Pension Payout Hits Profits

A.L56M CONTRIBUTION to its pension fund wiped out any pretax profit at the retail and grocery haulage specialist Gist in 2006. The Basingstoke-based firm, whose former parent......

Cash To Train Women: Use It Or Lose It

THE ROAD TRANSPORT industry has been warned to use government cash to train women drivers and warehouse workers or risk losing the money. Speaking at the Skills for Logistics......

Short Queue For Booming Stralis

SALES OF THE Iveco Stralis are booming, with a 25% growth in the L.:K since the start of the year. Second-half UK sales are set to match the annual total for 2006. More than......

Boalloy Crisis

Congleton-based bodywork manufacturer Boalloy has gone into administraten.......

Opening Hours

On 13 September CM ran an article on a workshop survey called Time is Money. In it we stated Mercedes-Benz dealer Ciceley Commercial is open for 54 hours a week; in fact it is......

Lost Nerve

The Liberal Democrats have accused the government of losing its nerve on road pricing after I shelved national road pricing plans. "Local road pricing schemes will end up......

Tipcon Returns

TipCon will return to the Birmingham NEC in 2008 as part of the CV Show. It will have an 8,000m 2 hall plus a 5,000m 2 demonstration and display area.......

Green Review

The Association of European Vehicle Logistics has commissioned Friends of the Earth to look at the external costs of logistics vehicles, in an effort to create a standard......

Expert Advice

University of Glasgow transport expert lain Docherty has been appointed an adviser to the Scottish Government's Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Commtee,......