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Another pallet network is to join the crowded UK market
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Does UK industry really need a 10th pallet network? The director of Global Pallet Networks certainly thinks so. Dylan Gray reports.
THE DIRECTOR OF a new pallet network has played down suggestions that the market cannot support another network.
Global Pallet System (CPS) will he launched at the end of November: it will go live on 15 February 2007 as the 10th network in the UK. Director Mike Chamberlaina founder-member of rival network TPN says: "This is the result of 14 months of planning.We have already hada great response and have signed up41 members to date.
"If you'd seen the responses we've had then you'd know there's room for another two networks. We arc talking about big operators they have been telling us there has been nowhere to go for the past five years."
Chamberlain says that of the 41 members, only eight have been taken from other networks.
Aberdeen-based JOB Transport is one of GPS's new members. Transport manager Kevin Vaughan says: "We are already part of three networks, but this one is a bit different. It's more about the quality than just quantity.
"Though I feel there are too many networks around, this one has come at just the right time. It will be the new playground for the best of the best."
However, the launch has not been universally welcomed. One industry insider says: "To find a complete national network of quality hauliers now is going to be extremely difficult. I'm not saying that you can't find a network, but I'd dispute the quality. There will he a lot of holes to fill in. I think they'll struggle.
"I don't think everyone who's out there at the minute can survive and there may well he some mergers I think this will happen among the weaker networks."
GPS will operate from a3.5 acre site with a 7,200m drive-through hub near Stourbridge,West Mids.