HOWDEN’S JOINERY is hoping to change that. It runs a large mixed fleet of artics and rigids across the UK, France, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland — and is selling the slack.

Contracts manager Stuart Roy says: “We have spare capacity on those trucks daily, so we can offer a service to a third party where we can move their goods from A to B on our kit, which has a pure green OCRS fleet compliance score and a really competitive price.”

For a logistics manager caught short by a demand spike, this is another shock absorber worth knowing about.

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