Haulage fleet is axed
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• Tanker haulage firm Dawsonfreight is axeing its lossmaking road transport fleet. The move will mean the loss of 15 drivers and 15 vehicles.
Four drivers will remain and the company will continue to operate a 24-hour commercial vehicle workshop and two tanker cleaning stations — one at its West 'Fhurrock base in Essex, and the other in Manchester.
The workshop and cleaning stations are "both thriving" with a turnover of .24m a year, says group chairman Nicolas Dawson. But this would have turned into a loss if the haulage operation had not been abandoned, he claims.
A bid by drivers and selected managers to buy the haulage operation from Dawsonfreight failed. "We offered £200,000 but he wanted £300,000," says one of the drivers. The vehicles will transfer to Landmark Truck Rental, a subsidiary of the Landmark Group which owns Dawsonfreight.