THE RHA was quick to congratulate Boris Johnson on his emphatic general election win and called on him to work with the freight and logistics industry on a number of key issues of vital importance […]
RESISTANCE to the take-up of alternative fuelled vehicles may be showing signs of decreasing according to Iveco’s largest truck dealer group in the UK. Robert Spittle, managing director of Guest Truck and Van, says that […]
COMMERCIAL vehicle operators are struggling to decipher their brake test reports, according to the Freight Transport Association who, to help operators understand the complex documents, has launched an online guide unsurprisingly titled ‘Brake Test Report’. […]
HAULIERS regularly using the A66 Trans-Pennine trunk route will face serious disruption over four weekends when the road will be closed between East Layton and West Layton due to substantial, essential resurfacing work. Lengthy diversion […]
MENZIES Distribution has opened a newstrade logistics hub in Inverness which will operate 24 hours a day and will be dedicated to managing newspaper and magazine deliveries and returns for retailers. The investment is the […]
THE SEARCH is underway to find the best liquid fuel tanker driver and fuel distribution depot in the UK and Ireland by Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA), as part of their 40th anniversary awards celebrations at […]
PALL-EX Group is now collectively owned by its UK network membership and senior management team. Since distributing 117 pallets on its first night on 29 November 1996, Pall-Ex has grown into a European network that […]
SCANIA is renaming their top of the range trucks, the S-series. Instead of the letter S followed by the actual horsepower, the new trade name will be the horsepower followed by an S, like 450S […]
THE TRAFFIC Commissioner for Scotland, Claire Gilmore, has disqualified a Dundee based scaffolding company and its director for five years following the repeated unlawful use of a vehicle. The industry regulator concluded AFS Scaffolding Ltd […]
WEST Lothian haulier Corporate Road Solutions 24:7, which traded as Beau, has entered administration with the immediate loss of 66 jobs. As Transport News went to press, KPMG was appointed to the firm as an […]
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