Scania has opened a new service centre in Bridgewater, Somerset. The facility was opened on 5 December 2018 by His Excellency Mr Torbjörn Sohlström, Sweden's Ambassador to the UK.

The German Bundestag has amended federal highway toll law to exempt trucks powered by natural gas from tolls from 1 January, 2019 for a period of two years. The change is intended help to reduce the country’s growing CO2 emissions from the transport sector and provide a stimulus for the natural gas vehicle sector.

Volvo has recently launched a range of improvements to its trucks including the map-based I-See software that uses map data to preview the topography of the route, and takes care of gear selection, acceleration and engine braking.

CVC Capital Partners Fund VII (“CVC”) recently signed an agreement to acquire a 20% stake in DKV MOBILITY SERVICES Group (“DKV”).

A recently released report, European Road Freight Transport 2018, claims that Europe has a shortage of HGV drivers of around 150,000. The UK is the worst affected with 52,000 vacancies and Germany has 45,000 vacancies.

Bishop’s Move has recently added a Peugeot Boxer Euro 6 vehicle to it fleet at its Gibraltar branch.

Santa Fe Group A/S has announced that it has sold its Australian business and is in the process of selling its immigration businesses. At the time of writing the sale of the Australian business was due to close at the end of December 2018, whereas the sale of the immigration business will close during Q1 2019.

Online freight forwarder iContainers says a year of uncertainty awaits the shipping industry, with many issues surrounding the US-China trade war, Brexit, and IMO 2020 far from being resolved.

Arpin Van Lines’ President and CEO David Arpin received the James Prout Spirit of Giving Award from charity Wreaths Across America during the 34th Annual Arpin Agent Convention held in Newport, Rhode Island.

Mondial Movers has announced that it has become the ‘preferred launching customer’ in Europe for the SAIC Maxus EV80 chassis cab.

The 2019 International Mobility Alliance (IMA) conference will take place from February 19-22, 2019 in the Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queens Park Hotel.

This year, Norfolk-based bodybuilder Vancraft celebrates its 40th birthday. Deputy Editor David Jordan visited the factory in Norfolk to meet its founder Derek Avis and his co-director, son Nick.

Whilst pro-Brexit groups foresee a bright future for the UK as a global trading nation, chief executives and directors at ports and harbour authorities around the UK reveal that, with ten weeks to go, little or no planning has been done.

London-based class action law firm Edwin Coe LLP has filed a group action seeking damages for direct and indirect purchasers of trucks who were victims of fraudulent price fixing by major truck manufacturers over a 14-year period.

SilverDoor Apartments, has launched a new powerful online booking platform aimed specifically at the global mobility industry.

Pickfords Business Solutions and VINCI Facilities, a construction and facilities management expert, were awarded ‘Best Partnership in Relocation’ at the PFM Awards 2018 held at The Brewery, London on 7 November.

Brits are dreaming of a new life in the Spanish sun, according to new research by AnyVan.com.

For the past twenty years HomeMaker, run by entrepreneur Katie Shapley, has been bringing order and calm to the often chaotic task of turning a newly moved-into house into a home.

On Monday, 27 November 2018, Richard Mason from Mason’s Moving in Wales took part in a delivery that was somewhat unusual, even for an experienced mover.

It seems it will be up to employers to establish whether or not emigrants from Europe are entitled to work in the UK after Britain leaves the European Union in March, even though there appears to be no easy way of checking their status.