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June 2025 NewsBrief

With Summer upon us we bring news of the fundraising cycle ride two of our employees are doing to raise money for Mind - our Charity of the Year, the link between milk tankers and blackcurrants, and why some of our HGVs have taken part in their own photoshoot!

April 2025 NewsBrief

For our Spring edition you'll discover a past, present, and future interview with John Gregory as we mark his 40th work anniversary, an introduction to the John Mitchell team (the latest business to join the Gregory Group family), an update on the EV infrastructure currently being installed, and details of how one of our team has used their volunteer day.

The history of Operator licences - knowing you’re A, B, C

An O licence, or Operator’s licence, gives us permission to operate goods vehicles in Great Britain. But, once upon a time, O licences didn’t exist and instead, hauliers had to know their A, B, C!

An ode to Jimmy Coulthard

Back in 1949, the second generation in the Coulthard family received a poem written in his honour.

December 2024 NewsBrief

Read the final NewsBrief edition of 2024 to discover our latest contract wins, what it means to be part of a net-zero HGV consortium, and details of a couple of awards we’ve won recently.

It's all in a name

If you are an eagle-eyed truck enthusiast, you will have noted that our Hayton Coulthard and Pollock vehicles all have individual names. This has been a long-held tradition, so when Pollock recently welcomed “Simply the Best”, “Doddie’s Legacy”, “Golden Girl”, “Rapid Reiver” and “Flying Scotsman” to the fleet, we explored the process behind the naming conventions. It is a story of passion and paths aligning.