Steven Meyer, a driver with Arpin Van Lines, spoke at this year’s Memorial Day observance in Montross, Virginia held on Monday, May 27, at the Old Westmoreland Courthouse.

German, Austrian and Polish antitrust authorities have given the green light for Charge4Europe, a joint venture founded on December 11, 2018 by DKV Euro Service and Innogy; a leading German energy company.

Members of the Latin American and Caribbean International Movers Association (LACMA) gathered in Panama City in February to celebrate the Association’s 50th anniversary.

Deputy Editor David Jordan takes a trip to London’s Docklands to revisit Top Removals five years on.

Sygic, the Slovakian GPS navigation vendor, has unveiled a new Driver Scoring Software Development Kit (SDK) for fleets. The device works offline and is easy-to-integrate into existing fleet management systems, including mobile apps, without any additional hardware costs.

Cartus Corporation has announced a number of new appointments recently.

Sara Lyrum has taken over as group director for Aspire Mobility Group in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the retirement of Gunnar Moeskjaer after over 30 years in the moving industry.

In just 10 years, Bliss has becomes a significant player in the Italian and global moving world. Here, Francesco Argirò explains why he has been successful.

The keynote speaker at the FIDI conference in Amsterdam was Patrick Schwerdtfeger. Patrick is an expert on technology trends. His brief was to talk about technology in general, and Blockchain in particular, to explore how it could change the way in which the moving industry works.

Seville in south-west Spain was the venue for the 2019 OMNI conference. Despite the inclemency of the weather (very unusual for Andalusia in springtime), the friendship between the delegates was as warm as ever.

For some truck operators and drivers, a roadside stop might be seen as an inconvenience. But most understand it’s an essential part of keeping our roads safe and so cooperate with enforcement staff.

Telematics plays an important role in optimising efficiency in the transport industry, but is the ever-watching eye of the TM making driver recruitment more difficult? Deputy Editor David Jordan believes it is.

According to research carried out by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, more than half of the UK’s van drivers admit to making calls behind the wheel without using a hands-free device.

On February 18, the EU reached the decision to regulate CO2 emissions from heavy-duty vehicles. To speed up development, Volvo Trucks says as well as investment in technology, additional measures are needed to stimulate demand for vehicles with low CO2 emissions.

At The Mover we often hear about companies ‘celebrating’ important anniversaries, but when we ask how the party went … well, they didn’t have one. Not so with 50th anniversary celebrations for Metropolitan Transports from Brazil.

During the year 2017-18, 105 transport managers in the UK were disqualified. This was an increase of 36 on the previous 12 months. Here, Paul Dyde, an independent compliance auditor, looks at the reasons and what can be done to reduce the risks.

Phishing is on the increase. Here cyber security specialist Malwarebytes Labs gives advice to businesses on their anti-phishing policies. The company says if you don’t already have one, now is the time to implement an anti-phishing plan.

Intermovers Malaysia has outlawed the use of plastic tape (OPP) in an effort to reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste produced by its packaging departments.

Atlas World Group Inc is to move its international relocation services to Evansville from Seattle while separately forming a new leasing company, AWG Equipment Leasing Inc, to offer competitive financing to its agents and owner-operators. With this growth, the company plans to add up to 75 new jobs in Indiana by the end of 2023.