WAREHOUSING
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At the heart of EFS's growth is its ability to be flexible and offer a one-stopshop for clients. As well as same-day and next-day delivery, vehicle repair servicing, and vehicle reloads, it now offers 30,000ft2 of warehousing.
Mark Jones says: "EFS is not going for the big contracts; we want customers who need a bit of warehousing.
"Since it has been available [for the past 18 months], EFS has been a lot busier, We are going out for work that we probably couldn't have coped with in the past. It's there to attract haulage work, not the other way around." "The four existing double-deck trailers will be converted to sloping front as well."
The Burnley site has a three-bay workshop, which employs seven technicians. In addition to looking after the EFS fleet, which represents 15% of its work, the workshop also carries out third-party servicing, repair and maintenance.
"We inspect every six weeks and we brake test each truck on every inspection. We try to keep our vehicles, mechanically, top notch.
"We do MoT prep and have a 92% success rate," says Jones. •