One of the keys to South Africa’s urban transport challenges
In South Africa, our transport, storage, and communications industry contributed almost R350 billion to GDP in the first quarter of 2022, a 1.8% increase from the fourth quarter of 2021. The transport industry accounts for around 6,5%...
Africa celebrates Women in Transport Awards this Women’s Month
SA’s leading trade event honours female pioneers within the transport industry
In recent years, great strides have been made to close the gender gap through the development and implementation of empowerment programmes focused...
To create a world class supply chain, the SA logistics industry needs better, faster...
Estimates suggest the logistics industry contributes around 10 to 12 percent towards South Africa’s GDP. But in order for the country to command a larger market share for its products on the global stage, supply chains need...
How gamification can level up your e-learning for your franchise network
We all know how social media gamifies communication by offering immediate, vivid, and quantified evaluations of our conversational success. These game-like features are responsible for much of social media’s psychological wallop. Social media is addictive, in part,...
FAW Trucks flourishes as reliable partner to agricultural sector
The agricultural industry is an integral part of FAW Trucks’ marketing strategy and the number of customers from this sector has continued to grow over the brand’s 28-year presence in South Africa. Main selling points continue to...
VWSA makes massive strides in environmental sustainability initiatives
As a major step on the road to Zero Impact Production, Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) has implemented two projects to dramatically reduce the environmental footprint of its Kariega plant.
The first project is...
Allison Transmission collaborates with Freightliner Custom Chassis
Allison Transmission is pleased to announce that uprate variants of the Allison 1000 Series™ and 2000 Series™ transmissions will be integrated into Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation’s (FCCC) new powertrain combination for its MT walk-in van chassis. The...
Hughcor takes delivery of new DAF truck
Hughcor, a Durban-based long-distance transport company, has taken delivery of its first DAF truck, citing performance, fuel efficiency and, more importantly, the ‘new’ Babcock backup regime behind the DAF brand, as central to the buying decision.
Budding ‘iron women’ have diesel in their veins
They may have been dwarfed by the enormous truck behind them, but the cohort of determined young women in pink T-shirts posing in front of its colossal trailer were anything but overshadowed. They were all on their...
People are vital to the supply chain
As much as automated systems are revolutionising supply chains, human capital – and more importantly, the quality thereof – remains paramount.
In Part 1 of the State Capture Commission’s report released this year, Justice...
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Serco wins new order for Pharmaceutical bodies
In December Serco completed 54 refrigerated truck bodies for Virtual Logistics a division of Adcock Ingram, a new customer to Serco– which the leading...
