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Wolverhampton’s Pallet-Track shows charity begins at home – even if home is a cardboard box! Fork Lift truck driver Paul Mallin is used to thinking ‘inside the box’ when it comes to fund raising. Last year Paul, who works at Pallet-Track’s main distribution hub in…

Nigel Parkes, Managing Director of Pallet-Track discusses the recent high Street ‘obituaries’ and the challenges of online retailing The last few weeks on the High Street has resembled a slow motion car crash. Comet was followed by JJB Sports, Jessops, HMV and Blockbuster calling in…

Despite terminology such as ‘lean logistics’, the haulage and distribution industry is not normally associated with healthy eating – in fact quite the reverse. Personnel involved in the supply-chain are more likely to ‘munch on the move’ than sit down for a proper balanced lunch….

A Wolverhampton business that is bucking the recession with figures consistently in the black will be getting ‘in the pink’ later this month as their staff gets involved with the national breast cancer awareness campaign. Pallet-Track employees at the national distribution hub in Millfields Road…

The quarter century milestone sees the leading Leicestershire parcel and pallet carrier recently doubling storage at the Narborough headquarters to over 86,000 sq ft.  “We now have the capability to store over 3500 pallets supported by our excellent distribution networks,” says Greg Barnes, Managing Director….

Nigel Parkes, managing director of Pallet-Track argues that damaged pallets mean damaged reputations. With so much Olympic goodwill floating around the UK, it seems only right that I use a sporting analogy when I discuss how to protect product and pallets in the supply chain….

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CFT Services Ltd, with depots in Wednesbury and Heywood, are thrilled to announce this week the opening of a new depot and storage facility on Potters Lane, Wednesbury, creating local employment and better flexibility for the business. CFT Services Ltd opened their Wednesbury depot in…

A seemingly recession-proof Black Country business that has trebled in size in less than a decade and is set to double its workforce over the next five years has broken yet another record – it has just increased its daily business by more than 1000…

Fuel for thought… one of PW Gates’ New Actros pulls a double-deck, 15.6m Lawrence David trailer. Within just two weeks of setting its first New Actros tractor units on the road, Pallet-Track network member PW Gates Distribution was recording mpg returns comfortably ahead of the…