October 2023

Hessle, East Yorkshire-based Neill & Brown Global Logistics has made the largest change to its board in four decades after it appointed three new directors. Long-term employee Stuart Dean has been made portable movements operations director. He joins the board along with newcomers Paul Allon, who has been appointed the company’s finance director and Dominic […]

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The UK risks falling behind on decarbonising HGVs while the EU races ahead, according to a green transport thinktank. Transport & Environment (T&E) said that despite the government announcing £200m of funding for truck decarbonisation projects, it paled into insignificance compared to EU progress. It said the UK had plenty of ambition but was lacking […]

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The EU Parliament’s environment committee has backed the European Commission’s plans to slash HGV emissions this week. The committee is also demanding an end to the exemption of garbage, construction and small urban trucks from EU emission targets and that trailer manufacturers deliver a 12.5% cut in trailer emission performance by 2030. While Britain is […]

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XPO has forged an extended partnership agreement with Samsung Climate Solutions to provide an integrated supply chain solution using a new shared user warehouse in Leicester and its in-house pallet network for nationwide distribution. The move is in response to Samsung Climate Solution’s storage requirements which have increased by 150% in the last three years […]

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A lorry driver who crashed into a car on the hard shoulder, leaving an eight year old girl with life-changing injuries, has been jailed. Warwick Crown Court heard how Dominic Nicholls, 51, of Hadleigh, Suffolk, crashed into the back of the family’s Nissan X-Trail which had broken down on the M42 in Warwickshire, in April […]

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Amazon has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)–based technology that can spot even the smallest anomalies in delivery vans—from tyre deformities and undercarriage wear to bent or warped body pieces—before they become on-road problems. The retail giant is launching the new Automated Vehicle Inspection (AVI) in partnership with tech start-up UVeye in the the UK, […]

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