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Longer lorries: Government allows LSTs on roads

SMMT

Since 2013, Greggs has been operating LSTs from our National Distribution Centre in Newcastle. Logistics UK has welcomed the news, hailing it as an opportunity to reduce road emissions and industry costs. They are expected to move the same volume of goods using 8% fewer journeys than current trailers and generate an expected £1.4

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The Know-How Factory

Dinesh Mishra

The focus is on the four areas of mobility, automation, consumer goods and logistics. With regard to our corporate development, the integration of Sommer-Automatic in 1999 and the reorientation of the companies in 2013 was very decisive and is reflected in the corporate success of the last decades. Getting Mechatronic!!