Blog - Haulage Exchange

The Telegraph - LDC's Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders

By Jess - 10 Oct, 2019

We're are excited to announce our CEO Lyall Cresswell has been announced as one of UK's Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders.

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Top tips for creating your Brexit action plan for freight forwarders

By Billy Gardner - 12 Sep, 2019

With Brexit looming is your freight forwarding company ready?

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Top tips for creating your Brexit action plan for 3PL and 4PL companies

By Adam Awan - 12 Sep, 2019

With Brexit potentially happening on October 31 how ready is your 3PL or 4PL company?

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Time Saving Tips for Freight Forwarders

By Alastair Graham - 10 Sep, 2019

Freight forwarders have an essential role to play in the shipping process. Responsible for transporting cargo from company to consumer, it’s down to you to ensure a seamless transition and satisfied customers on both ends.

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Your step-by-step guide to starting a haulage company

By Billy Gardner - 10 Sep, 2019

Discover our top tips for building the foundations of a successful haulage company.

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Top tips to find haulage subcontractors

By Billy Gardner - 9 Sep, 2019

Here are five of our top tips to freight forwarders find the haulage contractors you need to get your cargo from A to B.

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Top tips to finding return loads for HGVs

By Adam Awan - 9 Sep, 2019

How do you find those return loads when you get where your delivery is due? Here are some tips to ensure you’re rarely left with no cargo, whatever your current requirements are.

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Programme to Help Drivers Improve Sleep

By Alastair Graham - 4 Sep, 2019

Eat, drive, sleep, repeat. Eat, drive, sleep, repeat. Sound familiar? Well if you’re one of the UK’s hard working haulage drivers out there on the road plying your trade every day, that’s literally the story of your life. The problem is, it’s all too easy to get into the habit of missing one of those steps and the consequences can be serious.

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North Yorkshire Police Launch Operation to Target Cargo Thieves

By Billy Gardner - 28 May, 2019

Cargo theft is one of the most serious problems faced by haulage companies in the UK, and it’s a sad reflection of the times that we have to spend so much time putting in measures to counteract it. Police in North Yorkshire have recently launched an initiative to increase their patrols in order to help curb the incidents of this kind of crime.

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Mandatory Trailer Registration Comes Into Effect

By Adam Awan - 25 Apr, 2019

If your haulage work takes you (or any driver in your fleet) into Europe, Brexit or no Brexit there’s a new ruling you need to be aware of that came into effect at the end of March. The trailer registration scheme means that if you’re taking a trailer abroad, you’re now required to register it through the DVLA.

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Clean Air at a Cost: Birmingham's CAZ 2020

By Alastair Graham - 29 Jan, 2019

If you work in or around the Birmingham area and you went away for Christmas, you might have missed a vital piece of news. In December 2018, the Birmingham council approved a charge of £50 a day for non-Euro 6 vehicles to enter the city's Clean Air Zone (CAZ).

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Platooning Makes a Step Closer to Becoming Reality

By Billy Gardner - 18 Dec, 2018

A government-funded trial will begin in spring 2019 to test, for the first time, a three-truck platoon in live traffic, fulfilling real delivery contracts using real delivery routes.

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Training Alert: FORS Issues New Mandatory Qualifications

By Adam Awan - 7 Dec, 2018

FORS has recently announced additional mandatory training requirements for drivers and managers. What do they hope to achieve and, more importantly, what does this mean for haulage companies?

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Celebrating Logistics with National Lorry Week

By Alastair Graham - 28 Oct, 2018

It’s that time of year again – the RHA’s National Lorry Week. It brings with it a whole week to celebrate all things lorry and we’re not going to lie - we love it!

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The Next Frontier: Customer Trials of the Fully Electric MAN Begin

By Billy Gardner - 12 Oct, 2018

Customers, including huge companies such as Aldi, will be testing the trucks over the coming months - using them to fulfil their regular delivery contracts and seeing whether the new MANs measure up.

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New Solutions for Driver Shortages

By Adam Awan - 10 Oct, 2018

An innovative partnership in Scotland is tackling the challenge of how to get more drivers working in the haulage industry. It could be good news on the horizon at last.

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Transport Exchange Group and Teletrac Navman Celebrate 1,000th Vehicle Integration

By Adam Awan - 26 Sep, 2018

An increasing number of road transport operators are using live vehicle data to get more from the Transport Exchange Group’s freight trading platforms.

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Leeds City Council Extends a Hand to Hauliers

By Alastair Graham - 13 Sep, 2018

You might need to be sitting down when you read this because it’s not often that something like this happens: a local council has recognised that the burden of the Clean Air Zone charges will hit hauliers so hard that local business will suffer.

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Freight and the City: Keeping the Show on the Road

By Alastair Graham - 17 Aug, 2018

Logistic industry associations speak out as the new anti-pollution legislation threatens companies and their city transport contracts, arguing that the rules were set by the government and local councils without sufficient reflection on the effects they will have on freight forwarders and hauliers.

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A Life in the Day of a truck racing driver

By Luciana Gouveia - 29 Jun, 2018

With Haulage Exchange sponsoring Rooster Truck Racing this season, James Gordon charts a life in the day of racing driver Luke Taylor to find out what motivates him and why collaboration is so important.

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Why can’t I currently retrofit my commercial vehicle to meet Euro-6/VI standards and when will I be able to do so?

By Adam Awan - 30 May, 2018

Imagine if you could move physical cargo across continents as effectively and smoothly as a computer moves data. This is the groundbreaking concept of the physical internet and a philosophy that logisticians and academics hope to integrate into real-world freight supply chains by 2050.

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How a submariner made electric trucks a reality and why freight exchange platform members should be excited

By Alastair Graham - 4 May, 2018

What links a former Israeli submarine officer to the UK freight sector? The answer is a state-of-the-art electric truck with range extending technology, which could one day dramatically increase the size of a collaborative logistics platforms’ virtual electric lorry fleet.

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Why collaborative logistics has a key role to play in the emergence of the physical internet

By Billy Gardner - 25 Jan, 2018

Imagine if you could move physical cargo across continents as effectively and smoothly as a computer moves data. This is the groundbreaking concept of the physical internet and a philosophy that logisticians and academics hope to integrate into real-world freight supply chains by 2050.

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