DIY retailer Homebase has purchased six 13.6m step-frame tri-axle box van lifting deck trailers and six 13.7m ratchet deck curtain-siders from Don-Bur.
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Symbol Technologies, has launched the VC5090 vehicle/fixed-mount mobile computer, which it says combines a rugged construction and high performance processing with wireless networking to enable real-time data access on forklifts used in the harshest envir
The FTA and RHA are calling on the government to introduce a system of collecting information from visiting hauliers, which it says would protect the integrity of UK road safety and which could be used to form a formal European database exchange.
Palletways London, which was created to provide a hub facility for depots in the capital and the South East, is expanding its operations on the back of significant growth in the business.
Professor Alan McKinnon, director of Logistics Research at Heriot –Watt University, said that at any given time, there is £460m worth of freight in transit on UK roads.
Iveco has launched a new version of its Daily van. The Daily is aimed at transport professionals and, like a truck, is built on a steel chassis enabling it to come in some 3,000 different configurations from vans to chassis-cabs and mini-buses.
Hutchison Ports (HPUK) has signed a new contract with LDH (La Doria), extending the current contract until at least the end of February 2009.
Evergreen Marine Corp, Hapag-Lloyd Container Line and Wan Hai Lines are to launch a new weekly service linking India with Hong Kong, Shekou and Kaohsiung at the end of April.
Ryder had a significant annual temporary agency labour spend. More than 200 agencies were supplying the company with staff throughout the UK resulting in numerous agency invoices and timesheets being processed at considerable cost.
Herefordshire haulier ABE (Ledbury) has won a contract with DHL to distribute silage wrap to farms and agricultural suppliers nationwide over the summer.
