News Archive: November 2016

John Miller Limited where awarded with Scotlands top Trailer Fleet 2017 at the Transport News Scottish Rewards ceremony in Glasgow on 4th November 2017.

Due to expansion John Miller have purchased 20 new flat bed trailers from Dennison Trailers, Lancaster. The 13.5 metre trailers all come equip with wide load marker boards and beacons ready for carrying regular wide loads, along with timber pins to be used for logs and side protection.

John Miller have recently purchased 5 new Crossland ADR General Purpouse Chemical tankers. The single pot 35,000ltr trailers will be put to use collecting and delivering waste products for renewable energy and delivering fuels to commercial sites nationwide.

4 new LAG Fuel Tankers enter the fleet in our customers “Argent Energy” livery. The 6 pot 42,000ltr trailers will be delivering diesel for our customer UK nationwide. Trailers supplied by Williams Tankers, Leeds.

Click below to watch the latest industry video from CONFOR promoting Forestry, featuring John Miller Limited.

CONFOR ‘Our Forest, Our People’

John Miller Limited has been assessed and has met the bronze level requirements of the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS).

In September, the extension to our timber depot at Castle Douglas was completed with the opening of a purpose built workshop for the servicing and maintenance of our ever growing timber fleet. The workshop is being operated by Mike Mosley.

Due to increasing demand an additional twenty vehicles joined the John Miller Limited fleet on 1st September. This includes six Mercedes Actros Long Space vehicles with ultra light cabs and dolly wheels for a major fuel distribution client based at our Ellesmere Port depot. also, ten new Mercedes Actros Big Space vehicles for our general haulage fleet working out of Lockerbie, Stoke on Trent and Coatbridge.  A new Mercedes Arocs wagon and drag combination and three Scania G440 tractor units join our Timber division, equipped with Bigfoot CTI systems.