Postponement from original February dates, due to current Coronavirus wave and international travel restrictions, means a unique spring edition for the UK packaging sector’s leading event driving innovation and investment.
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Lorries bringing goods into Britain from Europe are being held up at the border following the introduction of new customs regulations this month, with hauliers warning the situation is set to get worse as trade picks up after the January lull. T…
Logistics UK has condemned the 24% hike in penalty charges on London’s red routes – which comes into force today (17 January) – as a tax on hauliers. Transport for London (TfL) is increasing the fine from £130 to £160. The penalty charge will be…
Tiger Trailers’ finance director Ed Booth has been promoted to MD of the wider group, with immediate effect. Booth’s promotion sees Tiger Trailers’ founders, John and Steven Cartwright, move from their positions as joint MDs to sit as executive …
Crunch talks between road gritters in Carmarthenshire and the local authority will take place on Monday (17 January) in an attempt to end strike action over pay and conditions. Council gritters first downed tools on 5 January after the GMB union…
Krone said its parts supply service was continuing to expand amid peak sales levels of its trailers. Trailer parts for the UK and Ireland can be ordered using its online catalogue, either by part number or by scanning the QR code stamped on the …
Sales of Krone trailers increased by 17.8% last year and its owner said he was optimistic revenues would rise again in 2022. Despite the pandemic, its commercial vehicles division reported sales of 1.37m euros in the year ending 31 July 2021, an…
HGV driver candidates are now being offered virtual reality (VR) technology to help them pass their test and get behind the wheel quicker. Training firm Easy As HGV said it was improving driver training with the use of “fully immersive VR simula…
Half a million square feet of logistics space across three units is being developed this year on an industrial estate in Peterborough, in what has been described as one of the UK’s fastest growing regions. The 21-acre site at the Peterborough So…
The HGV driver training ‘bootcamps’ launched last year with £34m of government funding have got off to flying start, according to Mark Currie, CEO of the National Logistics Academy (NLA) and Manchester training firm Mantra Learning. The target f…
The RHA has welcomed an announcement from the DfT that the rollout of new all-lane smart motorways is to be suspended. New schemes will be paused until there is a full five years of safety data on current projects. The news came alongside a £900…
A lorry driver who was looking at dating websites on his phone whilst driving at 58mph has been jailed for eight years and ten months for causing a crash that killed three people. HGV driver Ion Nicu Onut was driving a 3.5 tonne Scania LGV, carr…
Two builders’ merchant companies have been disqualified from holding HGV licences by the West Midlands Traffic Commissioner and their licences revoked. M K Builders’ Merchants, which held a restricted operator’s licence for two trucks, came befo…
The University of Westminster, as part of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight is seeking your views on how road freight operators are decarbonising their fleets, as well as the challenges resulting from Brexit and Coronavirus. Whether you ar…