On 30th June Dennison Commercials celebrated 40 years in Newry when the current Newry Depot Manager, Malachy Martin and Dennison’s MD, John Jenkins reunited founding partners Dan O’Hare and Eugene O’Reilly with former Depot Manager Sean McCracken at the depot on Martins Lane and presented them with commemorative Volvo FH trucks. In addition, during the [&hellip
Read More »A week after the EU Referendum result, the Freight Transport Association has identified the top ten crunch issues for British logistics as the country prepares to leave the European Single Market. These will be the issues that FTA will be closely monitoring and influencing over the coming months to protect the interests of its members and [&hellip
Read More »Firestone has created a new high-performance website for its truck and bus tyre business in Europe. Fast and smooth …easy to read …in-depth tyre information …tyre finder …dealer locator …perfect for mobile devices: the new Firestone truck tyre site gives fleet managers and tyre professionals everything they need to manage their tyres better and select the [&hellip
Read More »The Freight Transport Association’s Truck Excellence and Van Excellence audits, when supplemented by additional audit items, have been recognised by Transport for London (TfL) as alternative schemes that meet TfL’s work-related road risk clauses. At an operator’s request, FTA can now supplement its Truck and Van Excellence audits with additional items covering TfL’s contractual work-related [&hellip
Read More »All lane running (the use of hard shoulders) is in the interests of all road users to minimise delays without compromising safety. RHA director of policy Jack Semple said: “Motorways are where hauliers and their drivers do much of their work and safety is key. Big trucks need a safe place to work. All lane running [&hellip
Read More »Linde Malaysia has become the latest organisation within The Linde Group to deploy Paragon’s routing and scheduling software, further optimising its expanding cylinder business’ distribution operations in the Peninsular Malaysia, and at the same time, contributing to Linde Malaysia’s operational priorities in transport safety and customer service standards. The company leverages the logistics planning software [&hellip
Read More »Wednesday 7 September sees the fourth RHA Compliance Conference at Silverstone. This extremely popular event provides the perfect forum for haulage operators to keep one step ahead of the latest changes, trends and product offerings affecting their business. Aimed at all managers, directors and owners who have direct responsibility for compliance in their business, this is now [&hellip
Read More »Following the announcement of a ‘leave’ result in the EU referendum, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) says coming out of union risks new costs, restrictions and bureaucratic requirements being imposed on moving goods in and out of Europe. These additional burdens could add costs for FTA members and disrupt the UK’s supply chains. The Government has [&hellip
Read More »More than 33 per cent of transport industry professionals do not believe autonomous vehicles will work, according to findings published today in the Microlise Transport Conference post event report. The statistics, covered in full in the dossier which has been released today, were captured during interactive voting on questions at what is now the [&hellip
Read More »Schmitz Cargobull has won the Best Brand award in the trailer category of the ETM-Verlag Image Awards. The company topped the poll in both the Plane/Curtainsider Trailer and Box/Refrigerated Body Trailer categories for the first time. More than 9,600 readers of the FERNFAHRER, lastauto omnibus and trans aktuell trade publications voted on the renowned Image award [&hellip
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