Tooles joins TPN as replacement Palletways member goes under

Tooles Transport has joined The Pallet Network (TPN), at the same time as its replacement at Palletways, DY Pallets Logistics has appointed liquidators.

Droitwich-based Tooles Transport will cover deliveries in Gloucester and Worcestershire for TPN, with effect from 10 January. The firm finished its 10-year partnership with Palletways in September last year, handing over the same postcodes to new member DY Pallets Logistics, which joined from Fortec.

However, Dudley-based DY Pallets Logistics appointed Brian Hamblin and Ian Gould of PFK (UK) as joint liquidators to the business on 5 January, leaving Palletways with no fixed member for the Gloucester and Worcestershire deliveries.

Tooles Transport will continue to help distribute outbound Palletways freight until a permanent replacement is found, according to company MD John Tool.

A spokeswoman for Palletways says other existing members have also stepped in to deliver to the affected postcodes.

Toole says: "We have had a good decade working with Palletways, but we felt TPN's ethos and future plans fitted better with our current business model."