2010 transport plans outlined by Wincanton’s new Managing Director

Chris Kingshott, Wincanton’s new Managing Director for Manufacturing, has highlighted some areas vital to help them keep to their pledge of taking another 10 million truck miles off the road this year. Two of these are consolidation centres and more shared-user networks.

Kingshott says that they are starting to see environmental demands from customers returning, and that they will be working hard to achieve the same goal as last year: reduced road use of 10 million miles across Europe and the UK.

Kingshott is very keen to open another construction consolidation centre this year. Hopefully this would see the same success as Greenford, the company’s West London site which is currently working on a fourth large scale building project.

The Department for Transport has suggested that there could be as many as eight congestion charging zones in the UK by 2010. Kingshott adds that, as a result of this, Wincanton intends to trial and employ more overnight deliveries to avoid potential charges, as may other companies. This could lead to an increase in LGV / HGV driving during the night, which may even ease some of the congestion during the day.