The proposed London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) offers poor value for money, excludes 94 per cent of the capital’s vehicle population, and will not enable air quality targets to be met according to the Freight Transport Association.
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Target Express has completed the first commercial mailing through its new postal service, Target Post.
The increase of 9.5 per cent means that rail freight has grown by 60 per cent since 1995, and that the amount of freight moved, measured by billion net tonne kilometres, is at its highest level since 1977.
The advice from the government is that operators will need to be ready to use digital tachographs in new HGVs and PSVs from May this year.
Tradeteam, an Exel company and now part of DHL, has won a four-year contract with Mitchells & Butlers, the leading operator of managed pubs and restaurants in the UK.
NYK Logistics has secured a new five-year contract to manage the parts distribution for one of Nifco UK’s major automotive customers.
Shropshire-based Pendragon Haulage has added an Iveco Stralis Executive Space to its fleet of 16 commercial vehicles.
The US president, George W Bush has said that he will veto any law blocking a deal giving an Arab company control of five US ports.
Volga-Dnepr Airlines played an important role in the successful launch of NASA’s $700m ‘New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, the one remaining planet that has never been visited by a spacecraft.
Asda has come under fire again this month from the General Workers Union (GMB), amid claims that the supermarket’s daily target pick rate of 1,400 boxes is equivalent to exercising for eight hours in a gym.
