Welcome to the third edition of Commercial Motor’s Power Players – the list of the 20 people and organisations we believe have the most influence and exert the most control over the road transport industry.
On the list you will find operators, clients, industry stakeholders and a few off-the-wall choices – some you may have heard of, some you may not. Some make the list because they exert power themselves, others because the organisations they lead have power. A handful are on the list because they represent a sector that has power.
What they all have in common is a direct influence (for good or ill) over the transport industry.
In the 22 December issue of Commercial Motor, we revealed those in 20th to 11th places; they were:
20. Dave Rowlands, technical services director, Wincanton
19. Iain Speak, chief executive, Bibby Distribution
18. David Hunt, vice-president and MD, Ryder Europe
17. Jim Hedderwick, senior vice-president, road logistics, North-West Europe
16. Malcolm Wilson, MD, Norbert Dentressangle Logistics UK
15. Hilary Devey, chief executive and chairman, Pall-Ex, and Dragon
14. Graham Inglis, CEO UK & Ireland and EEMA
13. Geoff Dunning, chief executive, Road Haulage Association
12. Theo de Pencier, chief executive, Freight Transport Association
11. Ian Wainwright, road freight programme manager, Transport for London
Now read on to find out who’s in 8th place.
8. Alastair Peoples, chief executive, VOSA
Being the head of a public sector agency that polices and penalises the private sector can’t be easy right now: there’s pressure from the government to trim your costs and pressure from your ‘customers’ to police more and more effectively.
Doing this balancing act, with apparent ease, is VOSA chief Alastair Peoples. Ultimately, he won the ATF war that dominated his professional life in 2010 – we hear more regularly now from operators wanting to tell us that they’ve become an authorised testing facility than those complaining about VOSA closures. Having said that, there remains a clear concern around re-tests at ATFs that Peoples must address.
VOSA also got wise this year, with staff going undercover on Facebook and gathering evidence of and then prosecuting drivers who flout the law.
And, not before time, VOSA has updated the annual test for HGVs.
Nevertheless the pressure to enforce the law remains: there is still much to be done.
We’re revealing who’s made the rest of the top 10 here, day by day. Here’s the schedule:
10th place – Tuesday 27 December
9th place – Wednesday 28 December
7th place – Friday 30 December
6th place – Saturday 31 December
5th place – Sunday 1 January
4th place – Monday 2 January
3rd place – Tuesday 3 January
2nd place – Wednesday 4 January
1st place will be revealed in the 5 January issue of Commercial Motor.
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