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13th December 2007
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Surviving The Wait
Lead times are unlikely to get any better in 2008. Louise Cole looks into the underlying causes and asks operators how they are coping. F or several months now commercial......
What Operators Said...
Neil Rushworth, operations director, Expect Distribution 1 have just ordered all our replacement vehicles for the whole of 2008. Our fleet is managed on a contract-hire basis.......
Jonathan Bulmer, Managing Director, Bulmers Logistics
"There are problems with lead times and axle shortages but they don't affect us because we ordered in plenty of time. I ordered 225 trucks last November and everyone thought I......