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Chris Tindall reports on the decision not to renew a controversial TNT contract
CEMENT GIANT RMC is bringing its logistics operations back inhouse after its three-year contract withTNT ends in November.
After controversially handing the contract to TNT in 2001, the Rugby-based company has decided to resume control of its distribution, including the management of a 190-vehicle fleet.
The process will involve the transfer of more than 380 employees from TNT to RMC, a move its director Clive Oakley says will be "seamless". He denies that the u-turn is rooted in TNT's decision last year to introduce a bonus scheme which was worth more in one part of the country than another (CM 9 October 2003). He also refuses
to say how much RMC will save. Oakley predicts that the staff involved with the contract, most of them drivers,will see no changes in their jobs or salaries, although there may be a "transfer around pensions, as defined by TUPE regulations". He expects that most of the TNT employees will agree to the transfer.
However,TNT's MD for operations, Andy Fitt, says the staff are "very disappointed" with RMC's decision. He adds: "If we can, we would like to retain as many of them as possible."
RMC outraged its 106 independent contracted hauliers when it gave the contract to TNT following alleged problems with efficiency (CM 30 November 2000).