About the company
One truck in 1987. Sixty on the road today.
Still a family firm
Ray Haddon started the company with one second-hand flatbed and a contract to carry floor tiles from Coalville to Birmingham. His daughter Claire runs it now, from the same yard off the M1 at junction 21.
We grew by taking on the work our customers asked for next: storage when a tile maker ran out of room, chilled trailers for a bakery, a Northampton depot for the online shops along the A45. We have never bought another haulier, and every truck is ours.
The fleet
In numbers, 2026
- 60
- trucks: 36 tractor units and 24 rigids from 7.5 to 26 tonnes
- 92
- trailers, twelve of them refrigerated and eight skeletal for containers
- 3.4 yrs
- average age of a truck, every one of them Euro VI
- 112
- drivers on our own payroll, none from an agency
- 3
- depots, each with its own workshop and fuel
- 4.1m
- miles driven last year, 92 percent of them loaded
Depots
Three sites within forty minutes of each other on the M1 and the A50.
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Head office
Leicester
Unit 4, Meridian Way
Leicester LE19 1WX- Pallet spaces
- 9,000
- Dock doors
- 16
- Open
- 24 hours
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Chilled store
Derby
Raynesway Park, Unit 12
Derby DE21 7BE- Pallet spaces
- 5,000, 800 chilled
- Dock doors
- 8
- Open
- Mon–Sat, 05:00–22:00
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Cross-dock
Northampton
Brackmills Industrial Estate, Unit 7
Northampton NN4 7PB- Pallet spaces
- 4,000
- Dock doors
- 10
- Open
- Mon–Fri, 05:00–22:00
Drivers
The same driver on your route, most weeks of the year.
Our drivers have been with us for nine years on average. They work fixed routes on a four-day week, are home every night on regional work, and take 35 hours of training a year on top of their Driver CPC.
Drive for usSafety and certificates
Audited every year by the bodies that issue them. Copies go to any customer who asks.
- FORS GoldFleet operator standard, held since 2016
- DVSA Earned RecognitionOur maintenance and drivers’ hours records are shared with the regulator every four weeks
- BRCGS StorageGrade AA for chilled and ambient food at Derby
- ISO 9001 and 14001Quality and environmental management, all three depots
- RHA memberLoads carried under the RHA Conditions of Carriage, insured to £50,000 each
Some of our customers
- Harbury FoodsChilled ready meals to supermarket depotsSince 2009
- Norland TilesStored at Leicester, delivered to builders’ merchantsSince 1991
- Oakfield BrewingKegs and cases to pubs across five countiesSince 2014
- Tamar HomePicked and packed online orders from NorthamptonSince 2020