Our 2,500-mile drive, which many of you have been tracking using the Transport Exchange Group’s live mapping system, draws to a close this weekend. Thank you to all of you who have followed us in our Land Rover Defenders for the last fortnight as we’ve raised vital funds for Kidney Research UK. You’re probably already […]
Read full articleMany of you have been keenly following the Defenders 4 Kidney team as it visits Kidney Transplant centres up and down the UK to raise vital funds for two leading kidney charities. Barry Jacobs, the man behind the idea, spoke to the Transport Exchange Group about the brave people he’s met and their inspirational stories… […]
Read full articleThe Transport Exchange Group is supporting Defenders 4 Kidneys. Could you help too? It’s a real-time mapping system that helps couriers and hauliers win loads and reduce empty miles, but for the next 16 days the Transport Exchange Group’s Live Availability Map will also be charting an altogether different journey made by a convoy of […]
Read full articleSo, you’ve heard of Bitcoin – the virtual currency that is currently being sold at ten thousand pounds a pop. No doubt you’ve read the fascinating stories of how fortunes have been won and lost when the currency has been traded. Anyone clever or brave enough to have invested just UK£50 in Bitcoin in 2008 […]
Read full articleIt is a bit of a mouthful, and equally tricky to understand, but on Friday, 25th May, General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR to you and me – comes into force. However, what does this complicated new law mean for you and me, more importantly, why should you care? I pose the question because […]
Read full articleBy James Gordon, Editor If you use collaborative logistics platforms on a daily basis, then I probably don’t need to spell out the benefits. I probably don’t need to mention how operational efficiency gains brought about by enhanced load consolidation, or how reduced fuel costs from fewer empty miles have improved your bottom line. Nor […]
Read full articleWith over 30 million users a month in 425 cities in 72 countries, some would say that Uber is fast changing the face of global road transport. The start-up, which was founded by Travis Kalanick in 2010, has severely disrupted the taxi industry in many cities around the world.[i] And now it seems, Kalanick, whose […]
Read full articleby James Gordon – Editor They draw far less attention than freak weather warnings, but for the majority of the 64 million inhabitants[i] who live on our crowded islands, not paying adequate attention to air pollution alerts could prove much more deadly. Take England’s capital city for example. Last month, particulate levels in London were higher […]
Read full articleTransport Exchange Group is now partnering with 10 of the leading telematics specialists – enabling data from various vehicle tracking tools to be combined, and creating “the first system-neutral telematics integration platform”. “The telematics marketplace remains incredibly fragmented, so while adoption is now much more widespread, many systems have no means of communicating with each […]
Read full articleMore couriers, owner drivers, hauliers, freight forwarders and logistics providers are turning to Transport Exchange Group (TEG) not only to bear down on empty returns to gain business on the move. TEG posted record growth in the first half of this year, as the transport industry seeks to improve asset utilisation and efficiency. Membership of Haulage […]
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