The Road Haulage Association has endorsed the IRTEC voluntary accreditation scheme that assesses the safety and competence of technicians working on commercial vehicles.

Experts at Thatcham Research - the motor insurers’ automotive research facility - believe that multiple vehicle accidents such as the pile-up on the Isle of Sheppey crossing last September could be mitigated or avoided altogether with the widespread use of new automatic braking technologies.

After 45 years in international removals, Bill Beuthin is taking a break. He has semi-retired to his home in Normandy in France.

Selwyn Blyth, employment law specialist at Pinsent Masons, comments on the latest trolling backlash and the growing importance of social media policies in the workplace

Road safety charity Brake, is launching a series of free and low-cost webinars, seminars, and an accompanying guidance report, aimed at helping small to medium size enterprises avoid costly and potentially devastating at-work road crashes.

The Freight Transport Association has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of his Autumn Statement on 5 December, asking him to confirm his commitment to freeze fuel duty until 2015 in order to stimulate economic growth and give businesses confidence to invest in the future.

Interdean, part of the Santa Fe Group, has teamed up with Reason Global to help deliver a container of aid from the UK to the Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan caused catastrophic damage, leaving thousands feared dead.

Since Rudolph Diesel invented his compression-ignition engine in 1897, it’s been through a technological transformation. But despite efficiency and power gains the original principle remains the same and the chemistry remains inescapable: we are still burning a fossil fuel to make a reciprocating engine work.

UniGroup Relocation Network’s global managing director Paul Bernardt took time out to update The Mover with some important changes and benefits that its new rebrand will bring to its members and clients.

Sherif Gabriel, 24, is the Marketing and Operations Executive at Intermove Egypt in Cairo. Established in 1991, the company is owned by his father, Wassim Gabriel, 52. Sherif spoke enthusiastically to us about his love for the industry, the company’s heritage, the removals trade in Egypt and Intermove Egypt’s plans for the future.

Lacey’s Removals on the Isle of Wight has been run by three generations of the same family since it was first established back in 1924. In recent years it’s been Craig Lacey holding the reins.

Expats living in Southern Spain wore their poppies with pride on this year’s Remembrance Day thanks in part to the generosity of Matthew James Removals.

Taiwanese container shipping companies have experienced mixed fortunes in recent years with varied profitability.

Chief Executive Mick Jackson is stepping down from Skills for Logistics as the organisation looks to implement a new strategic plan that creates a greater emphasis on deeper commercial activities over the next five years.

A new insurance scam targeting motorists is sweeping across Britain.

Volvo Trucks has released a film featuring a hamster - ‘Charlie’ - steering a Volvo FMX up the side of a Spanish quarry.

The Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM) has announced the EMMA awards for the Americas at its conference that was held in Las Vegas, Nevada last week.

BMB Removals from Northampton has recently chosen Linde Material Handling (UK) to source a used fork lift for low impact use.