Roadline re-equip
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ROADLINE UK is continuing with its plans to reorganise parcel deliveries, and announced a Scottish reorganisation in Edinburgh this week.
Scottish regional director lain Macnab said that the company is spending £100,000 on a re-equipment of its Portobello depot in Edinburgh, and that it is launching a 24hour express delivery service in Eastern and Southern Scotland.
Sorting operations at Earlston, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Dundee, and Aberdeen branches are being transferred to Edinburgh in line with the 'policy of running hub centres and satellite branches.
Nationally, the NFC company is pursuing a make-orbreak policy by introducing the hub centres this year. It has pledged that 10 threatened branches will stay open this year if the company operates .within five per cent of its budget.
So far, after one period of the year (historically the least successful), the company is keeping to its budget.
The aim of the new system, which will lead to no compulsory redundancies, is to speed up the parcel delivery service and make it competitive with the private sector. It wants all deliveries to be achieved within three days.