Westminster triumph IRS invests in trailers
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• Three former dustmen have won Britain's biggest local authority cleansing contract, worth 60 million over five years, to clean Westminster's streets.
The three, manager in the council's cleansing department, scooped the deal for the company they have set up together, MRS Environmental Services.
They will buy up to 15 new Norba waste collection vehicles and take over the council's existing 90-vehicle in-house fleet, together with its maintenance workshops.
They plan to re-employ all but 60 of the authority's 812 staff who are being made redundant from the council when the contract starts in February.
Ian Ross, one of the three, is now assistant director for refuse and re-cycling, and started as a dustman with the council earning £50 a week. The other two, David Medrith and Robert Seear, had to do stints as refuse collectors and street cleaners when they joined the council as trainees. They are now senior assistant director of cleansing and assistant director responsible for street cleaning.
Seear says the company will seek other council privatised cleansing contracts. "We are very interested in the Lc;ndon market and there is no question that once we get this up and running we'll go for others," he says.
A gradual programme of replacing existing council vehicles with more sophisticated Norba models will allow MRS to operate more efficiently, he claims, Conservative Westminster is saving over million a year by tendering out.
The three will offer their staff a 20% stake in the company through a share issue. "We can only be successful with co-operation of the work force," says Seear.
He first found an interest refuse collection and cleanin when he worked as a litterpicker on a beach in his sch. holidays. "It seemed a care< that was not very well prow oted," he says. BRS has unveiled a three£15 million strategy that !signed to take the corn! to the number one spot in trailer rental market (CM 8 September).
olin Barr, BRS trailer renaarketing manager, be% the firm's strong truck al and contract hire operawill help it boost trailer al business and overtake petitors like TIP and CenTrailer Rental to capture of the market by 1992. xaking at last week's %port and Distribution Sers' Show, Barr said that e are 4,300 trailers in Vs long and short-term rental fleet. This numwill be up to 4,500 by the of the year. Barr claims will give the company third in the market, ahead of lerent and Rentco.
y 1992, Barr would like to the BRS trailer rental fleet md to 8,500 trailers. )rding to BRS estimates, ing overall trailer rental in 1992 at 35,000 trailers, would give the company a share.
entral to these growth preons is a new company cture dedicated to trailer al. Split among the four regions are specialist trailantal staff. The company offers trailer rental services from 22 of its 90 truck rental sites, and Barr plans to double the number of trailer outlets by 1991.
Customers will also be able to hire BRS trailers from any one of the 167 BRS branches around the country.
"We really have an opportunity to make an impression in the UK while some of the big companies have turned their attentions to Europe," says Barr. To accompany the announcement, BRS Trailer Rental has unveiled a new livery for its trailers.