Industry News

Motor Transport Power Players: 10 – Dwain McDonald

January 2, 2016 Peter Steele

10) Dwain McDonald Title: Chief executive, DPDgroup UK Five 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.

Industry News

Motor Transport Power Players: 11 – Violeta Bulc

January 1, 2016 Peter Steele

11) Violeta Bulc Title: European Commissioner for Transport Slovenian 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 power when it comes […]

Compliance & legislation

Sheriff makes recomendations after Glasgow bin lorry tragedy – part 1

January 1, 2016 Emma Shone

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 John Beckett QC placed […]