Aspray Transport to hire more HGV / LGV drivers

It has been announced that Aspray Transport has made a £2m investment in its fleet, having recently won a series of new contracts.

The investment follows two years of stagnation, but following a period of growth, the transport company, which is based in Willenhall in the West Midlands, has received 30 DAF trucks and is expecting a further 20 at the end of next month. The company will also be taking on around 60 new employees – primarily HGV / LGV drivers.

The managing director of Aspray Transport, Stuart Laight, said:

“We have always maintained a good cash flow, but we are in a particularly strong position entering 2010. In 2008, we concentrated on cost savings by improving our fuel efficiency and a number of people were made redundant, while last year, everybody across the board agreed to a pay cut instead of any more job losses.”

Laight went on to say that pay was returned the original rate at the start of the year due to improved finances following streamlining. Since then, new contracts have come in with more in the offing. A three-year contract involving 4,000 consignments a day was recently signed as well as a two-year contract with Avocet Hardware.