Walkers Transport has taken delivery of eight new mirrorless DAF XF 480 tractor units from Alliance Group, as part of a fleet upgrade. The new trucks, featuring the manufacturer’s Digital Vision System, which replaces the wing mirrors, are supplied on three-year contract hire deals. They join a fleet of 120 trucks and 220 trailers at […]
Macano South West has labelled its new Schmitz Cargobull Euroliner, specified with a rear-mounted forklift truck, as “the Rembrandt of trailers”. The Exeter-based general haulage firm, which transports palletised goods across the south of England and to the Czech Republic, has added the bespoke semi-trailer to its fleet to improve the loading and unloading services […]
Traffic management vehicle specialist Blakedale has reported a strong first 12 months of trading since being acquired by Northgate last summer. The Chorley-based business has seen its vehicle fleet, customer base, revenues, head count and assembly facility all grow during the year. The company said that it had grown its fleet by 49.7% to over […]
Belgium-based Sitra Group has acquired Abbey Logistics for an undisclosed sum, in a move which sees a major consolidation of the food logistics sector. Sitra Group was launched in 1962. It employs approximately 1,150 people across 11 countries including the UK and operates a fleet of 700 owned trucks and over 2,000 trailers and containers, […]
Zenith has landed a five year fleet management contract with building materials giant Travis Perkins covering the group’s fleet of 1,600 HGVs, 800 vans, 300 cars, 250 moffetts and 250 trailers. The new partnership, which will involve a full, phased transfer from the existing provider from next month, will cover service, maintenance and repair for […]
Parcel freight firm DX Group has relaunched yet another former Tuffnells Parcels Express depot, taking its reopening of former Tuffnell sites to 13, out of a total of 15 depots acquired by the group when Tuffnells went bust in June this year. The new 15,190 sq ft facility is located in Stafford, on the Beacon […]
Hermes Parcelnet, which trades as Evri, saw pre-tax profit slashed by over 50% last year as low customer confidence, high inflation, the cost of living crisis, the Ukraine War and a post-pandemic fall in online demand, all took their toll. However the company revealed this week that it is seeing better times this year, with […]
The EU Parliament’s environment committee has backed the European Commission’s plans to slash HGV emissions this week. The committee is also demanding an end to the exemption of garbage, construction and small urban trucks from EU emission targets and that trailer manufacturers deliver a 12.5% cut in trailer emission performance by 2030. While Britain is […]
XPO has forged an extended partnership agreement with Samsung Climate Solutions to provide an integrated supply chain solution using a new shared user warehouse in Leicester and its in-house pallet network for nationwide distribution. The move is in response to Samsung Climate Solution’s storage requirements which have increased by 150% in the last three years […]
Pall-Ex has secured the Gold Award for Health and Safety Performance from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) just one year after the network won the RoSPA Silver Award. Announcing its latest win, Pall-Ex said that ever since landing the RoSPA Silver Award it has had its eyes firmly set on gaining […]