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Unite's Road transport commercial, logistics and retail distribution trade group covers over 100,000 lorry and van drivers, together with warehouse staff and other back-up employees. Overall, some 140,000 Unite members work in transportation, so get involved with the union that fights back for workers in transport/logistics to give it its modern name.

The sector organises across all areas of the industry. As well as warehouse and support, Unite is active in all aspects of road transport/logistics, in the milk industry, from collection, through processing towards delivery, Unigate, St. Ivel, Co-op Milk and Express Dairies are key companies where the union is organised. Famous names like Excel Logistics, Reality and TNT, Wincanton are all liveries driven by road transport commercial, logistics and retail distribution  members. In addition, the parcels sector is another growing force which has seen a significant advance in membership in recent years and the sector also covers all other groups of drivers and logistic workers in general haulage (hire and reward), in chemical and oil, petrol distribution, car collection and heavy haulage. Unite is the transport workers union!

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• RTC news

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• Truckstop campaign

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• Unite brief on fixed penalty fines

  June 2009 update.

• Sustainable Transport and the Environment Guide

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• The Highway

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• ADR Driver Training

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• Education

  Report back on the attendance of a group of RTC members who attended one of the many courses available at Unites education facility in Eastbourne.

• RTC Health and Safety

• Freight Best Practice

  Freight Best Practice is funded by the Department for Transport (DfT) and managed by AECOM to promote operational efficiency within freight operations. Freight Best Practice offers FREE essential information for the freight industry covering topics such as saving fuel, developing skills, equipment and systems, performance management and multi modal. All FREE materials are available to download from this site or can be ordered through their Hotline

• EU Transport White Paper

  Transport 2050