It’s a bit tough in the haulage industry at present –putting it mildly! According to the Freight Transport Association, between 2019 and 2022 no fewer than 1167 road haulage businesses, many of them long-established family firms, and some whose names will be very familiar to most lorry enthusiasts, have become insolvent, with 417 of those (40%) having happened in 2022.
2023 has, if anything, been even worse. In September alone we lost Lloyd Fraser, one of the UK’s largest specialist
