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Newsflow plans
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• NFC subsidiary Newsflow will enter the magazine distribution field soon, says managing director Doug Cartin.
Negotiations with publishers are underway, but Cartin says it would be "too sensitive" to name them yet. Newsflow plans to increase its depots to 14 and to expand its fleet.
Newsflow is experimenting with artics for the first time in anticipation of planned changes in its operations. Cartin says: "Continued growth and changes in the publishing business have meant we are now doing much more daytime as well as night-time running, and we are doing more multi-drop deliveries. This has brought a need for highcapacity vehicles that take as little space as possible on the road, and are compact enough to get into smaller premises. Artics could fit the bill."
Newsflow's first two artics incorporate low, 12.2m tandem-axle semis built by Southfields and based on the company's Comet chassis and Fleetloada Ultra curtain-sided bodies, plated at 32 tonnes.