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FTA and RHA blast Welsh minister's decision to scrap M4 relief road build
The industry's leading trade associations have slammed the Welsh government’s decision to ditch plans for a £1.4m M4 relief road, announced today (4 June).The scheme would have seen a new 14-mile stretch of motorway built, parallel to the existing M4 motorway between J23A at Magor to junction 29 at Castleton, ...
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DVSA chief enforcer on Earned Recognition and private annual testing
Marian Kitson joined the DVSA as director of enforcement in September 2018 after 32 years with HMRC. Speaking to MT editor Steve Hobson at the Microlise Transport Conference in May, Kitson said the agency’s flagship Earned Recognition scheme for the most compliant operators was going well.“We now have 7% of ...
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Nicholson's Transport ceases trading after being placed into administration
Billingham-based Nicholson’s Transport has been placed into administration and ceased trading, motortransport.co.uk can reveal.Nicholson Group – the parent company - is not affected with its general haulage, Hiab, warehousing and pick and pack services continuing.However the business’s work for The Pallet Network (TPN) and The Hazchem Network has ended.Nicholson’s Transport ...
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New book reveals inside story of how TNT and Murdoch broke the union stranglehold over Fleet Street
A new book telling the inside story of how TNT UK worked with newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch to break the union stranglehold on Fleet Street has already been reprinted.‘The man who never sleeps’ is the autobiography of Tom Bell OBE, then MD of TNT UK, who famously ran trucks across ...
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Over-ambitious expansion plans contributed to Mark Priestley SDT demise
Rapid expansion and a change in the way invoices were generated were behind the failure of Slough-based Mark Priestley SDT, according to its administrator.In a report to creditors, SFP said that during 2017, turnover at the transport company more than doubled to £9m as it took on whole contract management ...
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Truck drivers 'worst affected' by air pollution
HGV drivers have the highest overall exposure to air pollution and yet are being overlooked in the air quality debate, according to scientists at King’s College London.Research by environmental charity Hubbub in cooperation with the college and The Times newspaper examined how poor air quality affected people living and working ...
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ArrowXL first two-man delivery company to use PostTag to improve delivery accuracy
Two-man home delivery specialist ArrowXL has started using PostTag to improve the speed and accuracy of its deliveries.PostTag provides far more detailed and accurate location data than postcodes; an analysis of over half a million UK addresses by PostTag shows 45% of postcodes are inaccurate by almost the length of ...
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Hauliers must use apprenticeship funding or lose it to the Treasury, warns training provider
Millions of pounds of unspent apprenticeship funding is in danger of being diverted into the Treasury’s coffers, with many operators unaware that they can transfer a quarter of their funding to subcontractors to help pay for their apprenticeship schemes.The warning came from Tony Higgins, MD of SP Training, a Carlisle ...
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Cross Transport refreshes fleet with 56 DAFs to service its Amazon work
Cross Transport has taken delivery of 56 DAF XF tractor units to facilitate its contract with Amazon.The full-service contract hire deal from Asset Alliance Group is valued at around £4.5m and replaces older assets on its fleet with new tractors spec’d with Super Space cabs.The DAFs will cover 140,000km a ...
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Eddie Stobart Logistics wins five year bulk transport deal with Lallemand
Eddie Stobart Logistics (ESL) has extended its reach in the bulk sector after clinching a five year deal with Lallemand Biofuels and Distilled Spirits (LBDS).The contract with LBDS begins this month (2 June) and will see ESL deliver logistics support for the LBDS bulk cream yeast business for the UK’s ...
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Sign up now for our webinar explaining how smart tachograph technology will affect you
Motortransport.co.uk's sister title Commercial Motor is running a free webinar session, which will explain everything you need to know about smart tachograph technology.Next month sees the biggest change in tachograph legislation in 12 years, with the introduction of the new generation of on-board, mandatory digital recorders to enforce drivers’ hours ...
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DX Group hit by loss of long-term customer Her Majesty’s Passport Office
DX Group has suffered a setback after learning its long standing deal to provide a secure delivery service to Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) will end next year.In a statement to the stock market, loss-making DX Group said that following a tender process its bid, which was based on ‘commercially ...