Palletways’ Milton Keynes depot is celebrating two years in business having been launched just a week before the first lockdown in March 2020. Based in the Kiln Farm area of Milton Keynes, the business employs 35 people, in office and sales posi…
Palletforce has delivered 50 million pallets of freight since its launch in 2001, the network announced this week. The business, which has 110 members and 15,000 daily customers, attributed the 50 million pallets milestone to investment across t…
Fortec Distribution has launched a logistics depot at its Watford Gap site. Launched in December 2021, the depot will now operate as part of both the Fortec and Pall-Ex distribution networks offering delivery services to manufacturers and distri…
Fortec Distribution Network has seen an investment of £430,000 in its Northamptonshire hub in a move to improve efficiency and capacity. The bulk of the investment has been spent on a new fleet of 36 forklift trucks from Still, with an additiona…
Pall-Ex Poland transported its millionth pallet this week as the network continues to grow. It said volumes in the central European country were healthy and with members from Gdynia to Zakopane and from Szczecin to Lublin collecting, consolidati…
The board of Palletline is preparing to sell the business and is currently working with advisors to set the terms, Motor Transport has learnt. Potential buyers could include Amazon – a major customer of Palletline, which is currently the only pa…
Owens Group has strengthened its service offering by becoming a shareholder member of Pall-Ex. The Llanelli-based family firm joined Pall-Ex in February having taken ownership of longstanding Fortec member Celtic Couriers in late 2021. Owens emp…
Pall-Ex has promoted its UK network director Sue Buchanan, to international network director, focusing on global expansion. Buchanan has worked at Pall-Ex for over seven years and drove member recruitment, volume growth and compliance in her pre…
United Pallet Network (UPN) has announced “DRIVE SERVICE QUALITY” as its “route to success” in 2022.
“DRIVE SERVICE QUALITY” has been introduced this year by UPN to further energise a strong team ethic nationally and regionally to help the leading UK…
THE Pallet Network (TPN)’s gender pay gap report has revealed substantially higher pay on average for women than for men, due to the high number of women in senior positions.
Although logistics is generally considered a male-oriented sector, TPN’s an…
Warehouse and logistics business HMT Group is encouraging non-HGV drivers to make the step up to Class 1 and 2 driving levels with the use of an Isuzu Grafter 3.5-tonner as a training vehicle. It’s the first Isuzu truck in the group’s fleet and …
Pallet-Track’s Wigan hub has hit its two millionth pallet milestone less than five years after it opened. The 70,000sq ft Ashton-in-Makerfield site was selected because of its close proximity to the motorway network and initially engaged with 30…
Universal Courier Logistical Services (UCLS) in Willenhall has joined Pall-Ex Group subsidiary Fortec, covering the TF and WV postcode areas. Founded only in 2018, Fortec said UCLS had experienced rapid growth and now had 17 depots across Englan…
The industry has given a mixed reaction to new data suggesting nearly a third of the UK’s hauliers are at risk of imminent collapse due to record diesel prices and rapidly rising driver wages. Accountants Price Bailey checked the credit risk sco…