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Pallet networks team up Volvo global sales rise to form industry group except for the US
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EIGHT OFTHE UK's pallet networks have joined forces in the Association of Pallet Networks (APN) to benchmark standards in the industry.
Chairman Paul Sanders, who is MD of Deker Trailers, says APN will initially consider health and safety standards within the industry; an action group has been set up to look at the issue.
The group will look at visiting driver standards and forklift driver standards initially as well as seeking to suggest commonality across the industry."
Sanders reports: "APN will also be a platform to promote pallet networks to customers,hauliers and the public sector."
The founder members are:Palletforce,Palletways, Pall-Ex. Fortec, Palletline, United Pallet Network, Pal letrack and The Pallet Network. They represent 628 hauliers with a combined fleet of 12,000 vehicles and over 1.000.000m2 of warehousing. VOLVO HAS INCREASED its exports to almost every region in the world this year, but a sharp fall in the number of trucks being sold into the huge North American market brought the overall figure down by 8%.
Deliveries to Europe were up 16% to 18228 for January-April compared with the same period last year. The biggest increase was in Eastern Europe, with sales up 67% to 5.073 vehicles.
But deliveries to North America were down 54% to 5,308 from 11,647 in 2006. Volvo says this is fully attributable" to new US emissions standards Elsewhere the news was all good with rises in sales to South America (32%), the Middle East (16%) and Asia (10%). Overall Volvo's global deliveries were down from 33,007 to 30,423; in 2006 Volvo sold more than 105,000 trucks worldwide.