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Motor Transport Power Players: 8 - Ray Ashworth
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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ArticleMotor Transport Power Players: 9 - David Hunt
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
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
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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ArticleMotor Transport Power Players: 11 - Violeta Bulc
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
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
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
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
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
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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ArticleTevva develops electric truck for city centre deliveries
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 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
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
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 ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 15 - David Wells
15) David Wells Title: Chief executive, FTAWells succeeded Theo de Pencier as chief executive of the FTA at the beginning of May. It’s unusual that the chief executives of both associations are starting their period in office at similar junctions, which makes it hard not to make comparisons with the ...
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Does the UK need a nationwide safer lorry standard? Part 1
The government has been urged to create a national definition for a ‘safe lorry’ to avoid multiple compliance standards being enforced across different cities.It has also been asked to extend to councils the power to apply their own lorry bans according to local requirements, with any exempt vehicles from such ...
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ArticleMotor Transport Power Players: 16 - Rob Flello MP
16) Rob Flello MP Title: Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Freight Transport and MP for Stoke-on-Trent SouthFlello is the pre-eminent voice in Westminster when it comes to freight. Just before the election he said that it was “a largely misunderstood industry, often disregarded, or worse, by many in ...
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Fuelling the future; what the trucks of tomorrow will run on (part 2).
Commercial Motor takes a look at what we can expect to see fuelling the trucks of the future and how the industry is making preparations (part two of two).Hybrid methodsMost hybrid applications, though, use diesel/electric technology in one form or another. There are two basic hybrid concepts, series or parallel. ...
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Motor Transport Power Players: 17 - Andrew Woolfenden
17) Andrew WoolfendenTitle: UK distribution director, TescoThere are fewer more high-profile, and demanding, jobs in road transport and logistics than running the in-house operations of (still) Britain’s biggest retailer.Tesco has had a rough 18-months, posting its worst set of annual results and a pre-tax loss of £6.38bn in February. Much-hand ...
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Fuelling the future; what the trucks of tomorrow will run on.
Commercial Motor takes a look at what we can expect to see fuelling the trucks of the future and how the industry is making preparations (part one of two).When many of us were starting off in the industry, predictions about the day the oil runs out suggested that it would ...