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The Road Transport Blog
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The latest industry news and comment on haulage, logistics and road transport.
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Follow the MT Awards live
With the Motor Transport Awards now sold out, if you want to catch up with live updates from the event of the year for the road transport industry, then come back here on Tuesday 13 July. We'll be blogging live from the Grosvenor House Hotel and bringing you news of the awards as they happen....
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Emergency Budget - Live Blog
The Emergency Budget, taking place this week, is being painted by many commentators as a pivotal moment for the country. One way lies continued and lasting debt, the other lies a return to financial well-being. Unfortunately, as a result of this, the government will be slashing public spending which will have a knock-on effect on jobs. There's also the spectre...
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SMMT driving day
Motor Transport's editor, Steve Hobson, and Commercial Motor's Colin Barnett are at today's SMMT driving day at the Millbrook Proving Ground somewhere north of London. They are providing regular updates as they get behind the wheel (or is that wheels?) of a whole bunch of CVs and probably cars as well. Steve writes: "I've been boldly going where no van should...
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DSV's UK boss video exclusive
You cannot keep DSV out of the headlines at the moment. Fresh from a triumphant exhibition at the Multi-Modal Show - its unvieled provisional results for the first quarter of 2010 where profits at its UK road freight arm rose. Roadtransport.com caught up with DSV Road's UK boss, Rene Falch Olesen, just a few weeks before the Q1's were revealed...
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Royalty meets Stobart
Here is a picture of some royalty, and the Duke of York too! Only joking, but HRH Prince Andrew had the pleasure of meeting William Stobart this week as this picture shows (ed's note: Stobart is on the right). The meerting was arranged for Stobart to show its Mersey Multimodal Gateway in Widnes and it was only last month that Stobart signed up...
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Commercial Vehicle Operator Show Network
The way in which information is disseminated is evolving rapidly: social media, such as forums, Facebook and Twitter, are all the rage. We've kept pace with these developments, and now we launch the next stage as the Commercial Vehicle Operator Show draws closer. The show will create a "buzz" in the industry. The show has hundreds of exhibitors booked and...
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Tesco DC closures and all that
Talking to the press officer at the USDAW union last week regarding Tesco's plans to close its Middlewich DC, what quickly became apparent was that the union found itself in a strange position. Of course, in public anyway, USDAW was bound to get placard-shakingly angry about the closure - it's what trade unions are there for after all. However, we...
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Bulmers Transport - a year on
The fall-and-rise-again of Bulmers Logistics - reborn as Bulmers Transport - last year is pretty well documented. However, Johnathan Bulmer has stayed resolutely silent about how the new operation is performing, feeling, probably rightly, that speaking about it was only likely to inflame passions again. That said, a quick chat at the Asda carrier awards last night (where the company was handed the Container...
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