Speaking at the recent DAF trucks 2005 review, Professor Garel Rhys OBE, outlined some of his views regarding how the UK truck market might look in the year 2020.
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Speaking at Forbes House, the home of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Stuart Hunt, the managing director of DAF trucks, reviewed the growth in the UK truck market through 2005.
Container transport specialist, W Carter (Haulage), a part of the CEL Group, has replaced 61 of its premium duty tractor unit fleet with MAN TGA 26.430 6×2 units – all with MAN’s TipMatic automatic gearboxes.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed that the EU drivers’ hours and working-time rules will be temporarily relaxed for drivers directly affected by the Buncefield fire.
Police are speaking to a tanker driver, over fears he may have inadvertently sparked the Buncefield fire, that devastated the Hemel Hempstead fuel depot.
Freightliner, the rail logistics specialist, has announced the addition of Doncaster to its UK network.
UPS, the $36Bn package delivery giant, has announced a new management structure in UK and Ireland.
It seems that everybody is doing it. Deutsche Post and Exel are doing it. Kuehne & Nagel and ACR Logistics are doing it. And now Logistics Manager and Supply Chain Business are doing it. What we are all doing, of course, is getting together.
Unitrans, the South African logistics group, has bought the majority of shares in Concorde, the UK technical logistics company, in a deal worth £19.95m.
Lorry drivers will be limited to a five day working week on alternate weeks from 2007, the European Union has decided. Under new drivers hours rules, drivers will have to take a 45 hour weekly rest in any two weeks.
