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Transport Is An Overhead, So It Needs To Happen Seamlessly

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At SSO Logistics we fully understand that what we do is an overhead for every one of our customers. Transportation and logistics services are something that a huge number of businesses need and have to pay for, so it is understandable that our customers want to pay as little as possible and still get their goods to wherever they want them on time and with no fuss. What we do should operate in the background like a well-oiled machine, and we work tirelessly to ensure that our customers get just that. You don’t want to know how we do it, just as long as it gets done.

What’s more, you don’t want to hear a list of excuses as to why it didn’t get done. Have you ever heard the excuse “The agency driver didn’t turn up for work”? Yes, that happens to us sometimes too. Which is why we have five of our office staff trained to HGV standard so that when things go wrong, we can handle them. That’s why you won’t hear that excuse from us: in fact, you’ll never know it happened. That’s what we mean by working like a well-oiled machine in the background.

We have a very large and ever-growing fleet to ensure that we have the right size of van for every job. This is because we want to provide the best possible service while at the same time reducing our carbon footprint to the minimum. If you need just a few pallets delivered, you don’t need something which can carry 26 pallets. That’s wasted space, wasted fuel, and would cost you more than it should.

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Looking For Safe and Efficient Shipment Method? Time to Get a Pallet Delivery Quote

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There’s no doubt that logistics presents the biggest challenge for any business organisation. In the UK, the high cost of manufacturing, coupled with geopolitical issues, has made running a business difficult. As a business owner, you also have to consider the safety of your items when in freight.


All these factors necessitate an innovative solution. This is where palletisation comes into play. Using a palletised distributor is the best way to get your shipments across the UK and the world.


Basics of Palletisation
A pallet is a flat transport structure which holds goods while being lifted by a forklift. It has become a popular solution for the transportation of large items.  Straps or shrink wrap are necessary to secure the items on a pallet.  Once in position on a pallet, your goods can safely travel across the world.


Whatever the size of your cargo, your logistics firm will provide a pallet delivery quote depending on your shipping needs.

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Unlock Your Company’s Potential Using a Business Warehouse Solutions Provider

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For a business involved in manufacturing and distribution of goods, it is imperative to have the best storage solution. Traditionally, large manufacturers had to build or lease warehousing space to run their operations. Today, the concept of outsourcing has changed all this. Third-party logistics (3PL) companies now provide seamless warehousing solutions allowing you to focus on the core business.


How Warehouse Solutions Work
In the past, businesses had to manage all aspects of operations from the factory, storage to the distribution. A third party logistics provider helps out by providing all your warehousing needs. You don’t have to worry about the storage of your goods before distribution anymore.


The best business warehouse solutions provider received your containers, de-vans, palletises, stores, and distribute them. They have invested in highly trained personnel and the latest warehousing technology to streamline these processes.

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How Can Third Party Logistics Services Help Your UK Business?

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What Are Third Party Logistics (3PL)?
For many years, businesses across the world handled the entire supply chain under one roof. This meant capital injection for entire operations. From manufacturing, marketing, to distribution, small businesses had to do it all.


With new theories and business models, the idea of outsourcing started growing. This is where third-party logistics comes in handy.  A third party logistics company offers its expertise and resources for advanced logistics and management.


The best third-party logistics providers in the UK offer a comprehensive range of services to sort logistics in the supply chain. These services range from:

  • Product transportation
  • Warehousing
  • Inventory management
  • picking and packing
  • order fulfilment
  • Packaging
  • Freight forwarding.
  • Freight audit and consulting
  • Shipment tracking and tracing

This means you can focus on the core business as the third party logistics company handles all the logistics in your supply chain.

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What You Need To Know About Licenced Waste Carriers

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Fly-tipping in the UK is a huge problem, as anybody who has seen large amounts of waste dumped down country lanes will know. This is why the government has, quite rightly in the view of most people, made it a criminal offence. That doesn’t prevent a lot of cowboys from continuing to do it and destroying swathes of our beautiful countryside. However, they are not, in most instances, interested in our countryside, but simply how much profit that they can make. After all, if they remove your waste and you pay them in cash it is 100% profit. What’s more, they are hardly likely to declare it to the tax man!

This is why, if you are a homeowner, businessman, or anyone else who needs to dispose of waste, should ensure that any business that you call to remove waste is a licenced waste carrier. We all need waste removed occasionally in our lives, but if and when you do, you should ask them for their waste carrier’s licence number. This applies to any sort of contractors such as builders, landscape gardeners, tree fellers, house clearance companies, furniture retailers, carpet fitters, scrap metal merchants, skip hire companies, and so on.

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The Many Curious Online Searches For things “Near Me”

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Today, more than ever, people go online and search for things “near me”. So for instance, they may search for something such as “warehouse logistics near me”. Quite why this is so is a bit of a mystery.

Certainly, if you need a dentist you might search for “dentist near me” based on the assumption that Google knows where you are. (Just so you know, Google does know where you are, and not only that knows how many children you have and what you are cooking for dinner).

But leaving that aside for the moment, yes, if you need a dentist you want one that is near you because you have to go to the dentist. So, obviously, you don’t want to have to travel to the other side of the country. That makes perfect sense.

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Warehousing and Logistics: You Don’t Need Excuses

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At SSO Logistics we fully understand that what we do is simply a necessary evil for your business. Necessary, in the sense that you simply cannot do without having your goods transported from one place to another, and evil in the sense that – yes – we are an overhead.

It is for that reason that we have always recognised that what we do should be in the background. It should just “happen”. The very last things that you need from warehousing and distribution companies are excuses. You really do not want to know that the reason your goods did not arrive at the destination at the time you were told they would is because an agency driver didn’t turn up.

You were told that “xyz transport company” would always do what you need and get your pallets where they need to be on time. What you don’t want to hear is a long list of excuses as to why that didn’t happen. We understand that if things don’t arrive on time it can cost you money – a lot of money.

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SSO Logistics -Every Possible Pallet Transport Service You Need

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At SSO Logistics we are a member of the United Pallet Network (UPN) which enables us to provide you with overnight pallet transport services to anywhere in the UK. This is the ideal solution for customers who need to get a small consignment to it’s destination in a short space of time. At our St Helens depot in Merseyside, we are very convenient for the port of Liverpool and we are constantly planning the most economic route for your freight, whether that is on our own vehicles or the UPN network.

Let’s face it: we know what you want. All that concerns you is getting your pallet or pallets to your customers or your business at the right time and in perfect condition. How that is achieved is not something that should worry you, and you are quite right. You have other things to think about when running your business, so pallet transport is OUR problem, not yours.

We work around you, our customer, not the other way around. That means that if you need a pallet collected from anywhere in the UK with materials that you need for production tomorrow, we will collect it, or have it collected, by 4.30 pm and it will be delivered to you the next day in most parts of the UK as long as we receive your order by 11.30 am. There are certain exceptions, such as the Scottish isles, but in most cases, it is no problem.

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Some Interesting Facts about the Pallet Industry

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Pallet transport is on the increase in the UK. It is, of course, one of the most effective methods of moving goods, and figures for 2016, which are the latest available, showed that the construction industry took around 32% of all new wood pallets manufactured that year. The estimated number of new pallets manufactured was 42.5 million, while 41.4 million were repaired. The average cost of a new pallet was £6.31. These figures are from the Timber Packaging & Pallet Confederation (TIMCON).

TIMCON also said that apart from the construction industry, other big users were Distributors with 18%, FMCG’s with 14%, Chemicals (12%), and the Engineering and Automotive Industries (11%). It was estimated that there are approximately 250 million pallets in use for pallet transport in the UK, which is far short of the US where the figure is 2.6 billion. TIMCON members are reported to have used 688,000 cubic metres of wood for pallets and packaging, of which 72% was home grown timber and 28% imported.

TIMCON members either employed directly, or indirectly in outsourced activities, 3,020 people at 128 locations throughout the UK, 43.7% of which related to new pallet production and 53.3% related to inspecting or repairing pallets. The other 3% went on packaging.

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Things to Consider When Hiring a Rigid Lorry

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Here is something many people wouldn’t know – even those in the freight haulage business: the word “lorry” comes from the Old English “lurry” and “to lurry” meant “to pull”. The word “van” was first recorded as being used in 1829 for a covered wagon used for transporting goods, and was a contraction of “caravan” which was first used in the 1670’s.

Of course, today there are different sorts of vans and also lorries from the rigid through articulated, and up to road trains. Which one you choose for any specific job will depend on the load that you need to transport and also your personal skills at driving. Driving a rigid is very similar to driving a car because there is no flexibility between the cab and the rest of the vehicle. It is just a lot larger than a car, so takes some getting used to.

If you only need occasional use of a lorry you can obtain rigid day hire from a number of different companies. Rigid day hire can cover a wide range of different vehicles depending on what you need to do. You might want a 3.5T GVW tipper, a 7.5T GVW drop-sided truck, a 3.5T GVW tail-lift Luton, a 7.5T GVE curtain-sider, a 12T GVW box van, or a larger one up to 26T GVW. There are other sizes and weights in between, too.

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