Case Studies

Improving Safety with the FORS Gold accreditation

  Rai Haulage is a subcontractor to Aggregate Industries, based in Purfleet, Essex. Rai Haulage primarily transports asphalt and aggregate throughout London and surrounding counties. Thanminder Rai, Transport Manager explains how Rai Haulage has used FORS to make many improvements, specifically in fuel consumption and cycle safety. ‘I initially came across FORS as a contractual … Read more

Delivering safe and efficient infrastructure: FORS and Tideway

The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a multi-billion pound nationally significant infrastructure project, building a new super sewer for London to ease the pressure on the capital’s current Victorian sewer system. Tideway specifies that all of its road transport contractors must be FORS accredited. The project seeks to ‘Reconnect London with the River Thames’ using the … Read more

Akkaal Transport Ltd – Going for Gold

Akkaal Transport Ltd is a sub-contractor for MPQ Industries, which was first established in 2017. Akkaal Transport Ltd’s main activity is transporting asphalt and aggregate materials to customers through the means of efficient and safe practices. Since joining the FORS scheme, the company has further improved on the overall efficiency of their procedures with the … Read more

Lightwood Plc – Going for Gold

Section 1 – Introduction Established in 1997, Lightwood Plc is based in North Weald in Essex, our primary service being warehousing. In 2004 we decided to operate our own vehicles to help distribute our customers products throughout the UK. Fane Cummings is our Transport Manager and has been with the company since 2005. Since becoming … Read more