The Freight Transport Association has welcomed new legislation that requires new tyres to be labelled for fuel efficiency, wet grip and noise performance
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The offer period for UPS’s proposed acquisition of TNT Express has been extended until 28 February 2013 with the approval of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)
The European Commission has produced a Statement of Objections to the UPS takeover of TNT which sets out the Commission’s provisional position on the competitive impact of the deal of the parcels delivery market in Europe
Acumen Distribution reckons it is saving 63,000 road miles a year in its trial of longer semi-trailers
Factory bodied DAF LF and DAF CF trucks will be approved under new EC Whole Vehicle Type Approval regulations two year ahead of the deadline required for independent body builders
Ian Jones, who recently retired as managing director of Mercedes Benz Commercial Vehicles, has become a non-executive director of Howard Tenens
United Parcel Service now expects its 5.16bn euro takeover of TNT Express to be completed in early 2013
Susanna May of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is to be keynote speaker at the FSDF conference which takes place in Nottingham at the end of September
Justine Greening has been replaced as secretary of state for transport in a move widely seen as punishment for opposing further expansion at Heathrow
The British International Freight Association has urged members to ensure that their procedures, when accepting consignments for shipment, are as tight as possible in the face of a growing trade in fake products
