Randox Testing Services has become the latest FORS associate, offering its bespoke drug and alcohol testing services to the extensive FORS membership base at discounted rates. Based in Crumlin, just outside Manchester, Randox Testing Services is a fast-growing drug and alcohol testing provider and a market leader in the diagnostics industry with over 35 years’
A new £3 million contract to supply 32 double-deck refrigerated trailers to leading UK temperature-controlled food distribution specialists Reed Boardall will be supplied by Grey & Adams. A dozen 13.6 metre tri-axle double-deck Gray & Adams reefers have already joined the 300-strong trailer fleet, with an additional order of 20 due later this year. The
Today the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) wrote to their new British Prime Minister, congratulating him on his appointment and setting out the UK automotive industry’s immediate and future priorities at a time of dramatic transformation for the sector.
RHA chief executive, Richard Burnett asks the new UK Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps MP, to work closely with the UK haulage industry making every effort to ensure that businesses are Brexit-ready. He said that firms are still in the dark over the new processes they’ll be expected to work with amid concerns that red tape
FORS Business Services Manager, Paul Wilkes explores how the Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme helps its diverse membership base of trucks, vans, cars, passenger carrying vehicles and powered two-wheelers achieve environmental best practice. Data is king Recording data is key for operators to baseline performance and identify where efficiency improvements can be made across a fleet.
Fairport Containers, part of the Fairport Engineering Group, has taken on its first ever DAF. The XF 450 FAR – a 26-tonne GVW, tag-axle, 6×2 rigid, is plated for 44-tonne GCW and bodied for hook-loader operations. It is being operated out of Fairport Containers’ site at Bridgewater following a successful Operator’s’ Licence application. Talking about
UK logistics fleet operator, CM Downton, is midway through a programmed delivery of 100 new tri-axle curtainsider trailers from Tiger Trailers. The deliveries bring Downton’s Tiger fleet to 425 having been the Cheshire-based manufacturer’s first customer in 2014 and now receiving the very first trailers to leave Tiger’s new purpose-built production factory in Winsford. The
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The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is helping operators gain and maintain FORS Bronze accreditation with the launch of a new live Going for Bronze webinar. The FORS Going for Bronze live webinar will allow delegates to participate from anywhere in the UK and has been introduced to make life easier for new members preparing for
Cavan-based haulier Virginia International Logistics has become the first Irish company to invest in a futureproof fleet of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) trucks.
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