In a press release issued on 1 June, Transport for London (TfL) claims that its Direct Vision Standard (DVS), introduced in March this year, is “already helping to save lives” and warns of a further tightening of regulations in 2024.

The American Trucking Association’s Moving & Storage Conference is holding a national event from 15-17 November, 2021 in Hilton Downtown, Austin, Texas.

Global mobility specialist BGRS and technology company UNLSH Mobility, have announced a partnership to bring its all-new sustainability program, ecolegIT for the global mobility industry, to BGRS clients.

A new report from the STEP Project Global Consortium and KPMG Private Enterprise has demonstrated how the unique structure of family businesses has empowered them to respond to the impact of COVID-19.

Steve Jordan looks at the benefits of experience and the impetuousness of youth and considers what it is the moving industry needs now.

In this Q&A article, Brielle Jones, Manager Marketing and Sales for TriGlobal, gives her opinion about some of the challenges faced by moving companies worldwide as the world changes, and what they might do to meet them.

In this Q&A-style interview, Rennie Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer at Self Storage Association UK and FEDESSA, talks to Mike Wilson, CEO of SureStore, about institutional investors, expansion, 5th-generation stores, finding good sites and post-COVID challenges.

Kristin White, Senior Manager, Content and Campaign Strategy for Sterling Lexicon, looks at how the increased flexibility available from remote working raises opportunities and challenges.

Lynn Shotwell is the president and CEO of Worldwide ERC (Employee Relocation Council). She’s been in her new role since March 2020, an interesting time for anyone to have a change of job. Steve Jordan spoke to her about the new world of relocation, how it has changed and how will it continue to operate in the future.

Steve Jordan interviews Casey Phelps of Graebel following the company’s release of an extraordinary survey report showing that COVID has made people want to move with work more than in the past, not less.

Highland cattle seem to revel in having long hair - I’m afraid I don’t! As far as us Homo sapiens are concerned it’s very much a male/female thing I suppose.

Peter Ward, CEO of UK Warehousing Association (UKWA), has announced his intention to step down after six years at the helm of the sector’s leading trade organisation. His successor will be named shortly.

Ever mindful of safety, Volvo Trucks has developed an acoustic alert system with unique sound effects for its electric trucks so that pedestrians, cyclists and other road users can hear them coming.

Almost one in ten logistics businesses in the UK say the recruitment of drivers is an ‘extreme barrier’ to the recovery of their business, according to The Logistics Report 2021 released on 21 May by business group Logistics UK.

Fuel card provider DKV Mobility has announced that its customers are now able to use Nordic energy company Gasum’s network of gas filling stations across Finland and Sweden.

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has published long-awaited guidance to improve safety around the use of tail lifts.

Tachograph analysis and compliance specialist TruTac has launched an all-new software feature - Driver Compliance Risk Score (DCRS) - to simplify how fleet operators monitor and manage the potential risk drivers can pose to compliance levels.

The government will be testing its new Emergency Alerts in East Suffolk on 25 May between 1pm and 2pm.

The DVSA has announced that from 1 June, 2021 any prohibitions for testable vehicles or trailers that are not cleared at the roadside will be referred for a prohibition removal inspection at an Authorised Testing Facility (ATF).

A P Moller – Maersk has reached an agreement with BGRf, the third largest rail freight operator in the United Kingdom, to operate a rail service from Felixstowe to Newell & Wright in Tinsley, Sheffield all working days in the week.