Family-run haulage operator Les Smith has joined Palletways, Europe’s largest and fastest growing express palletised freight network and part of the Imperial Group. Les Smith Haulage Ltd, which is based in Swindon, will operate across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire for Palletways including in and around the conurbations of Swindon and… Read more »
Delivering the new M4 smart motorway project
Collett & Sons have delivered 120 steel bridge girders on behalf of Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd, from Darlington to the new M4 Smart Motorway between junction 3 and 12 in the South East of England. The M4 J3 to J12 Smart Motorway Upgrade was set up by Highways England with… Read more »
49m blades for Solwaybank Wind Farm
Consisting of 15 Vestas V100 wind turbines, each featuring 49 metre blades and 75 metre towers, Collett & Sons Ltd began the transport of each of the 120 main components and ancillary items from Glasgow’s King George V Dock. With space at a premium at the Glasgow dockside, due to this… Read more »
Pallet-Track’s Harrison Solway overcomes challenging year to celebrate two decades of success
One of Pallet-Track’s inaugural and most-respected network members is determined to go ahead with major celebration plans for its 20th anniversary year – but will hold the champagne corks for a year to mark a real coming of age. Hull-based Harrison Solway, which proudly displays its purple elephant logo across… Read more »
Turbine delivery for Rookery South
Collett & Sons delivered a 160 Tonne Turbine and a 120 Tonne Generator from the Port of Tilbury to the Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) in Stewartby, Bedfordshire. Preparation for the 78-mile journey began in December 2019, when Collett, in association with the project partner Karl Gross GmbH, took… Read more »
THE Pallet Network signs new-to-networks Slough-based KPI Transport
TPN – THE Pallet Network, has signed new-to-networks Slough-based KPI Transport. Its TPN operation goes live on the 17th August. Slough-based Keith Perry International Transport, which trades as KPI Transport, came into new ownership in June 2020. KPI director Ray Burke says he is looking to expand its fleet, its… Read more »
Eddie Stobart GWSA performance update
GreenWhitestar Acquisitions Limited (GWSA) has completed the first half of the 2020 financial year and the first 6 months of trading under the new ownership structure and the new management team led by William Stobart (Executive Chairman) and Brian Corrway (Chief Financial Officer). As a group, GWSA has traded successfully… Read more »
Hauliers back new campaign to help Midlands recovery move up a gear
A coalition of hauliers and trade organisations are backing the Let’s Get The Midlands Moving campaign, a new initiative designed to support Midlands people and businesses as they emerge from the pandemic. As a key campaign partner, the M6toll will assist in getting more goods and materials moving around the… Read more »
TW Road Haulage realises its expansion ambition
Essex-based TW Road Haulage Ltd has realised its expansion ambition by doubling in size and delivery reach, as well as increasing its workforce, less than two years after it joined the award-winning Pallet-Track network. The Basildon company, which started life as a commercial vehicle repair business 18 years ago and… Read more »
A look into the future for the UK Haulage Sector: examining the challenges and opportunities beyond 2021 in the post-COVID world
Driver Require has today released an entirely updated and consolidated report which investigates how the Lockdown has affected our industry; it is essentially a “Road Map”, to provide a clearer understanding of how COVID-19 has affected and will continue to affect the sector for many years to come. But it’s… Read more »
