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The Mover January 2018 Eight Don’t Report: generations compete, Movers and of De Haan collaborate Storers Show Page 8 Page 20 Page 28 Issue 082 January 2018 www.themover.co.uk NICOLA’S BACK! Nicola Mason returns to the moving industry. Page 24 MJ_TRADE_STORAGE_AD_PRINT.pdf 1 18/12/2017 08:44 TRADE STORAGE - DARTFORD YEAR 1 Let’s face it, who would open £5 PER CONTAINER up at 05:30 in the morning ... PER WEEK (Applies to new clients only) C M YEAR 2 Close at 20:30 Y £6 PER CONTAINER at night ... CM PER WEEK MY CY CMY K YEAR 3 6 days WE WON’T a week! RIP YOU OFF! 01322 251 000 - www.matthewjamesremovals.com - [email protected] MJ_TRADE_STORAGE_AD_PRINT.pdf 1 18/12/2017 08:44 www.themover.co.uk ● January 2018 ● The Mover 3 TRADE STORAGE - DARTFORD CONTENTS 24 COVER STORY: Contact Details: Editorial U-MOVE’S NEW RECRUIT Contributions on all aspects of Deputy Editor David Jordan talks to the new general mananger, Nicola Mason YEAR 1 the removals and storage industry Let’s face it, who would open are welcomed, together with £5 PER CONTAINER up at 05:30 in the morning ... photographs if appropriate. 4 LEADER: Thinking about little things 32 REPORT: PER WEEK Please contact Steve Jordan, Editor James Backhouse from Tel: +44 (0) 7831 218028 6 UK NEWS: Backhouse Jones Solicitors (Applies to new clients only) E-mail: [email protected] London house prices 14.5 times average earnings delivered an important Deadline: RTITB in new Logistics 100 talk on the introduction of The deadline for article submission is the 8 PROFILE: General Data Protection 1st of the month preceding publication. OMNI member De Haan are one of a small Rules in the Seminar Theatre Contact Details: number of companies that can boast eight at The Movers & Stores Show Advertising generations of family ownership in November For all enquiries and bookings, please contact Nikki Gee 10 PROFILE: 34 ON THE ROAD NEWS: Tel: +44 (0) 7593 360200 Deputy Editor David Jordan Direct Vision Standards consultation E-mail: [email protected] visited Mac’s Truck Sales FTA Driver of the Year Deadline: at its impressive new Clearer guidance for drivers on sleep apnoea The booking deadline for advertisements premises on the outskirts DKV and Freshmile team up is the 1st of the month preceding publication. of Huddersfield Planned lorry park scrapped C Artwork for adverts is required by the ULEZ to expand London-wide in 2021 8th of the month preceding publication. M YEAR 2 14 INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Close at 20:30 Name change for AMJ Campbell 38 INSIGHT: Y £6 PER CONTAINER Disclaimer: at night ... Opinions expressed in The Mover Container database updated Matt Rhodes from Quiss CM PER WEEK are not necessarily those of its Technology explains MY publisher, unless stated otherwise. 16 RELOCATION: why the Cyber Essentials Lisa Johnson from Crown World Mobility certification is a good CY Published by: tells how international assignments are being way for your company CMY The Words Workshop Ltd 51 Fallowfield sold to young talent as ‘adventure moves’ to show its committment K Ampthill to data protection Bedfordshire 18 INTERNATIONAL NEWS: MK45 2TT First autonomous electric ship 40 PRODUCT NEWS: New Indian logistics company started Tesla announces electric HGV All rights reserved: Electric vans from Mercedes No part of The Mover may be scanned, 20 INSIGHT: New custom-design service from Sofrapack reproduced, stored or transmitted in any Ray DaSilva from IAM’s Mobility Exchange form without the prior written permission explains IAMX, a universal directory for the 42 PEOPLE NEWS: of the publisher. mobility industry CAM announces a new chairman and The Mover is designed on behalf a new president, an obituary for Arthur of The Words Workshop Ltd by 22 ON THE ROAD NEWS: Ziegler, Peter Sewell wins at the EMMAs YEAR 3 I Like Creative Driver CPC helps businesses to build and new appointments at Arpin and 6 days E-mail: [email protected] the UniGroup Board WE WON’T Tel: 01908 675854 28 REPORT: a week! The Movers & Stores Show 44 MARKETPLACE RIP YOU OFF! 2017 attracted over 750 visitors and was one of the 48 DIARY DATES best in its ten-year history 50 AND FINALLY ... Are we losing control? Index of advertisers The Mover .................................................. 23 Maxi Mover ................................................ 26 Matthew James Global Relocations ............ 2 Simpsons Removals & Storage Ltd ............ 13 JC Payne ..................................................... 33 Maxi Mover .................................................. 3 EUROMOVERS ............................................ 14 APT Training ............................................... 34 Mac’s Truck Sales .......................................... 5 Buzzmove .................................................. 15 The Mover .................................................. 37 NEW & USED VANS IN STOCK FINANCE LEASE PART EXCHANGE Edwards Trade Storage ................................ 7 MoverOne International ............................ 15 Macmillan Cancer Support ........................ 41 Mr Box ......................................................... 7 Pac Global Insurance Brokerage, Inc .......... 17 White & Co ................................................. 42 01673 863300 Simpson Packaging ..................................... 9 Mudinmar.................................................. 19 Vancraft ..................................................... 51 WWW.MAXIMOVER.CO.UK Basil Fry & Co ............................................... 9 MoveMan .................................................. 23 Anglo Pacific .............................................. 52 01322 251 000 - www.matthewjamesremovals.com - [email protected] 4 The Mover ● January 2018 ● www.themover.co.uk LEADER Thoughts about little things Steve Jordan, Editor he start of the new year has us all looking towards ● Visitors from Mondial Movers at the show. the future. Some might be contemplating a new Tventure, others might be planning retirement or wondering how to hold the business together for another year. But I started thinking at a much smaller level. Dutch delegation visits You see I recently heard a report by James Burke, the scientist and octogenarian broadcaster, about nano The Movers & Storers Show technology. That’s technology using atomic-sized particles. Nano technology is not science fiction, it’s delegation from Dutch moving company Mondial Movers paid a visit to The Movers & Storers Show in November to help keep abreast of current technology. Nano particles are used to create Athe latest developments in the industry. As well as enjoying the self-cleaning windows, clothes that don’t need washing, impressive display of trucks, members of the group found the new cosmetics, new materials and all kinds of other intriguing technology for video surveys particularly interesting and also attended a things. number of presentations in the Seminar Theatre. Mondial Movers has 27 family-owned branches in The Netherlands, But James let his mind wander into a world where some of which have been in business for over 100 years. The company nano manufacturing was the norm not the exception. In carries out moves within The Netherlands as well as internationally. theory, if it were ever possible to manipulate elements at the atomic level, it must be possible to make anything. Visit mondial-movers.nl. What’s more, the elements needed are all around us in the air, sea and ground – for nothing. Solar power too to provide the energy. If you put two atoms of hydrogen with one of oxygen you will end up with water. In the Ekeri side-loader widens service same way, if you put the right bits together at an elemental scope for Alexanders Removals level, you could make a cheese sandwich, a table, a pint of beer or a pair of shoes. lexanders Removals and unrestricted access with a loading To do this you’ll need a nano factory which should be Storage has taken delivery of length of 8,150mm and a height of able to construct anything you want – including another Aa side-opening 18-tonne 2,740mm.” nano factory. That done, it’s easy to ship them anywhere vehicle from Finnish manufacturer “We provide a comprehensive Ab Ekeri Oy. According to removals and storage service for in the world and make more nano factories (or maybe Alexanders, the new truck will domestic and commercial just beam them around). Just as we all have personal improve loading flexibility and customers throughout the UK computers now, in the future perhaps we’ll have little speed up handling times. and abroad,” added David. “Given factories in our garden sheds to make stuff. The rigid-sided body comes with the wide variety of items we carry, six doors, which open along the it’s essential to have a vehicle Sounds wonderful but, faced with the ability to make body length on the kerbside and which enables fast, secure and anything we like, from nothing, what do we all do? are centrally locked for added flexible loading. All in all the Ekeri People become useless, money is irrelevant, unbridled security. For secure loading, there body’s combination of loading abundance gives us everything for free and nobody has are lashing straps to the floor and flexibility, high security and on both walls. The Ekeri body speedy handling widens the scope any purpose in life. At least there’ll be no crime, as allows access to any part of the of the service we provide and goes everyone will have everything anyway. But it will be the load from the side or rear, which a long way to making sure we can end of the moving industry,
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