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Transfleet job losses
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• The stagnant truck rental market continues to take its toll on Transfleet, which is to close its Leeds depot with the loss of 10 jobs, and to make a further six redundant at its Newcastle branch.
Transfleet acquired a second depot in Leeds when it took over Chart and, according to sales and marketing director, Mike Nuttall, kept both open in the hope "that further business would turn up". But Transfleet's Asda contract, which was run from the Morley depot in Leeds, was moved out earlier this year "and spread round the country at Asda's request," says Nuttall, "which lost Morley a substantial number of trucks, and we're now not able to maintain two Leeds depots."
Work is to he transferred gradually to the other depot and around 60 staff will be redeployed. Transfleet intends to put the Morley property on the market.
The Tyneside losses are the result of Transfleet's failure to renew a maintenance contract with British Rail, which it had operated for three years.
Transfleet's rental fleet now stands at 1,600.