as well as the home counties.Customers ...
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ArticleUK becomes first country to enshrine 2050 net zero greenhouse gas target in law
The government has committed to a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.It today (12 June) updated the 2008 Climate Change Act, which previously aimed for an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions based on 1990 levels.This new law makes the UK the first major country to propose ...