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With fuel prices escalating like never before, times are increasingly harder for small courier companies. The cost of maintaining a fleet of vehicles, large and small, is becoming a huge daily burden for many, but help may just be at hand to help defray some of the daily running costs, thanks to The Pod Father, the UK's first pay-as-you-go tariff and the most integrated Proof of Delivery (PoD) system on the market.

Neil Williams Haulage - Case Study

With a growing construction services business to manage, Mark Williams, Managing Director of Midlothian-based Neil Williams Haulage (NWH), had to contend with a mountain of logistics issues across the company's 55-strong truck fleet. Now, after trialling a pioneering Proof of Delivery system, named The POD Father, time and cost savings have had a remarkable impact on shoring up the company logistics.