Tag: Road Transport

Berser International expands its business

Posted by | Oct 17, 2007 | |

Stoke-on-Trent based logistics firm, Berser International Cargo Services Ltd, has expanded its business to cover the south Cheshire area to meet the requirement for overnight palletised freight distribution throughout the UK and Europe.
Berser International is part of the Berser Group founded in 1979 in the Netherlands. The Berser Group operates a fleet of over 35 vehicles. The recent expansion has meant investment in two new specially equipped vehicles with increased freight carrying capacity and the employment of extra personnel, together with an increase in handling equipment resources.
Berser International operates its overnight palletised freight distribution service through Palletways, the number one palletised freight network in the UK.
The company is one of more than 100 regional depots that make up the nationwide network, which provides a range of express distribution services for small consignments of palletised freight, including next day, economy and timed delivery options.
By accessing the Palletways website and entering their unique login name, Berser International’s customers are able to go online and check the status and location of their consignment with track and trace.

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Local Distribution Company Joins Logistics Network and Predicts Major Growth

Posted by | Oct 17, 2007 | |

Goods 2 Go, based in Lewisham South-East London, has joined Palletways, the number one palletised freight network in Europe.
The company has become one of more than 100 depots that make up the UK network, which provides a range of express distribution services for small consignments of palletised freight, including next day, economy and timed delivery options. Goods 2 Go will cover deliveries to EC and WC postcodes in central London.
Goods 2 Go, which was founded in 2001 and has a 15-strong vehicle fleet, predicts that its membership of Palletways will increase its annual turnover by 30 per cent.
Ash Douglas, Managing Director of Goods 2 Go said: “Joining Palletways will enable us to fully exploit the palletised freight marketplace in the UK and Europe. Being part of the largest network of its kind will enable us to offer our customers cost-effective overnight and express freight services to anywhere in the country for the first time ever, as well as being able to offer services to mainland Europe, a service which we intend to grow over the next few years.”
As with all companies in the Palletways network, Goods 2 Go will benefit from high-speed connections to the internet, and the track and trace consignment monitoring.
By accessing the Palletways website and entering their unique login name, Goods 2 Go customers are able to go online and check the status and location of their consignments with track and trace.

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New appointment looks to the future

Posted by | Oct 15, 2007 | |

PalletFORCE has appointed Alan Cooke to the new position of Network Solutions Director.

Alan will have responsibility for looking at how PalletFORCE’s current models can be improved, and also will be charged with developing innovative new ways of working as the Network looks to diversify in the future. Alan brings seventeen years of experience in the logistics industry, having worked with both logistics companies and end users. He joins PalletFORCE from T-Mobile, where as International Logistics Manager he looked after the distribution and warehousing needs of twelve European countries. Previous employers include Christian Salvesen, Exel Logistics, Kuehne and Nagel, and Tesco.

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Road tech's tachomaster system helps Ceva logistics

Posted by | Oct 5, 2007 | |

CEVA Logistics has been using Road Tech’s revolutionary Tachomaster system since the introduction of the new digital tachographs and the changes in legislation introduced in May 2006. CEVA first introduced Tachomaster in order to ensure compliance with new EU and WTD (Working Time Directive) legislation, but the system’s ability to provide instantly available data and high level management reports has also allowed the company to introduce significant operational efficiencies.

Tachomaster records and analyses tachograph data from digital and analogue sources and gives transport operators a simple, highly effective tool to help them run their business efficiently. The system provides a range of real-time, high resolution management information and reports together with highly secure data storage and safe back-up. Transport companies can use the system simply to compute the driving and rest times of their drivers to ensure legal compliance, or they can employ it as a powerful monitoring and resource planning tool to give complete transparency of operations over a number of sites and help to optimise vehicle usage and driver deployment.

With over 120 sites throughout the UK, over 2000 vehicles and over 3800 drivers, CEVA was looking for a solution that would handle both the new digital tachographs and also the legacy analogue recording system which would take some time to phase out. “What we wanted was a best of breed solution which would merge analogue and digital tachograph data management into one coherent, secure solution,” says Andy Jenkins, CEVA Logistics’ Manager Operations Training. “We looked at a number of systems before making a decision, but Tachomaster was by far the most user-friendly.”

The real time web-based approach used by Tachomaster means that information captured at driver debrief is made available instantly for digital tachos and within hours for analogue data. Tachomaster has developed a digitisation system for analogue charts which removes human error and improves the turnaround from weeks to hours. By integrating accurate mileage information with fuel drawings, drivers’ performance can be managed to maximise fuel efficiency.

Road Tech and CEVA worked together before the legal introduction of the new digitachs and CEVA was able to provide Road Tech with some of the early live data to test pre-implementation phases of the system.

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Business Post – Pre-Close Period Trading Update

Posted by | Oct 4, 2007 | |

Business Post Group plc today issues the following pre-close period trading update for the six months ended 30 September 2007.

Group revenues for the first half of the financial year increased by 9% on the equivalent period last year. As previously announced, the Parcels contract with Federal Express terminated on 30 April 2007. Excluding the revenues from this contract, the underlying revenue increase was 15%.

Excluding revenues from FedEx, parcel revenues are in line with last year. Good growth in the B2B market has been offset by a decline in B2C. As we have previously indicated, the B2C parcels market is becoming increasingly competitive, which is impacting Parcels margin growth in the current year.

Our mail business, UK Mail, continues to achieve strong growth with revenues in the period up by some 60% on last year. We continue to win a significant number of substantial contracts.

Revenues in Specialist Services are broadly in line with last year.

Interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2007 will be announced on 14 November 2007.

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