Tait Transport Solutions Upgrades Its Fleet

Upgrading the fleet meant changing from outright ownership of the trucks to a rental agreement, with a deal struck with Dawsongroup, who has a site in Glasgow.

*With a new name, look, depot and fleet, Tait Transport Solutions is still providing the same professional service it first delivered seven years ago. Kevin Swallow, editor of Transport News, travelled to Bellshill to speak with boss Chris Tait about the transformation. He writes:

Last year, Chris Tait made sweeping changes to the seven-year-old transport business he started following his departure from DHL. Out went the old DGG Freight name, to be renamed and rebranded as Tait Transport Solutions. The aging fleet of owned trucks was replaced with new vehicles in a deal struck with Dawsongroup, and if that wasn’t enough, the company relocated from its shared space at Cumbernauld to a new site, complete with warehousing, in Bellshill.

I’ve arrived at the new site, which would be a credit to anyone involved in transport.

The move in September 2023 also brought a change in the heavy goods vehicle operator licence to 18 trucks and 21 trailers, and the new company name with a family feel: Tait Transport Solutions.

Overall, the business incorporates UPN alongside a dedicated freight service for its customers. Chris explained what a working week looked like as a pallet network operator. “Our warehouse opens at 6am, the first drivers are in at 7am and by 9am all the drivers are out. For example, today (7 November 2023), we will have five tractor units and trailers, six 18 tonners, a 7.5 tonner and a van out making deliveries and collections up until 5pm, when they will come back to the yard.

“Pallets are processed and loaded. Three tractor units will then trunk with the double-deck trailers, and if it’s busy we’ll send four. The first trunk will leave at five o’clock, and every half hour after that. The first trunk returns in the morning at around 5am, and the process starts again for Tuesday and the rest of the week through to Saturday morning.”

*(Extracts by kind permission of Transport News from an article in their February edition.)

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