Esso's contract triple
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Tanker hauliers Wincanton, Tr and Calor Gas are about ) scoop Esso's soon-to-beived-off national distribution antract between them.
The deals, for wholesale and idustrial deliveries, will go, ources say, to: Calor Gas in le South East; Wincanton in le West and Midlands; and Jnited Transport Tankers in le North and Scotland. Esso rill retain its retail service staDn distribution in-house, using ome of its existing 300-vehicle nd 500-driver fleet.
Esso has hammered out a eal with the Transport and ;eneral Workers' Union, which epresents most of its drivers, .aving it free to carry out relundancies on a voluntary lasis. It has also agreed an efficiency deal" with the union or its continued in-house disribution.
Esso will only admit that it is noving "onto the next stage of iegotiations" with tanker hauliers, after the agreement with the TGWU. "We will not be using one contractor and we hope to have the whole deal wrapped up and running by autumn," it says. The contractedout distribution will continue on Esso-liveried vehicles. At least 400 Esso tankers are already run by outside "authorised distributors".
Wincanton, one of Britain's biggest road tanker operators, says that talks with Esso are "ongoing" but that it has eight locations in Esso's "Area Two"; the West and Midlands, centred on distribution hubs in Manchester, Birmingham, Avon and Hythe. O Wincanton has bought seven aluminium alloy tanker semitrailers from Crane Fruehauf, to operate in the South East. Each has a 35,000-litre capacity, divided into seven compartments, are bottom-loaded and have CF air-suspension.