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Interviews – Page 2
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ArticleEuropa: ‘The market’s dropped but we’re seeing payback on our investments…’
Dionne Redpath, chief operating officer at Europa Worldwide Group, tells MT how shrewd investments in sales and IT are keeping the business on track for further growth
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ArticleVox Pop: “The amount of administrations is scary…”
MT asks some of the industry’s leading players to assess the increasingly tough market and give their verdicts on how 2024 will play out for themselves and their competitors…
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ArticleDo not bury your head in the sand over cyber crime, hauliers warned
From left: Stephen Hards, Paul Abbott, MT editor Steve Hobson and James Hall Last month Motor Transport in association with Bosch CyberCompare held a webinar looking at the growing problem of cyber attacks. These can leave a business crippled and facing demands for ransoms that could destroy ...
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ArticleNestlé logistics head Sally Wright goes out on a high after 30 ‘phenomenal’ years
Nestlé UK and Ireland head of delivery Sally Wright has retired after more than 30 years in the industry. Wright, based at the food manufacturer’s transport hub in Haxby Road, York since 2002, left on a high note. In the last week before her retirement, Wright completed ...
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Article2024 looks challenging but will present opportunities for vehicle outsourcing specialist Zenith
Zenith is the UK’s leading independent leasing, vehicle outsourcing and fleet management provider for cars, vans, trucks and trailers, and its 1,300 employees now manage a fleet of over 170,000 vehicles. Of those 77,000 are funded as well as managed by Zenith.
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ArticleConfusion still rife over DVS and GSR requirements, say operators
TfL is due to introduce phase 2 of its Direct Vision Standard in October 2024 and it recently published the specifications for the Progressive Safe System (PSS) that trucks over 12 tonnes GVW that are rated below three stars for direct vision will need before entering London. Motor Transport in ...
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ArticleSDC continues to design and build trailers that deliver exactly what the customer needs
SDC Trailers was established 45 years ago by welder and fabricator Seamus McCloy in a tin shed small unit beside his house in the village of Bellaghy, Northern Ireland.
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ArticleTIP expands in truck rental but MD remains a trailer guy at heart
Mike Furnival Mike Furnival has been MD for the UK and Ireland region of TIP since May 2015 having joined the company as an area sales manager in 1988. Since then the company has been through several changes in ownership, including 20 years as part of GE ...
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ArticleFrom small electric beginnings big things are growing at Electra
Blackburn-based electric truck maker Electra Commercial Vehicles, winner of the 2020 Motor Transport Innovation Award, is continuing to develop its range of battery electric vehicles and looking to move to a bigger factory as it ramps up production. MD Ben Smith tells Steve Hobson about his plans.
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ArticleWith 150 years’ collective experience, Culina Group directors know a few secrets to success
It is not often MT gets to interview three recent winners of the Motor Transport Service to Industry Award who between them have almost 150 years’ experience in the transport industry.
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ArticleClimate Change Committee urges government not take its “eyes off the ball” when it comes to decarbonising road freight
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ArticleWhy a young transport lawyer harbours an ambition to be a traffic commissioner
Charlotte Hunt was appointed transport and regulatory solicitor in the growing London office of law firm Weightmans in August 2021 after almost five years with Woodfines. Having completed her law degree at the University of Hull in 2014, Hunt harbours what many would regard as an unusual ambition for someone ...
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Generation Logistics builds on success with more DfT funding for year two
Generation Logistics secured a further £300,000 of DfT funding for its second year to continue raising the profile of logistics in schools and colleges, by supporting educators with resources and materials, as well as talking directly to young people and other potential recruits to the sector by continuing a heavyweight ...
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"I wouldn't want to be the last person standing with a whole fleet of diesel trucks..."
Saul Resnick, chief executive of DHL Supply Chain UK and Ireland, discusses the company's latest financial results, its 'multi-faceted' approach to reducing emissions and why he's critical of fleet operators still reluctant to join the industry's journey to net zero Q: What’s your strategy to cut emissions? And are ...
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South Wales haulier moves with the times but struggles to see an electric future
Visitors to John Pearce Transport (JPT) in Glynneath, West Glamorgan might wonder if someone hadn’t read the memo from the Welsh Government banning new road construction, apparently to help save the environment.The A465 Heads of the Valleys road is currently undergoing major reconstruction to make it dual carriageway – when ...
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ArticleEnterprise Flex-E-Rent prepares for rapid expansion of electric vehicle fleet
Commercial vehicle contract hire and rental business Enterprise Flex-E-Rent is growing its electric van fleet and looking at bringing in its first electric trucks. Steve Hobson went to its site in Ashville Road, Gloucester, to hear about its plans to repair and maintain these vehicles.Ashville Road is a former SHB ...
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Hellmann UK turns a corner despite difficult business environment
When MT last spoke to Hellmann UK MD Markus Fellmann back in 2021, the company was emerging from a management restructure and the Covid-19 pandemic in much better shape than five years earlier when the business was loss making.Hellmann Worldwide was founded over 150 years ago and is now a ...
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Article'Rising costs have forced us to diversify and reinvent ourselves...'
Shortly before French food logistics giant Seafrigo acquired Perishable Movements Limited (PML), MT spoke to the Kent company's MD Mike Parr (pictured). In an extended interview, he explains why the sector is becoming increasingly challenging and how he's reacted...Q&AQ: What are PML's biggest current headaches?A: Increased rates. Not for this ...
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ArticleSolid backing from parent bank gives Paterson confidence in Asset Alliance's future
Asset Alliance Group (AAG) has been a long-term supporter of Motor Transport’s annual state of the trucking nation report Industry Monitor, and in the 2022 edition CEO Willie Paterson described himself as an “optimist”, as 70% of operators said they planned to add extra trucks to their fleets this year.But ...