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Merseyside firm is Britain’s top haulier

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Client: DAF Trucks
Date: 16th Jul 10

Merseyside firm Abbey Road Tanks has been voted ‘Haulier of the Year’, the most coveted award in the UK road transport industry.

The company will now go on to represent the UK in the ‘European Transport Company of the Year Award 2011’ in Brussels next February.

Steve Granite, managing director, and his co-directors at the Bootle company, lifted the trophy in front of an audience of 1400 leading industry figures at the prestigious MT Awards, the Oscars of the industry. The glittering presentation evening, hosted by impersonator Rory Bremner, took place at London’s Grosvenor House on Tuesday 13 July.

In the most hotly contested category of the awards the judges declared Abbey Road Tanks to be: “an outstanding road haulage company showing strong financial results and a commitment to professionalism, customer care, safety, training and the environment”.

Steve Granite said: “To win this award at our first attempt and against strong competition from some of the UK’s leading transport companies is a credit to everybody working in the company. It really was a ‘one team’ effort involving every employee right across the company.

“The work that everybody has put in has resulted in a very tangible improvement in our customer care levels and company image. This undoubtedly contributed massively to our win but perhaps more importantly it is underpinning the steady growth of our business in what are very challenging economic times in the transport industry.”

Founded in 1990, the company today runs a fleet of 130 DAFs and 160 trailers, mostly tankers, although it has recently added 20 trailers for palletised loads. It specialises in the transport of foodstuffs from vegetable oils to chocolate and sugar, which it does throughout the UK for a number of the country’s leading food producers.

It has 220 employees at its Liverpool headquarters and satellite depots on the Wirral, in Manchester and Hull and at Erith in Kent. Annual turnover is around £20 million and the company has consistently achieved profit growth throughout each of the past five years of around 15%.

 

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David Rowlands, Automotive PR       t: +44 (0)20 7494 8050;

e: drowlands@automotivepr.com

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