NFC will grow in Scotland
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THE NFC has plans in the pipeline for Scotland, the Corporation's chairman, Sir Daniel Pettit, told a Press conference in Glasgow last week.
Sir Daniel said that at present out of a total of £300m in business expected in 1975 he estimated that £30m resulted from the NFC's Scottish activities. The Corporation employed 5,000 people in Scotland with 3,000 vehicles and trailers and 11 sqft of warehousing and storage space.
Sir Daniel said that in Scotland, a major area of development, the emphasis would be on decentralisation and not a monolithic structure. " We have got to be customer focused," he said.
The NFC's plans included operation of cold storage facilities. The new freightliner terminal at Coatbridge would be handling 70 wagons a day • by the autumn and 200,000 containers a year. It was emphasised •that while the Corporation's new company Tay-Scot had been set up to improve services in warehousing, distribution, contract hire and specialist services the other companies in Scotland would continue to operate as autonomous units.
" We shall probably expand into truck rental •in due course," said Sir Daniel, who was high in his praise of Scottish management and said that some of the NFC's management team had been recruited north of the border. He announced that Mr Tom Atkins, chairman of Tay-Scot, was to retire at the end of this year.
Referring to the impending 8hr driving day he said that NFC's UR network of depots included 80 in Scotland, and would help the Corporation overcome the constraints which the new regulations impose.