It's all go at Leeds haulage firm Macfarlane Transport Holdings at the minute. Hot on the heels of its recent acquisition of the assets of fellow Leeds haulier Sewell Distribution from adminsitrators - to be rebranded as Macfarlane's Automotive division - the firm will begin the final stage of its refleeting exercise at the end of this week. It will take delivery of the first tranche of some 200 new Schmitz Cargobull trailers, all in its new livery and fitted
with Microlise tracking devices.
This means that in the 10 months since haualge entrepreneur Stephen Cooke - formerly of Gagewell - bought the "unencumbered assets and goodwill" of Macfarlane Transport from its administrators it will have entirely refleeted with 122 new tractor units - a mix of Mercedes and MAN (and a handfull of ERFs on the way too). It seems that the two German marques have done rather well out of the situation. We invite you, dear reader, to guess which truck manufacturer has been the big loser here... We'll give you a clue, it begins with S.
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Comments (1)
bye bye RIP, macs
Posted by Steven Fowke | July 5, 2008 11:59 AM
Posted on July 5, 2008 11:59