Toyota wants parts bids
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by Juliet Parish • Four hauliers are to fight it out for a Toyota (GB) contract worth more than 1:2m a year, They will be expected to give Toyota dealers the fastest parts supply service in Europe.
Redhill-based Hammond Transport Group currently has the contract, delivering after-market parts from a centre in Lutterworth, Leics, to 250 UK parts distributors. It has carried out the work for two-and-a-half years.
But now Toyota (GB) wants to switch to night deliveries to avoid daytime traffic congestion. As well as HTG it will invite three other firms to tender for the ci tract next month.
Overnight deliveries will start when the contract is re-allocated in the middle of 1994.
The successful bidder will be making nightly drops throughout Toyota's network of parts distributors, which will increase to 275 in 1994. The current schedule calls for weekly deliveries backed up by an overnight emergency parts service.
About 24 trucks will need to be dedicated to the contract; they will run in Toyota livery. More vehicles could be needed if the Toyota car parc increases from the current 450,000 to almost 600,000 predicted for 1996.
Toyota will not name the other firms in the race, hut Exel, TNT and UCI are believed to be in the running.
It says it is happy with HTG, but likes to test the market on long-term contracts. I The Scottish section of Transport and Gen Workers Union has we 3.88% pay rise for 17 drii employed by Road Haul Association member R Muir of Dreghorn.
Under the deal, whicl being seen as a benchir agreement, the drivers, e neers and mechanics ive a £6 across-the-bc increase on the basic plus a £75 lump sum retrospective compensat Scottish pay awards usu run from 1 January.
This is the first settlen secured outside the fra work of the Scottish j Industrial Council. ' employer's side had origi ly refused a wage Men because of the current re sion. The unions count( by approaching indivic companies direct.
Jimmy Locke, the TG' trade group secretary, & it is a significant brt through considering thatj in Scotland and Engi have not budged. This shi there is movement and will be pursuing it at es opportunity:"
RHA spokesman Scotland Tom Brattin misses the Muir deal a "one-off". And Alexan Muir of R&A Muir says: was an internal comp. decision. At the end of day it has nothing to do v the RI-IA or the J1C."
BRS has raised its offe Scottish drivers to 2% in with its pay increases to ical and administrative si Its first offer of 1.8% rejected.