Chancellor Gordon Brown has broken faith with the freight industry by increasing diesel duty by 1.25 pence a litre, the Freight Transport Association has warned.
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TNT Express and TNT Logistics are trialling an electric 7.5 tonne truck which they reckon is the first zero emission vehicle that can compete with a diesel on urban delivery routes.
Trumac, which makes fridge box bodies, has seen an increase of 50 per cent in orders for the next quarter.
BMT Transport Solutions has been commissioned by the European Union to help develop a management structure for a European intermodal transport system.
Browns Distribution, a member of the Palletline pallet network, has bought two super-cube double deck trailers and three gas-powered forklifts, at a cost of nearly £100,000.
Buxton-based Jackson Express Deliveries has changed its name to SK Distribution.
Gefco UK has been contracted by Ficosa, the automotive systems and components manufacturer, to transfer parts on a weekly basis from European production sites in France, Spain and Slovenia to its logistics warehouse in Coventry.
Shell Gas has awarded Wincanton a three-year contract to distribute aerosol propellant gas to 28 manufacturing customers throughout the UK.
Sir Rod Eddington has called for the introduction of a road user charging scheme in his study: Transport’s role in sustaining UK’s Productivity and Competitiveness: The Case for Action.
In a change from the usual value added services, Culina is fitting more than 220,000 tiny knitted hats to bottles of fruit smoothies as a part of Innocent Drink’s third annual Supergran campaign.
