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Clipper Logistics to train warehouse workers as drivers across UK
Clipper Logistics will train its warehouse staff to be HGV drivers under a new initiative across the UK. The training initiative, Resolve, will see the operator train warehouse staff and put them through their Cat C test over the course of a year.The scheme was originally piloted at Clipper's Swadlincote ...
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MT ArticleSDC Trailers makes former Schmitz Cargobull manager UK sales director
SDC Trailers has appointed a former Schmitz Cargobull sales manager as its UK sales director. David MacDonald joins SDC after 17 years with Schmitz, where he held a number of sales management roles covering the UK, Ireland and international markets.SDC Trailers CEO Enda Cushnahan said: "SDC are delighted to bring ...
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MT ArticleFortec builds new management team after network director's departure
Fortec has revamped its leadership team after its former network director and general manager of operations left the business last year. The network's new business unit director Craig Johnson joined Fortec last year after two years with Irish food company Greencore. He has also worked as a general manager at ...
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MT ArticleDavid Hauff appointed general manager of Wincanton's EnergyLink
Wincanton has appointed David Hauff as general manager of Wincanton’s EnergyLink operation.The EnergyLink service which Hauff will head up was launched in 2016, and aims to support the ground fuels, aviation and bitumen markets by lowering distribution costs.One of Hauff's key priorities in his new role will be to focus ...
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MT ArticleApprentices graduate from Mercedes-Benz apprenticeship programme
Apprentices from Mercedes-Benz dealer SparshattsA trio of young technicians has graduated from the Mercedes-Benz apprenticeship programme.The three technicians James Wickham, Ethan Macrae and Dan Goodwin joined the course three years ago in the hopes of becoming a technician.Goodwin, aged 21, had spent a year at college, studying to be an ...
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Eddie Stobart hires two new sector directors
Eddie Stobart has added two new sector directors to its operations team in order to improve its customer service offering.Antony Leighton has been appointed sector director of manufacturing and industrial and bulk and Nick Winder is the Sector director for retail.Leighton joins with 22 years experience in transport and logistics, ...
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Ryder appoints UK head of area sales
Ryder has appointed Nick Allera as it head of area sales.Allera (pictured) has 27 years of experience in commercial vehicle operations. Before he was appointed, he was a operations manager for Ryder.Allera will lead Ryder's area sales management team across the UK, he will report to John Murray who is ...
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MT ArticleHGV instructor register signs up more than 500 members in its first year
An HGV instructor register is celebrating a “hugely successful” first year after attracting more than 540 members.The National Register of HGV Instructors (NRI) launched in January 2017 and since then it has had over 20 exam centres approved and carried out 103 examinations.It is committed to promoting higher standards of ...
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MT ArticleFTA buys dangerous goods training provider TrainingTeam
The FTA has bought specialist training provider T Team, which trades as TrainingTeam. The training provider teaches courses across the UK and online specialising in the movement of dangerous goods by road, rail and sea as well as air cargo security.FTA CEO David Wells said that the move allowed the ...
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MT ArticleNew gig for AKW Group management training graduate
AKW Group has promoted management trainee George Richards to network support manager. Richards (pictured) joined AKW in 2015 as a transport POD clerk, and AKW said his enthusiasm and eagerness led to a promotion onto the management training programme just months later in January 2016.During his first year in the ...
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MT ArticlePalletways UK celebrates apprenticeship scheme's fifth anniversary
Palletways UK has celebrated the fifth birthday of its apprenticeship scheme. Since it launched at the end of 2012, 17 apprentices have entered the scheme, with 11 recieving full time employment at its completion.The scheme's apprentice retention rate stands at 79%, which Palletways UK MD Dave Walmsley celebrated as "well ...
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MT ArticleThompsons welcomes Sheri Gibbons as its new business development manager for the South East
Tipper bodybuilder Thompsons (UK) has appointed Sheri Gibbons as its new business development manager for South East England.Working out of the company headquarters in Croydon, Gibbons’s role will be to develop customer relations across the Home Counties, East Anglia, Sussex and the South Coast, and seek out further business opportunities ...
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MT ArticleExclusive Everywoman Academy offer with Motor Transport
Motor Transport readers can make use of a 20% discount offer for this year’s Everywoman Academy.The one day academy is perfect for women within the road transport sector seeking career advice or motivation.Those speaking at the event include Marianne Culver, managing director at TNT UK, and Lieutenant Commander Elaine Boyd, ...
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MT ArticleUpgrade your skills and qualifications for free
Aspire, the CILT Careers Foundation, has grants available to applicants for a range of professional qualifications offered by the CILT. As company training programmes become more specialised and places on professional development schemes are subject to intense competition, it can be difficult to get the backing from employers to fully ...
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Staffing Matters: 50+ drivers: skills and retention for logistics
I want to continue what I shared last month - the unexpected opportunities we may be able to tap into for the logistics industry through attracting workers aged 50+.I was surprised to learn this trend continues even after the possibility of retirement, and in fact recent figures show that the ...
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MT ArticleThink Logistics kickstarts 2015 with a hat-trick of operator initiatives
Think Logistics has got off to a flying start this year with several major operators lining up to deliver workshops or offer mentoring support for students keen to learn more about the logistics sector.Eddie Stobart Logistics held an event earlier this month at West Derby School in Liverpool – the ...
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Bibby launches apprenticeship scheme for school leavers
Bibby Distribution has launched a 12-month apprenticeship scheme to attract school leavers into the logistics sector.The RightStart programme will see youngsters embarking on Level 2 apprenticeships at four different Bibby Distribution sites in the Midlands and South West to experience a cross-section of the markets the business operates within.At the ...
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MT ArticleDHL launches Military Employability Programme
DHL, which employs more than 42,000 people in the UK, has launched its own Military Employability Programme to recruit drivers from the ranks of those leaving the armed forces.In partnership with the Careers Transition Partnership (CTP), a joint initative between the MoD and recruiter Manpower, the logistics giant has ...
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Career Academies given £50,000 boost to expand in logistics sector
Career Academies UK has been awarded a £50,000 pot of funding to help launch five new UK logistics academies.The funding has been provided by independent education charity the Edge Foundation, which praised Careers Academies for "fantastic work raising awareness of the many paths of success" in the logistics sector.The UK's ...
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Get involved to raise awareness of logistics careers
Operators have been urged to get involved in the Think Logistics initiative to raise awareness among school children and college students of the careers available in road transport.Think Logistics, led by Abbey Logistics MD Steve Granite, has developed an off-the-shelf package of materials that any operator can use as the ...