Landscaping products giant Marshalls has revealed the background to its win last month of the CILT (Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics) Safety Award for 2015.
Trailers
Rotherham-based operator Expressway Coaches has revealed that it successfully avoided an attempted insurance fraud recently, by using its routeMaster system to prove that its vehicle had not been...
Telematics
In a bid to help meet the transport industry’s urgent requirement for HGV drivers, Assist Resourcing and its national logistics training business, System Training, have opened a new driver training...
Driver CPC
The transport industry is offering a muted response to today’s Autumn Statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the FTA, RHA and FairfuelUK all underwhelmed.
Fleet Operating Costs
International removals firm GB Liners has added four TGM 18.250 rigids to its 70-strong fleet, which already includes 12 MAN vehicles – citing the standard third seat in the cab as among key reasons...
Rigids
Welsh haulier Owens Group has taken delivery of 26 new specialist trailers from SDC – a mix ranging from tandem and triaxle curtainsiders to double-deck step-frame curtainsiders, coil sliders and...
Trailers
Imperial Commercials has been ordered to pay £212,500 in fines and costs after one of its workers was killed when a truck travelling at less than 5km/h crushed him.
Health & Safety Legislation
MAN Truck & Bus is to launch a next generation telematics solution in the Middle East and Africa, based on the Microlise system – extending its existing partnership.
Driver / People Management
Agricultural supplies firm Wynnstay has taken delivery of a second Mercedes-Benz Arocs Triple following 12 months of excellent service from its first identical truck.
Rigids
Tomorrow’s (25 November 2015) ‘Driving Out Insider Threat’ conference, at Hampden Park, is set to field speakers from the haulage industry alongside police and academics concerned about the growing...
Driver / People Management
HGV technicians were represented for the first time at last week’s Skills Show UK (19—21 November at the NEC), which attracted more than 100,000 visitors and over 1,000 competitors in disciplines from...
Apprenticeships