A leading transport business in Manchester is expanding its services into Europe in partnership with other top UK hauliers. AK Worthington, the transport division of AKW Group, based at Trafford Park, is now offering delivery services to France, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Italy through the Partnerlink haulage consortium. “The new European delivery platform enables AKW Group […]
The head of Skills for Logistics (SfL) has said a new scheme aimed at recruiting ex-services personnel into the road transport industry is “absolutely not” just for large operators in the sector. Speaking earlier this month at the official launch of SfL’s Military Transitions to Logistics programme at London’s Imperial War Museum, the sector skills council’s chief executive Mick […]
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To be successful, logistics businesses need people of all kinds. Black and white, young and old, both men and women. Women in Logistics UK is a group set up in 2008 and made up of over 3,000 women and men. Their aim is to support the careers of women working in logistics. Women in […]
2011: DPD seeks 50 HGV drivers as part of expansion bid PARCEL CARRIER DPD wants to recruit more than 50 HGV drivers ahead of the oficial opening of a £12m extension to its national sorting hub in Oldbury, West Midlands, later this month (22 September). The investment means the 132C specialist, part of Geopost UK […]
The transport industry is still a male-dominated sector, despite of the shortage of drivers and calls for increased equality. However, in different parts of the world, there are crusaders who are working to bring about change and Ellen Voie is one of them. Her organisation, Women in Trucking, with the support of Volvo Trucks, has […]
A logistics personnel recruitment company based in West Yorkshire is targeting turnover of £65m in 2012 having maintained double-digit growth for the past four years. The company has recently moved its head office to Brighouse. Transline Resource Group, which specialises in recruiting HGV drivers and industrial workers, has experienced turnover growth from £25m three years […]
Skills for Logistics (SfL) has been awarded £1.14 million, under the third phase of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills’ Employer Investment Fund (EIF3), to deliver a programme for a transition from military to civilian logistics for up to 1000 people leaving the armed forces. Through its EIF3 funded Military Transitions to Logistics programme, […]
Matthew Marriott, commercial director of Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK, looks at the current issues facing the logistics industry in terms of recruitment, skills, and investing in talent, and what methods can be employed to effectively attract and retain new recruits. When asked what they want to do when they are older, children normally say things […]
A CREWE HGV driver agency boss says he is bucking the trend of rising unemployment by appealing for extra staff. Driver Hire, which is owned by Martin Kenyon, supplies temporary drivers to the road transport and logistics industry. Business is booming and Martin could do with a few more hands behind the wheel. “I’m really […]