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Challenge TRG Group – the logistics recruitment and distribution company – has acquired training specialist, Phoenix Training Services, as it looks to tackle the HGV driver skills shortage in the UK. The company, which recently rebranded from Challenge Group following the acquisition of TRG Logistics earlier this month, completed the …

Mobile Mini, a leading hirer of portable site accommodation and secure storage containers, has reported record results for its UK business. Mobile Mini’s turnover reached £66.6 million during the 12 months to December 2017, an 11.3 per cent increase on the previous year. This record revenue has been driven in …

Mobile Mini, a leading hirer of secure storage containers and portable site accommodation, has announced the opening of its flagship London branch. The new branch, the Company’s largest yet, has been created following the merger of its existing Gravesend branch with its former branch in South Ockendon, Essex. An investment …

Mobile Mini a leading hirer of secure storage containers and portable site accommodation has successfully achieved a gold level transport award for the fifth consecutive year. Following an assessment at its London branch, Mobile Mini was awarded the accreditation for its growing fleet of HGV delivery vehicles, in the Fleet …

Driver CPC Periodic Training is frequently overlooked as a tool for progressing the careers of professional LGV drivers, says RTITB, the largest Driver CPC Consortium in the UK and Ireland. “Many businesses are missing the opportunities of Driver CPC Periodic Training,” says Laura Nelson, Managing Director of RTITB. “It doesn’t …

Trials of ‘driverless’ commercial vehicles planned for Britain’s roads in 2018 have received a cautious welcome by one of the transport and logistics sector’s leading training providers. System Group, which trains and supplies qualified drivers for national and international transport and haulage operators, says the sector needs to embrace the …

The freight and logistics sector is still suffering a shortage of skilled drivers, according to the Freight Transport Association FTA July Quarterly Transport Activity Survey (QTAS), sponsored by Santander Corporate Banking. The survey, which asked the opinions of 6,000 freight and logistics businesses in the FTA’s membership, showed that almost …

Mobile Mini, a leading hirer of portable site accommodation and secure storage containers, has announced that its UK business grew its half year revenue by almost 14% to £33m, for the first six months of 2017. Revenue has been bolstered by a further multi-million pound investment, leading to the addition …

Mobile Mini, a leading hirer of portable site accommodation and secure storage containers, with its global operations based in Arizona, USA and UK headquarters at Stockton-on-Tees, has achieved a zero Reportable Accident Frequency Rate (RAFR) for a rolling 12 months. From July 2016 to June 2017, the Company which has …

A group of road transport operators together with public sector partners The Solent Logistics Consortium have hailed a pilot scheme designed to encourage unemployed and unqualified individuals to train and pursue a commercial driving career an overwhelming success. The Solent Logistics Consortium (SLC), which was formed in April 2015 is …