The Freight Transport Association has welcomed government plans to abandon the narrow focus of its congestion charging policy via the Transport Innovation Fund in favour of the Urban Challenge Fund.
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It’s been very long slow process, but the government is coming round to the idea that there is a logic to making deliveries at nights and weekends. Malory Davies looks at proposals
Ryder Europe is adding 613 replacement vehicles to its 2,000-strong fleet, in a deal worth £18 million.
The German government is pushing ahead with its target of getting one million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, by trialling a fleet of Smith Electric Vehicles.
Retailers are being invited to take part in trials of a noise mitigation scheme that would allow lorries to make urban deliveries at night and weekends when they are normally banned.
APC Overnight has purchased the first Eco Urban trailer designed by Yorkshire-based W Trailer Co.
DAF is making many of its urban delivery vehicles EEV compliant as standard from January. The move involves all models in the LF range using the Paccar FR 4.5 litre engine.
Sainsbury’s is to buy 50 electric vans for its online grocery delivery service to add to its added to the existing fleet of 20.
Clipper Logistics Group has signed a contract with Urban UK to provide logistics services for US retailer Anthropologie, which opened its first European branch on Regent Street this month.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Agility Defence and Government Services a contract to manage the receipt, warehousing and re-export of food aid and commodities.
