Trans Haul (UK) Ltd In The News
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Management RestructureDue to our continued growth and improvement to systems across the business, we are pleased to announce the following promotions within the business. Operations Manager
David only joined Trans Haul in April last year, but has been quick to make his mark by making sweeping changes to the systems and philosophy of the Leighton Buzzard DC operation, leading to increased customer satisfaction, new and improved systems and procedures for all operations as well as an overhaul of companywide Health and Safety policy and procedures. Managing Director, Nigel Machado said "Dave’s hard work has seen turnover for the Leighton Buzzard DC increase fourfold in just ten months. He has a fantastic ability to implement change and improvements and this promotion is well deserved." Commercial Director
Wayne joined the company in August 2005 as Distribution Manager of the company’s Tring Distribution Centre. After a year and a half managing the operation of the dedicated facility for Lufthansa German Airlines, Wayne moved to the head office at Leighton Buzzard to assist the Managing Director with a number of companywide improvements that he had planned, quickly being promoted to the new role of General Manager. "When I brought Wayne across to Leighton Buzzard, I had a long list of improvements that I wanted to make to the business and I needed some help to move things forward quickly." said Nigel Machado. "I am pleased to say that Wayne’s help has been invaluable to me in the last couple of years and we have achieved everything we planned to do. I am very pleased with Wayne’s performance, but also with his dedication to the company which has earned him a seat on the board." Contact Information: Trans
Haul (UK) Ltd Nigel
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With effect from Monday 3rd March, David Loveridge, Distribution Centre Manager at our Leighton Buzzard facility has been promoted to Operations Manager with responsibility for all operational departments across the business.
Also with effect from Monday 3rd March, General Manager, Wayne Burman has ascended to the board position of Commercial Director.| <<< Return to Main Website | |||
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New Trucks & Trailers OrderedTrans Haul (UK) Ltd has recently placed orders for new equipment to expand our fleet. Trailers We have ordered 3 new Montracon 13.6m curtainside trailers joining our general haulage fleet. We have also ordered a 13.6m Montracon double decker with a sloping fuel saving roof, this brings the total number of double deckers to 3 working on our very busy Pallet Track operation. All trailers have been supplied by BS Trailer Services Limited, based in Leighton Buzzard, on a full repair and maintenence contract with a value of £70,000. Trucks We have ordered 8 new Scania trucks. The trucks ordered are 4 Scania R484 LA 6 x 2/4 MNA tractor units with topline cabs. Two of these trucks will be delivered in May 2008 and the other two in November 2008 due to the terrible lead times for new vehicles. We have also ordered 4 new Scania P 314 DB 6 x 2 MNA curtainside sleeper cabs. These vehicles will operate on both our general haulage as well as the expanding Pallet Track operation. These vehicles will be delivered in November 2008 again due to excessive lead times. All vehicles have been supplied by Scania (GB) Limited, Purfleet. The order value for these vehicles is £615,060.00 Contact Information: Trans
Haul (UK) Ltd Nigel
Machado, Managing Director |
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Investment in TechnologyNew Warehouse Management System features RF technology
The system also includes online facilities for customers to place and track orders and to view their stockholding. "The figures on the web are fully live and customers can also see the progress of their individual orders as they are processed." said David Loveridge, Operations Manager. For further information about how Trans Haul can benefit you company’s supply chain management please contact us. Contact Information: Trans
Haul (UK) Ltd Nigel
Machado, Managing Director |
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Trans Haul are also proud to announce its investment of over £60,000 in a new WMS by Delta Software. As well as providing greater flexibility than its previous system, Delta also gives us radio frequency bar code capture enabling greater accuracy in goods in, putaway, inventory, picking and dispatch.| <<< Return to Main Website | |||
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Grand DesignsSize is important to this go-ahead haulier - as long as family values aren't compromised! Trucking Magazine Article, by Dave Humphries, June 2007 View Trucking Magazine Article, June 2007 (PDF Format) >>> If the measure of a haulier's success is gauged by the number of smart vehicles it operates, then Trans Haul (UK) Ltd is up there with the best. But that's only half the story. While the 15-strong fleet of colourful Scanias now provides the image and market presence MD Nigel Machado once nursed back in his college days, he quickly earned that warehousing was a lot more profitable than the general haulage he was doing at the time. Trans Haul's warehousing capacity has increased in leaps and bounds since Nigel decided to concentrate on developing this side of his transport business 15 years ago. He now has 200,000 sq ft of storage (50,000 sq ft at a new depot in Pitstone with the rest at the Leighton Buzzard main base) available to a wide range of blue chip customers such as Lufthansa German Airlines, EMI, Red Bull and the Thresher Group. While Trans Haul is now able to offer clients a total package of initial collection, storage, order picking and final delivery, Nigel has only recently plugged one noticeable gap in the company's ability to work with a customer on a full 24/7 basis. "For a time, I backed off using our own transport while I built up the warehousing side and used sub-contractors for the final delivery," he explains. "But as the customer base increased, it fuelled the need to provide a reliable next-day delivery service, which we couldn't do on our own." "After an approach from Carl Jones, director of Wednesbury-based Pallet Track, I decided to join it's overnight pallet distribution network and it's been a huge success for us. All member hauliers are shareholders in the company, working towards a common goal." "We don't move huge volumes - about 3500 pallets a night - but we're building slowly with a strong focus on quality and service. Our transport operation has certainly developed on the back of our membership." Like many other aspiring owner-drivers, Nigel started with a small van based at the family home in Kings Langley, aged just 18, after getting fed up with being a garage-based diesel fitter. Operating primarily as a mobile fitter, he did the occasional package delivery as well until a life-changing phone call came from his mother, who worked at GKN Chep in Watford. The company wanted a pallet delivered urgently, and Nigel was asked if he wanted to do it. The rest, as they say, is history. The tools were chucked out of the van, never went back in, and as more and more work came Nigel's way, so did bigger-sized vehicles and bigger premises from which to work. While based in Watford, Nigel struck up a fruitful partnership with Featherstone-based Brian Yeardley Continental, and was by then appreciating the value of being able to store a customer's goods. STORAGE SUCCESS MARQUE LOYALTY He likes the relationship the two have built up over the years, and values Graham's honesty and knowledge of the Scania product above other sales reps - who, on occasion, have sat at Nigel's office table hoping for a sale, but with scant reward. "We get these guys coming around telling me that the truck they're selling is the best you can buy, yet two months previously, they were selling another manufacturer's range and telling me they were the best. There's no continuity." Nigel's desire to give his drivers what he feels are the best trucks money can buy comes from his own driving days (and it's something he still does on occasion, despite the formal business suit he's normally seen wearing). He still loves taking a turn at the wheel and visiting his customers, which he says lets him see what's happening in the real world. It gives him first-hand experience of all manner of problems a driver has to face, and ensures he doesn't lose contact with the group of people he describes as the company's best asset. The Opticruise transmission is just one addition he values in the top-spec Scanias, which he views as vital to ensuring a truck can go anywhere in the country with a happy driver at the wheel. "A happy driver works hard; a miserable driver doesn't," he says with conviction. Several rigid vehicles are used by Trans Haul, including the ubiquitous 17-year-old P93, which all feature tail-lifts - a component Nigel increasingly spec'd on his semi-trailers. Unlike the new Scanias, which are all outright purchases with full R&M contracts, the trailers are leased from and maintained by local supplier BS Trailer Services, which Nigel says provides an exceptional service. He's keen to expand the company at a manageable rate, while not losing sight of how and why the business has arrived at its current state. There is a family-feel to the business that goes back to the days when his mother and father helped fund his initial start, and he has high hopes that his two very young sons, Benjamin and Daniel, will eventually run the business in years to come. In addition, Nigel has a managerial team around him that reinforces this family ethos, while not falling into the trap of stagnation through complacency. With further additions to the fleet due later in the year and the possibility of even more warehousing to cope with the demand, Nigel has taken his company on to an unprecedented level through his willingness to work hard and always say yes to the customer. In the early days, there may just have been a slight negativity in how he would achieve the latter; but now, there is no question about it. 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Haul (UK) Ltd Nigel
Machado, Managing Director |
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Local Haulier Tops 'Fastest Growing' List
Leighton Buzzard logistics provider Trans Haul (UK) Ltd have announced today that they have topped the list of the Fastest Growing Hauliers in the Sub-£10m turnover category of Motor Transport magazine’s annual survey. Turnover has more than doubled in the year to November 2005 and looks to further increase by 40% in the year to November 2006 for the local company. The increase is as a result of the acquisition of a number of blue chip clients following their move from Luton to Leighton Buzzard in 2004. “The growth has been so dramatic that we have had to acquire an additional distribution centre at the new commercial development in Pitstone and are planning to double the size of our presence in Leighton Buzzard in the new year.” said Managing Director Nigel Machado. With over 100,000sqft of warehouse space already and set to increase to 160,000 in January, Trans Haul certainly seem to have the storage aspect well covered. Trans Haul attributes it’s success to providing flexible solutions to the wide variety of requirements that their different clients seek. “We aim to deliver a full service logistics solution, which can include collection, storage, stock management, order processing and delivery, supported by full transaction transparency provided by regular reports” said Business Development Manager, Aaron Elvines
And the growth has also meant the expansion of the fleet with six trucks less than two years old, two of which arrived this month. “It’s been a lot of hard work growing the business since I started with one van back in 1987 and now it’s really taking off. We are extremely grateful to our long-term clients who have helped our growth over the years and I have had the support of some amazing staff too.” said Mr Machado. END Contact Information: Trans
Haul (UK) Ltd Nigel
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Press
Release, Leighton Buzzard,
30th November 2006
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it comes to delivery, as well as their own fleet of vehicles ranging
from vans to artics, Trans Haul also have the option of the nationwide
next-day pallet service offered by Pallet-Track, of which they are a
shareholder member. “Pallet-Track enables us to provide a fast
delivery service for smaller consignments at a fraction of the cost of
direct haulage.” Said Mr Elvines. It is a very popular service
and has grown so fast in the past year that we now to send two truck
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Trans Haul UK's New Online Job Entry System
At Trans Haul (UK) Ltd we are always looking for new ways in which to improve our service to our growing client base. We are therefore pleased to announce the latest technical development involving an innovation in internet technology. Trans Haul’s Online Job Entry System has been designed to be a simple and convenient option for customers to notify Trans Haul of the pallets that they want to send via the Pallet-Track nationwide next-day and 48 hour economy delivery service and is used instead of faxing a manifest sheet to the Trans Haul UK Ltd office. Using a system developed by Vigo Software, who also provide Trans Haul’s Haulage Management System and indeed the freight routing software used by the entire Pallet-Track network, Trans Haul cannow offer a more responsive booking system to the users of their pallet delivery service.
A Trans Haul representative visits the client to give them their unique Login Name and Password and to show them how the system works. A manual is left in case of query but it is hardly needed with such a user friendly system and Trans Haul personnel are always just the other end of the telephone if any help is needed. To find out more about Trans Haul’s Online Job Entry System, please contact us on 01525 859662 or send an email to enquiries@transhaul.co.uk. |
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As it is a web based system, there is no software to install, the whole process being carried out on the internet via a special website that Trans Haul have set up exclusively for this purpose. As a web based solution it is intuitive and therefore very easy to use.| <<< Return to Main Website | |||
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Haulage Giant Signs New DealCommercial Property News Article Feb 2005 Leighton Buzzard has seen its largest letting deal in recent memory. Haulage and storage giant Trans Haul UK has taken a six-year lease on the 54,135 sq ft warehouse at Grovebury Road, its third warehouse facility in the town. Agent Lambert Smith Hampton's Milton Keynes office handled the deal on behalf of landlord Mountcity Investments.
Book wholesaler Columbia Marketing has secured an eight-year lease on warehouse space in French's Avenue, Dunstable. Le Grand Shed will house Columbia's storage, distribution and administration facilities. The deal comes on the back of another agreed to existing occupier De La Rue for a further 40,000 sq ft of accommodation in French's Avenue. De La Rue employs 6,600 people in 31 countries and is the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker. ChallengingLambert Smith Hampton's Luton office, with joint agents Holley Blake. handled the deal for the 79,251 sq ft warehouse on behalf of commercial property investor Land Securities Group plc. Diccon Brearley, of LSH Luton, said: "These premises met all of Columbia Marketing's requirements. The premises are newly refurbished, while having storage and distribution consent along with light industrial use." John Rodgers, portfolio manager at Land Securities Group, said that the unit's location had enticed the distribution companies. "These lettings demonstrate that even in a challenging market well-located and high specification properties are in demand," he added. A 40,452 sq ft warehouse unit with office accommodation of between 1,929 sq ft and 13,118 sq ft remains available on the site. |
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CASE STUDY/APPLICATION
NOTE FROM TRANSLIFT BENDI
Articulated forklifts up pallet storage capacity
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REACH FOR THE STARS!Starchaser visit to West Cumbria sets young minds dreaming…Over 1,600 West Cumbrian pupils and teachers have enjoyed the thrilling sight of a real man-carrying rocket on their doorstep, thanks to IMechE West Cumbria.
Starchaser founder, MD & Chief Test Pilot, Steve Bennett was able to visit Stainburn School in person to deliver a thrilling presentation outlining the history of Starchaser development, including awesome video footage of the launch of the actual rocket from Morecambe Bay in 2001 – the largest rocket ever to be launched from the UK mainland. From being passionate about rockets as a boy, Steve has relentlessly followed his dream of being able to build and launch a man-carrying rocket. The formation of Starchaser Industries Ltd is allowing the opportunity to bring in more funds to build the most ambitious rocket yet – Starchaser V/Thunderstar, a three-man carrier! Starchaser have clearly achieved miracles on a shoestring budget compared to other teams around the world, one of whom won the $10m X-Prize on the day of the presentation, but Steve was undaunted. “The technology we are developing at Starchaser will provide low cost, low risk access to space travel for all, as well as providing a highly economic launch platform for future satellites”.
The schools combined the visit with their own rocketry
workshops, and feeder schools from the area joined the pupils from Stainburn
& St Benedict’s in sharing the excitement of the visit and the
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The all-British STARCHASER IV/Nova rocket & capsule
saw heads turn in amazement as the rocket travelled into the county, and
the reception at both schools – Stainburn School & Science College,
Workington and St Benedict’s Catholic High School, Whitehaven –
was enthusiastic and memorable.Luke Griffith, Starchaser Engineer, was
on hand to deploy the rocket into launch position but high gusting winds
restricted the angle of lift to only 45 degrees – still a mightily
impressive sight. Luke also did sterling work answering the many questions
from hoards of excited pupils who gathered round to see the rocket for
themselves.
An evening presentation also saw an inspirational talk
by Stuart Atkinson of Cockermouth Astronomical Society on the history
of flight, which highlighted the progress made by mankind in the century
since the Wright Brothers, and looked forward to ventures such as Starchaser
opening up space for all in the very near future. John Kelly, Starchaser
Outreach Presenter, was equally impressive in presenting to pupils at
St Benedict’s.