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www.truckandtrack.com Spring 2020 Truck and Track 57 PALLET NETWORKS Live Signature Capture and Real Time POD UPNMember - K&RMason also offer the widest range of pallet options within the sector, with our 2.2metre full, and half pallets, and our quarter, micro, euro, and oversized pallet options.” “UPN customers are wide ranging, from the NHS to the big motor manufacturers, and all extremes in between. Our unique Micro Pallet is great for sectors such as the print sector with heavy small pallets. Our client range is vast and we aim to offer them all the same level of respect, expertise and efficiency.” Cutting edge “Smart” initiatives from UPN’s IT team help keep the company as market leaders in the Pallet Network Sector. UPN took the strategicdecision that, rather thango tomarket andsource third party applications, the company would set up its own specialist IT development team. It is a decision that is paying real dividends as UPN is actively controlling its own destiny and growth curve. As well as its SmartHUB operational management system, UPN also implements two other support systems – SmartPOD and SmartDOC. With SmartPOD, UPN were the first company in the sector to provide a multi-platform Live Signature Capture App. Also with SmartPOD, uploaded proof of delivery is available within seconds of the delivery being made. SmartDOC is the UPN “paperless paperwork system” - a bespoke UPNsystemdevelopedtomanageandcontroltheflowofcustomers’ own paperwork, more cost effectively and more efficiently within the UPN delivery system. United Pallet Network began operations in June 2001 with just 18 members, initially at Tuxford. Founder Martyn Chapman invested his own savings to establish the company. At the time, there was an increasing demand from hauliers to be a part of a Pallet Network whilst there was a lack of Networks available to meet that need. Already involved within a Network with his own regional company, Martyn knew the importance of getting it right when setting the foundations for his new nationwide business. He sold the regional business andconducted threemonths of duediligence research into the palletised freight sector to confirm the opportunity for a new entrant – the rest is history and, as the company reaches its 20th anniversary next year, the future looks very bright for continued strong, steady, stable growth through the next decade and beyond. www.u-p-n.co.uk UPNMember - LV Shipping & Transport