Paccar, parent company of DAF Trucks saw earning slip to $663.9 million for the first half of 2007 from $711.9 m last year.
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Palletways has opened a hub in Spain to serve its growing Iberian business.
Asda has opened is national distribution centre at Redhouse Business Park, Doncaster.
The Freight Transport Association has told Exchequer Secretary Angela Eagle that she must abandon plans to increase fuel duty by 2 pence per litre from 1 October.
The focus was firmly on the environment at the Scala annual logistics debate last month.
Simon Plant and Daniel Plant, of SFP have been appointed Joint Administrators of FDB Distribution, based at Kingswinford in the West Midlands.
Sainsbury’s has been working with Port of London Authority to trial delivering food to Sainsbury’s stores in London by river.
The recent earthquake in north west Japan has sent reverberations through the supply chains of Japan’s leading car makers. And once again, questions are being asked about the risks involved in single sourcing and lean production systems.
Transport secretary Ruth Kelly has promised more than £200 million to start work on a strategic freight network.
The ERF name is finally disappearing from the UK road transport industry following the decision by MAN to stop branding vehicles with the ERF name.
