Circle Express, the air freight transporter, has launched a new specialist business. It is dedicated entirely to transporting specialist goods, such as explosives, radioactive materials and highly reactive chemicals. The new subsidiary is called Circle Express Specialist Services and is approved to carry firearms (in section 5 of the ADR regulations – European agreement on [...]
Asda will be opening a new home-delivery depot later this summer. The opening will create 100 HGV driving jobs in the north London area. The supermarket giant has signed a lease for 15 years at the Acentrum Park site in Enfield, just north of London. The hub is positioned to serve north London homes. A [...]
Fowler Welch-Coolchain, HGV driving cool products specialist, has been making good progress in its last financial year. Its turnover and pre-tax profit have risen despite the sector downturn leading to a tough economic climate. Dart Group, Fowler Welch’s parent company, has released preliminary results that look positive for both firms. The operator is based in [...]
La Senza, the UK-market leading lingerie chain, has named a new delivery partner. Yodel, formerly known as the Home Delivery Network, has won the two-year contract. The delivery network will be taking over 400,000 parcels every year to customers who have bought La Senza products from their website. These deliveries include Saturday services and 72-hour, [...]
Culina Logistics has won a primary contract with dairy-farmer owned First Milk for storage and distribution. The logistics company will be mostly collecting packed cheese from First Milk’s Maelor site in north-east Wales, transporting it to Culina’s Stafford site. There it will be sorted and distributed across the UK. This particular deal was managed, up [...]
Iveco will be launching their new range of heavy trucks in time for Euro-6. The new vehicles will be powered by a new selection of diesel engines, including a 16-litre. The CEO of Iveco, Paolo Monferino, confirms that the new line-up will replace their current Stralis range in 2014. He describes the new trucks as [...]
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There were fears in the haulage industry that petrol prices were set to rise even further following the recently announced budget. But HGV driving companies all across the country breathed a sigh of relief as the true facts of the budget were revealed. The strict budget was designed to help cut Britain’s rising debt but [...]
HGV training is not all about learning how to handle the vehicle as you are in transit. It is also about knowing the rules once you have stopped the vehicle. So while you are undergoing HGV training, you will learn about parking your vehicle. Many HGV / LGV drivers find that they struggle to find [...]
The 48 hour week now applies to owner drivers too. Self employed drivers were exempt from the working time legislation in the past and were allowed to set their own working hours so long as they adhered to the drivers’ hours regulations, but that has now changed and they are bound by both sets of [...]