Vauxhall Plant at Ellesmere Safe
Vauxhall to Increase Production at Ellesmere Vauxhall today have announced a major increase in the production levels at Ellesmere, which is key maufacturere of the New Astra Sport.  An increase in demand for the vehicles has meant that an additional 3rd daily shift is proposed from 2011, and that no redundancies are no anticipated. This is great news for Ellesemere and its workers, particularly as only a few weeks ago the proposed break up of GM threatened over 6000 jobs.

Massive increase in Courier costs in China
Couriers Price hike threatens Online Traders China Daily reports that unrivalled price increases in the cost of couriers are being seen in China.  The price rises seem to be applying currently to the Domestic courier businesses, that have seen themselves overwhelmed by volume particularly from small online retailers, some of them see the price rise as a way of eliminiating the smaller lower profit business customers.  Part of the reason is also down to a rise in the basic commodity costs, the rates of labour, and of oil and gas

Internet takes chunk out of the Bike Couriers Market
Demand for Bike Couriers falls as customers switch over to the Internet The Bike Courier market is facing another decline as customer choose to switch over to using the Internet.  Several years ago the limitations of bandwith, broadband services and the Internet meant that the maximum size of document that you could send via the internet was infact quite small.  Particularly when any document contained any images or photographs. Now however, the internet if fighting back.  With document transmission services, and online brochures and PDFs that people can simply read online, or download and print locally if required.  And the impact of this is that t

Sit back and put your feet up - whilst driving up the motorway??!!
Road Trains to take the Strain Many will remember the Jimmy Saville adverts, this is the age of the train, and let the train take the strain, well now, some clever bods are using wireless technology to create road trains.  The lead vehicle would be driven by a professional driver who be responsible for monitoring the status of the road train.  Sat-navs would be used to alert drivers to road trains that are on their roads, and covering routes similar those of potential drivers, drivers could then join the road train and simply sit back, put their feet and hands up, whilst the lead vehicle takes control. A far fetched idea?  Not so, trials are already und

Will Boxby Couriers Be Asked To Deliver The Royal Mail Letters And Parcels?
Boxby Say they can deliver letters and parcels for the Royal Mail Now! If the Royal mail are looking for alternative ways to deliver letters and parcels to Remote parts of United Kingdom, then Boxby Couriers is their answer. With hundreds of courier companies working with Boxby that has thousands of vans on regular routes all over the UK. "It would be easy for Boxby to arrange a regular pick ups from Royal Mail from any sorting offices and have it delivered to any central collection point and sorting offices in any part of the UK, and I'm sure this would be a big help with the backlog of millions of letters and parcels