Brian Yeardley Continental’s live event division is experiencing “explosive” growth since launching in July last year, delivering £2m in turnover in the first six months.
UK Mail is anticipating a fall in both pre-tax profit and turnover for the year ended 31 March 2016 after the installation of incompatible technology incurred huge costs.
Royal Mail has said it is “disappointing” that some 4,900 managers have threatened strike action after rejecting 1.3% pay rise offer.
Her Royal Highhness Princess Anne will speak at this year’s Microlise Transport Conference, in her capacity as patron of transport charity Transaid.
The backers of the voluntary safety scheme for the construction sector, Clocs, believe it can become the national standard for safer urban HGV movements and build on the lessons learnt during three years of operation in London. These ambitions were outlined at the fifth Clocs progress event (pictured), which took place at London’s ExCel last […]
The UK’s warehouse property stock will have vanished by the end of the decade due to demands from internet retailers, unless there is an unprecedented increase in construction.
A new high-pressure compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station is now open for business off junction 28 on the M6 near Leyland, Lancashire. Run by CNG Fuels, in partnership with National Grid, the facility is capable of ‘fast filling’ 500-plus HGVs per day, or as much as 3,500kg of CNG per hour. It also supplies […]
Driver behaviour is key to preventing serious collisions between HGVs and cyclists, according to transport training standards body RTITB. The organisation is calling for more focus on driver training to prevent cyclist fatalities, rather than predominantly concentrating on HGV technology and legislation as a solution. Pointing to recent statistics from the Royal Society for the […]
Wincanton has announced plans to trial a new fleet of remotely controlled trucks as part of a drive to lower emissions and fuel costs.