It is not often MT gets to interview three recent winners of the Motor Transport Service to Industry Award who between them have almost 150 years’ experience in the transport industry. But this rare opportunity came about in August this year when Culina Group CEO Thomas van Mourik, his deputy William Stobart and non-executive director […]
In 2022 there were 5,086 notifications of theft from trucks over 7.5 tonnes GVW in the UK with losses valued at £66m – but the true net cost could be seven times that figure or over £460m once all the hidden costs such as damage to reputations and vehicles are taken into account, according to […]
Preston-based FDC Holdings celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022 and describes itself as “one of Lancashire’s premier freight transport companies”. Specialising in palletised freight, it has been a member of The Pallet Network for 23 years and can provide nationwide collection and delivery of consignments from a single pallet to full trailer loads. Ian Maudsley, […]
Generation Logistics secured a further £300,000 of DfT funding for its second year to continue raising the profile of logistics in schools and colleges, by supporting educators with resources and materials, as well as talking directly to young people and other potential recruits to the sector by continuing a heavyweight social media campaign. Transport secretary […]
While the logistics industry does not need more government handouts to fund the move to net zero carbon emissions, it does want more clarity and certainty over key policy decisions to enable the industry to make the huge investments that will be needed with confidence. That was the message from Logistics UK’s first finance forum […]
Visitors to John Pearce Transport (JPT) in Glynneath, West Glamorgan might wonder if someone hadn’t read the memo from the Welsh Government banning new road construction, apparently to help save the environment. The A465 Heads of the Valleys road is currently undergoing major reconstruction to make it dual carriageway – when no doubt a camera-enforced […]
Commercial vehicle contract hire and rental business Enterprise Flex-E-Rent is growing its electric van fleet and looking at bringing in its first electric trucks. Steve Hobson went to its site in Ashville Road, Gloucester, to hear about its plans to repair and maintain these vehicles. Ashville Road is a former SHB Hire depot (see panel) […]
When MT last spoke to Hellmann UK MD Markus Fellmann back in 2021, the company was emerging from a management restructure and the Covid-19 pandemic in much better shape than five years earlier when the business was loss making. Hellmann Worldwide was founded over 150 years ago and is now a fast-growing global multimodal logistics […]
Almost all new refuse collection vehicles in London should be electric, according to Carlos Rodrigues, MD of Renault Trucks. Briefing journalists in London last week, Rodrigues said it was time to “walk the talk” and take the immediate opportunity to follow progress in electric buses by electrifying the waste sector. “The vast majority of RCV […]
Asset Alliance Group (AAG) has been a long-term supporter of Motor Transport’s annual state of the trucking nation report Industry Monitor, and in the 2022 edition CEO Willie Paterson described himself as an “optimist”, as 70% of operators said they planned to add extra trucks to their fleets this year. But the launch of the […]