Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that the UK’s leading kitchen retailer, Wren Kitchens, is using Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling, route planning and optimisation solution to improve surveyor productivity allowing them to complete 56% more customer appointments and significantly reduce its overall ‘cost per appointment’, which has saved the company £2million annually.

Continuing the theme of this column in the last two editions of Truck and Track, Richard Shreeve, Labeline’s Compliance Manager, discusses the enforcement of the Dangerous Goods Regulations with Nicola Jaynes, Principal Inspector at the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)

As the road transport sector undergoes rapid change with decarbonisation, automation, new safety standards and training the workforce to deliver such change, at the heart of it is the Commercial Vehicle (CV) Show – the UK’s most comprehensive road freight transport event in the UK.

The transportation of goods around the UK has come under increasing pressure from criminal attack. From box vans through to heavy goods vehicles, the need to protect the load space and the overnight driver is becoming an occupational hazard to many logistics’ companies.

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK – CILT(UK) – is looking to spotlight 35 exceptional logistics and transport young professionals under the age of 35.

Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, unveiled numerous innovations to customers at its 2023 Innovation Forum for Routing, Mobile & Telematics, which expand the capabilities of its routing, mobile and telematics solution suite for fleet operators. New solutions and integrations, in addition to enhancements to existing systems, allow companies to improve the operational performance of their fleets, driver safety and customer engagement.