www.truckandtrack.com Winter 2023 Truck and Track 3 HARD WORK, SUCCESS AND RECOGNITION by Barbara Ryan, Publishing Director, Truck and Track We’ve now reached that time of the year when companies recognise their staff for all the loyalty and effort that have ensured continuing success for the business. In this issue, we report on the CILT Awards for Excellence, the Logistics Awards and the UPN Awards 2023. These annual events are aimed at recognising not only individual employees but also companies that have worked hard to achieve distinction within their respective fields. It was encouraging to note that Logistics UK presented a total of 17 awards across a broad range of disciplines and technologies. Alongside the awards events, we also take a detailed look at the unremitting rise of alternatives to fossil fuels. We have reported on the success of companies including VEV, Tevva, SSAB and the VBG Group. As a step towards eliminating traditional fossil fuels, Merridale explains that many local councils and governments are increasingly considering and adopting the use of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as an alternative to traditional diesel fuel. Continuing this theme, by highlighting sustainability as a core strategic priority, UPN’s aims are now under the leadership of Group Sustainability Chief, Joanna Davila. Also, to achieve future sustainability goals, Joanna has implemented a metrics-based “Environmental Management System”. This Winter issue also includes details of TruTac’s leadership in tachograph analysis, compliance control and digitised fleet management. On a similar vein, Descartes looks at the difference between ‘plan’ and ‘actual’ fleet delivery performance plus news of its recent Innovation Forum for Routing, Mobile and Telematics. As usual, we have latest news from the Association of Pallet Networks plus workshop equipment specialists Totalkare and Stertil-Koni. We have also included contributions from our Dangerous Goods columnist, Ali Karim and Labeline’s Compliance Manager, Richard Shreeve who reports on his day spent at a police commercial vehicle checkpoint on the M6. Once again, I hope you enjoy reading this issue. Barbara Ryan CONTENTS Page 4 BUSINESS NEWS 17 TACHOGRAPH ANALYSIS 21 CILT(UK) 22 LOGISTICS UK NEWS 24 INTERMODAL TRANSPORT SOFTWARE 28 DESCARTES 33 FUEL MANAGEMENT 38 WINTER DRIVING ADVICE 39 PALLET NETWORKS 50 TRAILERS 56 WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT 61 DANGEROUS GOODS 71 SAFETY & SECURITY 74 RAILFREIGHT 77 PORTS Truck and Track The Haulage & Logistics Buyers Magazine Truck and Track The Haulage & Logistics Buyers Magazine To advertise, contact Barbara Ryan, Publishing Director, Truck & Track Multi Media Limited, via email barbara.ryan@truckandtrack.com Editor: Peter Ager editor@truckandtrack.com 07774 169981 Designed and published by Truck & Track Multi Media Limited Creative Director: Marc Pittaway DISCLAIMER Every care has been taken during the production of this magazine with compiling advertisements, editorial and advertorial. However, Truck & Track Multi Media Limited cannot accept responsibility for material supplied by third parties and excludes all liability either relating to any products and services promoted in this publication or arising from any error, omission or inaccuracy. Nor is Truck & Track Multi Media Limited responsible for the content of external websites. Finally, the views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily the views of its Publishers. Copyright © Truck & Track Multi Media Limited. All rights reserved. TRUCK & TRAILER SOLUTIONS WELCOME TOALLPORTS GROUP allportsgroup.co.uk
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTE1MTA=