Truck and Track Spring 2021

Truck and Track Spring 2021 www.truckandtrack.com 46 PALLET NETWORKS In nostalgic déjà vu scenes reminiscent of the film Back to the Future, to provide much-needed additional capacity, leading logistics company Pallet-Track is about to open a new hub in Wednesbury, just yards away from the original Black Country facility it launched its fledgling business from17 years ago. Pallet-Track launched inWoden RoadWest, Wednesbury in January 2004, moving 852 pallets on its first night of operation. Today, with a 267,000 sq ft landmark central hub in Millfields Road, Wolverhampton, a southern hub in Welwyn Garden City and another for the north in Wigan, Greater Manchester, the business tranships in excess of 18,000 pallets per day through its UK-wide network and, importantly, has never lost a single consignment since trading began. Now, after a record start to 2021, which has seen the addition of two newnetworkmembers and growth in excess of 20% compared to the previous year, a trend that looks unlikely to slow, the business has signed a lease on a new 150,000 sq ft facility with scope for an additional 3,000 pallets per night to relieve pressure on the main hub - in none other thanWoden RoadWest. Set up by founder Nigel Parkes on a people-centric promise to deliver on service and quality, as well as a pledge to repay every penny of those founding members’ investment if the business had failed, the market and thought leadership focus remains the same although, as of April 1, there has been a changing of the guard at the top as Caroline Green took over as the new chief executive officer (CEO). Back to the Future - A changing of the guard, but not the strategy Pallet-Track sets a course for the future with new CEO Pallet-Track’s #Hooray for Hauliers campaign writ large on the JMS and PWGates trailers Caroline Green, the new CEOwith Nigel Parkes, the founder and former MD