Wilson fights for smaller hauliers
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KEIGHLEY, WEST Yorkshire-based Wilson Trailers is pressing the Department for Transport to ensure that the forthcoming trial of longer semitrailers (LSTs) isn’t monopolised by the big players, to the exclusion of smaller companies that want to operate or build LSTs.
“We have at least five customers who are interested in longer double-decks,” says Wilson Trailers sales director Stewart Burton. “They deserve the chance to operate them and we can build them.” Formerly called W Trailer, the firm went into administration last year but was re-born as Wilson Trailers, jointly owned by VID Graeme Wilson and Farlow Engineering, a trailer maker and bodybuilder based in Northern Ireland.
“Farlow supplies us with 99% of our chassis now,” says Burton, explaining that no longer building the chassis inhouse has allowed Wilson to slim down its cost-base. “We set out to build three to four trailers a week this year and we have achieved that,” he adds. ■