At a recent event in Stoke-on-Trent, Witron unveiled plans for the future as well as describing its

A new warehouse complex for Sharp Interpack’s site at Aylesham in Kent has been fitted-out by Designed Storage with Hi-Lo’s Premierack storage.

The company has been in the UK market for many years supporting the operations of its parent Peugeot group and has been expanding its operations with third party customers so that its sales are now in the region of £200m.

When the government – perhaps influenced by the gremlin-plagued German automated “Maut” system for truck road user charging – decided to put LRUC in the too-difficult basket, at least for the foreseeable future,

Business Computer Projects (BCP) and Avery Berkel have formed a partnership to launch an integrated point of sale and weighing solution on a single item of hardware.

Secureseal has launched a system to manage trailer assets and prevent the theft of goods in transit. It transmits trailer door seal information automatically before a vehicle passes a gatehouse, with status sent to a gatehouse PC or a PC via the web.

Cranleigh Freight Services has taken delivery of two mega double deck road trains for the European fleet.

Ian Stirling Haulage is the winner of the Skills for Logistics award for Scotland’s Top Training Road Haulage Operator.

The government’s high fuel duty strategy, coupled with the increasing operation of foreign lorries in the UK, is causing serious problems for the Scottish transport industry, according to the FTA.

RFID technology has not yet delivered in all that many places, Peter Ward, supply chain and RFID leader for IBM UK told delegates to the Institute of Grocery Distribution’s 6th Retail Logistics Summit in London last month.