Bees' next-day delivery links with Wilkinson
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BEES TRANSPORT has joined the growing band of operators providing a next-day parcels delivery service.
The company, like Lex Wilkinson part of the Lex Group, has launched Bees Emergency, a high security next-day service from its four depots at Linwood (Renfrewshire), Hinckley (Leicestershire), Feltham (Middlesex) and Leeds.
The Linwood service started three weeks ago, Feltham's two weeks ago, Hinckley's starts next week, and Leeds in three weeks.
Bees' commercial manager, Paul Carvell, told CM that initial results of the Linwood service exceeded expectations, but he was unwilling to specify how much traffic it had generated.
According to Mr Carvell, the Emergency service was started to meet a demand from existing customers who were sending their next-day traffic by other carriers.
Bees Emergency uses Lex Wilkinson's Nightline service for journeys which are not possible with Bees' own 220 vehicles, and the documentation used by Bees has been designed specially to be compatible with the Nightline paperwork. A project manager has been assigned to the service to try to generate new business without letting the regular Bees Security service suffer.
• Bees Transport Southern reports that staff employed at its Feltham site have increased from 30 to 90 in the past year. Its purpose-built security warehouse handles 20,000 parcels a week, many on contract.