New member, looking for advice on firms looking for local day/night drivers in the Leeds/West Yorks areas. Ideally permanent work, not via agencies.
After weeks of problems, it finally all went down last night. Downton’s have acquired the balance of the magazine work, and have quickly opened a site in Gildersome to operate from. This would seem to have been the final nail in the coffin.
Bit of an extra kick in the teeth for us ex-Pawsons drivers who managed to stick it at Macs. Now owed money all over the place.
it sickens me that. all those drivers down the pan. longs of leeds and bedfords plus downtons will soak up most of the drivers.
mac’s didnt have too much history i think they were started in 1980 ish with a grant from prince charles or something similar … you know one of those new business grants or something.
living in rothwell south leeds i was always seeing mac’s most days.
its a very sad when a big haulier like them goes ■■■■ up. i know not the best place to work but good for the newbies to cut their teeth on.
if i remember they went bust and then got bought of the adminstors by someone to do with gagewell or something down in elland… or did he have the iveco franchese.
Macfarlane Transport Holdings
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.
I’d have thought so as they all have tracking devices on them. Probably a condition of the finance lease so the lender could find them all when macs went bump again…
Macfarlane Transport Holdings
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.
I posted on here last week that MacFarlanes may have gone bust and the moderator, maybe rightly, removed it. Apparently Stobbarts were about to sign the dotted line and take them over when they found out Macs had mysteriously “lost” a £12 million contract. The firm thats taken it over is closely linked to them. Its dubious business practices that cost peoples jobs and bankrupts subbies. I wonder if this will get past the moderator
