Logistics

News from Hitachi Capital: Hitachi Capital Commercial Vehicle Solutions has extended its partnership with vehicle breakdown and recovery specialists RAC for a further five years. Following the successful implementation of 773 new mission critical vehicles in 2013 and the ongoing…

Small and medium-sized businesses hit by flooding could benefit from financial support in a new £10 million package announced by government today. Although there is no cap on maximum payments under the Business Support Scheme hardship funding, government suggests that…

News from Prohire: Midlands based Prohire Plc, one of the UK’s fastest growing commercial vehicle hire and fleet management specialists, has announced a major investment in its spot rental fleet. The company has recently placed orders worth in excess of…

Roads Minister Robert Goodwill has visited the 15ft-deep sinkhole on the M2 and pledged to get remedial works done to UK road as quickly as possible. The hole is just one of the results of the string of severe weather…

Longer truck combinations bring a promise of significant improvements in efficiency for the logistics sector, but can the UK’s infrastructure cope? Professor David Cebon certainly thinks so, and reckons technology needed to make it possible could be put to wider…

News from MAN: MAN has delivered nine TGS 8×4 chassis for heavy recovery vehicles which have been put into service in the Russian city of Sochi. With the expansion in infrastructure in the region on the Black Sea coast, the…