HAULIERS regularly using the A66 Trans-Pennine trunk route will face serious disruption over four weekends when the road will be closed between East Layton and West Layton due to substantial, essential resurfacing work. Lengthy diversion […]
MENZIES Distribution has opened a newstrade logistics hub in Inverness which will operate 24 hours a day and will be dedicated to managing newspaper and magazine deliveries and returns for retailers. The investment is the […]
THE SEARCH is underway to find the best liquid fuel tanker driver and fuel distribution depot in the UK and Ireland by Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA), as part of their 40th anniversary awards celebrations at […]
PALL-EX Group is now collectively owned by its UK network membership and senior management team. Since distributing 117 pallets on its first night on 29 November 1996, Pall-Ex has grown into a European network that […]
SCANIA is renaming their top of the range trucks, the S-series. Instead of the letter S followed by the actual horsepower, the new trade name will be the horsepower followed by an S, like 450S […]
THE TRAFFIC Commissioner for Scotland, Claire Gilmore, has disqualified a Dundee based scaffolding company and its director for five years following the repeated unlawful use of a vehicle. The industry regulator concluded AFS Scaffolding Ltd […]
WEST Lothian haulier Corporate Road Solutions 24:7, which traded as Beau, has entered administration with the immediate loss of 66 jobs. As Transport News went to press, KPMG was appointed to the firm as an […]
THE UK’s new heavy goods vehicle (HGV) market declined -13.1% in Q3 2019, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). 8,557 heavy trucks were registered between July and September, a result of […]
FTA HAS responded to the government’s call for evidence regarding the salary threshold for a future immigration policy. Unemployment is at its lowest on record, and with logistics currently reliant on EEA workers to help […]
MANUFACTURING firm SDC Trailers says job losses are likely at its plants due to Brexit and ‘other economic concerns’ that has resulted in a slowing down of capital purchases from retailers, logistics firms and others. […]
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