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Voltempo has commenced series production of its advanced megawatt charging system (MCS) – the HyperCharger.
Sir Vince Cable, Chair of the eFREIGHT 2030 consortium, officially opened the facility on 23 September with a ribbon-cutting event at Tyseley En…
Methodology
The assessment considered three main criteria:
Multimodal breadth: Forwarders that integrate road, sea, air, and where relevant, rail were given priority. This flexibility allows SMEs to align shipments with budget, lead time, and potentia…
System Dynamics (SD), rooted in control theory and systems thinking45, is a method for understanding complex systems with many interacting variables and feedback loops17. As detailed in the section “Literature overview”, the road freight transport syst…
A car transporter carrying electric vehicles burst into flames on the M5[1] this morning, Wednesday, October 1, closing the motorway in both directions.
A witness reported hearing explosions as the fire broke out between Cullompton services and Exeter,…
A lorry driver has died in a crash that saw his load of timber tumble down from a motorway bridge onto the M8 in Glasgow.Police Scotland is investigating whether Tom Meikle, 61, took ill at the wheel during the incident, at about 17:30 on Tuesday.The l…
TIP’s annual charity bike ride, organised by its UK and Ireland team, has raised an incredible £127,000 for Staffordshire-based charity Douglas Macmillan Hospice – the highest amount ever achieved in the event’s history.
Now in its 11th year, the ‘Fat…
A lorry driver has died after a trailer load of timber crashed onto the M8 in Glasgow.
Emergency services were called to the M77 northbound at its merge with the M8 around 5.30pm on Tuesday.
The 61-year-old male driver of the lorry tractor unit was pro…
Preventative maintenance is not only considered a legal expectation by the DVSA but new research from business group Logistics UK’s Vehicle Inspections Service shows it can be a money saver as well – with the potential to save the UK’s Heavy Good Vehic…
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Scottish Government funding of up to £3 million will enable the construction of a new £11.2 million rail freight terminal in Inverness.
The award through the Freight Facilities Grant to West Fraser Limited will see a faci…
Krone says its Multi Safe system is helping transport operators across the UK and Europe stay compliant, safe, and efficient, offering a solution for trailer load securing that it describes as widely adopted and proven.
According to Krone, the system …