The Swain Group has rebranded its Express Freight Services business as Swain Container Solutions. It is a move designed at rationalising its operations, reflecting the group’s commitment to aligning its divisions under a single brand […]
ROAD transport businesses and road fleet operators are being given the chance to cut their fuel bills by thousands of pounds per truck and reduce their environmental impact as part of a new instructor training […]
Kitchen and joinery product supplier Howdens is to refurbish half its trailer fleet and put nine new gas-powered tractor units on the road as part of a sustainability drive. TIP Group will renovate around 400 […]
Last year Ian Roger stepped onto the stage at the Crown Plaza to collect the richly deserved Industry Lifetime Achievement award. Now there is a book in the offing that charts the history of the […]
Faced with a recruitment crisis, one of the solutions to bring fresh faces into the industry is to ‘do it yourself’. The ‘it’ in DIY refers to hiring and then training people inhouse. TIP Group […]
In the latest of profiles on rigid body manufacturers, Transport News catches up with commercial vehicle bodybuilder JC Payne is closing in on a century of engineering, fabrication and production. Regular Transport News contributor Dan […]
With more than 280 exhibitors, Road Transport Expo (RTX) 2024 was bigger and better than ever, as it returned to the NAEC Stoneleigh, writes Kevin Swallow. While the ethos is ‘all about the truck’ it […]
Over several years John Mackenzie has successfully organised the Highland Historic Commercial Vehicle Road Run and 2024 was no exception, writes Ian Lawson. Quite amazing given the run this year starting in Dingwall via Lairg […]
In the third and final article of our cyber security series, former Knights of Old director Paul Abbott explained to Jack Carfrae how a ransomware attack felled a haulage firm with 450 vehicles and 900 […]
Multimodal 2024 closed with a visit from Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, in her role as patron of Transaid. For Transport News, the current issue features several ‘multimodal’ companies that made it down to […]
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