ROAD Transport Expo (RTX) will be back next year at NAEC Stoneleigh from Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 June. The popular trade show, which this year attracted more than 8,500 visitors, will once again bring […]
SCOTTISH government’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has restored the transport brief to cabinet level and appointed Màiri McAllan to take on the role alongside her existing posts to become the cabinet secretary for Transport, Net […]
Revised data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the threshold for triggering another driver shortage crisis is lower than its original data shows, writes Carol Millett. The recently published revised statistics […]
The upward trend for new HGV registrations continued for the fifth quarter in a row, reported the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). New HGVs (over 6,000kgs) registrations are up 17.2% to 11,174 units […]
SCANIA Assistance is celebrating 25 years of delivering. The in-house assistance service started in August 1998 with one support centre based in Södertälje, Sweden, dealing with 5,000 cases per year. Now the operations have 15 […]
Logistics employers across Scotland are being urged to complete an online survey which will help create a modern Driving Goods Vehicle apprenticeship, aimed at meeting the sectors current and future needs. The survey has […]
Just over one in 10 transport firms in the UK train their employees in cyber security, according to a survey. The sector, writes Chris Tindall, ranked second worst out of 18 industries polled after only […]
FERGUSONS Transport has hailed its ‘very satisfactory’ trading figures and thanked its staff for their exceptional work that got the Cramlington, Northumberland business through the pandemic, writes Chris Tindall. The haulage and warehousing company saw […]
CONSORTIUM Purchasing group has agreed a 2,500 truck order with Scania UK to be delivered over 12 months. The order will be split across the Culina Group, WS Group, A.W. Jenkinson Group and its subsidiaries. […]
SCOTTISH haulage firm Andrew Black has been fined £150,000 after one of its HGV drivers was fatally electrocuted by overhead power lines. The company, which operates out of North Berwick, pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff […]
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