The Freight Transport Association has launched a new Internet-based app which enables drivers to carry out their vehicle walk-around checks with the aid of an electronic device.

After securing the licence from the Supplier Recognition Scheme delivered by the British Olympic Association, Quartix can announce its role as the supplier for vehicle tracking systems for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

According to Sanderson’s Removals of Boston Spa, activity in Yorkshire’s Golden Triangle housing market is once again on an upward trajectory.

The Pensions Regulator has confirmed that the millionth worker has been enrolled into a workplace pension as a result of the government’s automatic enrolment scheme.

Carl Häggström, has resigned as a director of the moving division of Viktor Ek in Helsinki.

A new agency with responsibility for maintaining driver and vehicle standards has been launched today (Thursday 28 November, 2013).

The Mover has written to London Mayor Boris Johnson pointing out the difficulties the moving industry would face if a ban on HGVs in central London during peak times was introduced.

In response to some recent reports of removal companies getting into legal difficulties, BAR, in partnership with Backhouse Jones, has extended its free legal helpline services. These additional services come into effect immediately.

The Vehicle tracking company, Quartix, has been named Powys Business of the Year. The business, which has grown its workforce from 3 to 60 in twelve years, received the overall accolade, sponsored by Powys County Council, at the 2013 Powys Business Awards ceremony attended by 250 guests in Newtown on Friday, 27 September.

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.