Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK: Tesco is offering a £1,000 signing-on fee for lorry drivers who join the company before the end of September as the driver shortage crisis intensifies. According to press reports, the bonus is being offered on a job advert posted on Tesco’s site, with the supermarket telling potential candidates: “You’ll play …
London, UK: Smaller food delivery firms say they still do not know whether they qualify for the new Covid test scheme to prevent their workers having to self-isolate. Daily testing for certain critical sectors in England was launched on Monday after several sectors warned of staffing shortages caused by 10-day isolations. But several smaller food …
Basingstoke, UK: Agata Makowska, a Gist driver, has been nominated as the top Young Driver for 2021. With just a year and 10 months of driving experience (and three years working for Gist), Makowska drives in the south of England making up to ten drops a day, delivering milk, fresh and ambient products to Starbucks …
Troy, Michigan, USA: Electric Last Mile, (ELMS) and Thermo King, are collaborating to build a first-of-its-kind all-electric refrigerated delivery vehicle. Thermo King will integrate its E-200 all-electric fridge into ELMS’ urban delivery electric vehicle. This vehicle will be a prototype of the anticipated first Class 1 commercial electric vehicle available in the United States. “Together …
London, UK: Simon Hanley, picured above, has taken a new role as sales manager at Perishable Movements Limited. The company created the position following expansion and acquisition of a new site in Lympne, Kent. Hanley, who joined PML five years ago, has been promoted from his previous role as business development manager. He will manage …
Newmarket, UK: Turners (Soham) has ordered 71 new single compartment reefer trailers with Advancer A400 systems. Turners anticipates significant fuel savings from running the latest trailers with the new Thermo King Advancer system. Marshall Fleet Solutions will supply and maintain the fridges. Initially, 31 Gray & Adams single compartment trailers with TK Advancer units will …
Redditch, UK: Lexon UK, a pharmaceutical wholesaler, has replaced its 130 van fleet. Coolfreeze won the contract to convert a mix of Ford Transit, Iveco Daily and Fiat Ducato vans over two years. All were fitted with Hubbard’s SFZ008 and SFZ009 invisible fridge, the latter a multi-temperature fridge with dual evaporators to cool separate zones …
Cwmbran, Wales: Euro Foods has taken delivery of 14 new Iveco light trucks; eleven 7.2 tonne Daily chassis cabs and three 12 tonne Eurocargos. The Eurocargos have Gray & Adams bodies with Carrier Supra fridges and willoperate from Euro Food’s five depots. Bodywork for the Dailys is by Solomon. Three of the new Dailys have …
Austin, Texas, USA: Venture capital firm 8VC and Lineage Logistics have formalised their alliance to invest in transport and logistics businesses. The companies have long collaborated investing in start-up organisations such as Project44, Trackonomy, and Baton. “The strategic alliance builds on their existing partnership by aligning to a vision to accelerate the pace of innovation …
London, UK: Nominations for the Global Cold Chain Alliance Europe Future Leaders Award close at the end of the month. GCCA’s Europe Future Leader Award recognises outstanding young professionals in the European cold storage industry who show potential for future career advancement but have not yet risen to top-level leadership positions within their company. The 2021 …
London, UK: The logistics industry remain unimpressed by government efforts to deal with the self-isolation “pingdemic” describing the measures as “chaotic” and “too late”. The number of people being sent NHS app alerts to self-isolate rapidly rose throughout July as infection rates soared, reaching a record 600,000 in the week to 14 July. The government …
Prague, Czech Republic: Cargo-partner has acquired Czech company Gibon Logistics to boost its coldchain services in the Czech Republic. Milan Lani, director product management contract logistics, Cargo-partner, said: “Gibon Logistics offers unique fulfilment solutions for refrigerated food shipments. “This will allow us to provide our customers with tailor-made services for any shipment size, from single …
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