by CCS Logistics | Mar 22, 2012 | News
Am I the only one that looks at the stories from the past in the back of Truck Journal with a sense of regret that those times are gone? Certainly the work was hard, but the sense of team work born of hard manual labour required to get the job done and a focus on...
by CCS Logistics | Nov 28, 2011 | News
It only takes one road trip to remind me that even the bad guys are good in their own ways. I lost count of the trucks we followed at over 100km/h as we headed away for a long weekend on the motorbikes this week. But even these guys see a clear stretch of road ahead...
by CCS Logistics | Nov 24, 2011 | News
I am pleased to announce that CCS Innovation in Logistics has been contracted to extend the (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) Energising Business programme to the transport industry. This means that if you run a transport fleet and spend less than...
by CCS Logistics | Sep 15, 2011 | News
Were you pretty happy with your first ORS rating? You should have been as 95% of operators rated a 4 or 5 star. The second ratings are being processed at the moment and the word is that that number is starting to slide. The reason is not that you have let standards...
by CCS Logistics | Aug 15, 2011 | News
A ride I went back to my roots this month and spent 22 hours in a truck – non stop, except for the obligatory pie (sorry log book) stops. Thanks to the Chilean ash cloud I was stranded in Auckland and, wanting to get home sooner rather than later, I called a customer...
by CCS Logistics | Jul 15, 2011 | News
The CVIU’s new Top Cop Gwynne Pennell unveiled a new approach to commercial vehicle policing at the RTA seminar in St Arnaud in May. She is intending to use data to plan where and when to deploy the energy and resources of CVIU; the biggest risks will attract the most...