Stussy:
We run 3 trucks on a long distance trunk every night, which is too far to go and fit into a 9 hour shift.
We can do it on a 10, but obviously only two nights a week.They tried a mid way trailer swap but it was too expensive, as we run 5 trucks a day with it occasionally being 6.
We’re in exactly the same situation trunking Scottish loads up to Bellshill from Howden. It’s what we’re having to do with Scottish loads and we’re sending up as many as fourteen loads at the moment. Depending on how far the changeover is from the final destination you could do it with only half as many coming down to the trailer swap so you’d not need 12 lorries in total to do the 6 loads, you’d only need 9.
Here’s how we do it. So say there’s 8 loads to go up. Final destination for the loads is a subbies depot at Bellshill. There’ll be four lorries going from Howden to the changeover near Lockerbie to arrive around 8pm. Four lorries will come down from Bellshill, do the changeover. They then go back to Bellshill, pick up four more trailers, head back down to the changeover point to meet a second set of lorries that set off from Howden four hours later and arrive around midnight. Works like a charm. We get there, take 45, drive back. Bellshill drivers can come down, do first changeover, go back to Bellshill, trailer swap and get back to second changeover and then take their 45 at the same time as the drivers on the second run from Howden.