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13th July 2006, Page 59
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Parker Transport. During that time, managing director Kelvin Parker has increased and, in turn, reduced his fleet and moved his operating centre from a mobile work unit to a large office with 1.580m2 of warehousing space.

In his view, LGV numbers should work along the lines of a sliding scaletailored exactly to work schedules, moveable feasts of trucks adapting to change.

Up in the boardroom,there are some 50 shiny trophies.The assumption is that Parker and his employees are all sporting superheroes. But the prizes have all been secured at truck shows."We've been entering them since I 988,and we've won best fleet at Peterborough.Shepton Mallet and Edinburgh," he says.

Today. there are 11 LGVs in the fleet: 17 tractors and four six-wheel rigids.There are also 10 subcontractors, half of whose trucks run in the Parker Transport livery.

Five of the subbies used to work for the firm, until Parker gave them the opportunity to buy his trucks and set themselves up as owner-dri vers.This was to the advantage of both parties the drivers took on responsibility for the trucks and accompany ing paperwork, and gained the opportunity to establish their own businesses while still benefiting from the safety afforded by known and trusted work routines.

As recently as 2003.

Parker fielded 48 trucks. Many of these served a supermarket chain. The work was 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he says..

Running a round-the-clock pool of L.GVs can be a stressful exercise, This is all right if you rilt.

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