UniGroup – parent company of United Van Lines, Mayflower Transit and other leading global relocation and transportation companies – has acquired UK-based Sterling Relocation. The sale closed June 30.

All businesses need to market themselves, and even though new and innovative alternative marketing methods have emerged in recent years, press advertising remains an effective means of getting information about products and services in front of the right people. By Simon Taylor, freelance Graphic Designer.

Henneken International Removals is one of the oldest removal companies in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1870 and remained a family business until 2001 when the company was sold and changed its direction. Steve Jordan interviewed its Director, Lauwrens de Jong, to find out more.

If you have ever met Fred Delahaye you will remember. He’s not the kind of chap who fades into the background. He’s smart, cool, steeped in the moving industry, and a free spirit. Steve Jordan joined him for a little shared inspiration.

Steve Jordan looks at his time in the moving industry and reflects on what was - and what might have been.

The DVSA’s latest figures suggest that most lorry drivers will have completed their 35 hours’ periodic training by the 10 September deadline.

The government has launched a 6 week consultation on plans to increase the speed limits for HGVs on dual carriageways from 50 mph to 60 mph.

Isis Relocation recently joined the Alliance of Independent Movers (AIM), the UK’s newest trade association.

“We do not see why it should be a function of government to try and micro-manage this interaction between the parties through the prescribing of template forms and time limits.”: government response to the consultation on abolition of discrimination questionnaires.

International relocation specialist, Robinsons, has announced the appointment of Emma Trafford as Head of Client Services.

Without a radical programme of house building average house prices in England could double in just ten years to £446,000, according to new research released in May.

A new, free app, TRANSPark, has been created to help commercial drivers and fleet managers find comfortable parking areas in over 40 countries worldwide.

The European Commission has given Sadler Consultants Ltd. four years' funding to run a website providing a single source of information on all urban access regulation schemes for vehicles across Europe.

O’Neil Software Inc., supplier of records management software, has signed an agreement with Tronitech, which will provide for integration of the O’Neil RS-SQL® records management solution with the Tronitech Vaultview imaging application.

In May, Move It Removals from Southend on Sea in Essex won first place in two separate categories: Best Customer Service in Essex and Small Business of the Year 2014 in Essex.

Skills for Logistics is creating an endorsement for Driver CPC training providers to be operational this summer. It is calling on training providers and employers to get in touch to help develop the system, which will ‘sharpen-up’ Driver CPC and make it more relevant to employers.

At the end of May PPS Crate Hire made the big step of moving premises from its location in Measham, Leicestershire where it has been based for 7 years to a larger newly refurbished site in Marchington, Uttoxeter.