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'No-brainee Pollock move
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Wasted mileage will be a thing of the past than (s to a depot switch.
Dominic Perry reports.
A SCOTTISH HAULIER says it will cut more than 100,000 miles in wasted journeys when it completes a depot move in the next few months.
Pollock (Scotrans) started in Musselburgh, to the east of Edinburgh, and is still based there. But it has now secured a contract with the Driving StandardsAgency which will lease its Musselburgh premises, enabling it to develop a site in Bathgate, Midlothian, as its new headquarters.
Fraser Pollock, the company's joint managing director, says: "Most of our customers are in Livingston and further west, so our trucks are wasting about 100,000 miles a year just going up and down the Edinburgh bypass."
Pollock says it will also consolidate its Pall-Ex operation in Dalmeny onto the Bathgate site, saving another £140,000 a year in rent. Pollock adds: -The move is a no-brainer really."
The new depot, bought by Pollock in 2004, is a 13-acre site with nearly 6,000m= of warehousing. The Musselburgh depot has just three acres.
• Pollock has secured a new contract with the packaging arm of paper manufacturer Smith Anderson to handle distribution from its Falkland, Fife-based plant. The firm was recently hit by the administration of Smith Anderson's paper-making division (CM 6 July).