In April, Urgent Couriers (Auckland, New Zealand) bought out rival freight business Inter City Urgent to enable its move from small cars into trucking.
Urgent, a former Courier Magazine Success Story (July-August 2010), owns nearly a quarter of Auckland's fast delivery market and company representative expect the purchase to increase business by 40 percent over the next year.
Founder Steve Bonnici expects some growing pains as Urgent develops its trucking sector and goes from 17 to 21 full-time employees and from 65 to 90 contractors.
"We are coming to grips with the fact that trucks don't move around anywhere near as quickly. The size of the vehicles dictates where you can send them,” Bonnici told reporters. “They are not as nimble as a courier vehicle.”
Bonnici explained how standard business—including document delivery—has declined with the implementation of better email technology.
"We've moved significantly into parcels and this is just another step, providing cross-town pallets at a reasonably quick pace,” he said.
Known as New Zealand’s only carbon-neutral courier company, Urgent is still committed to its “green” plan even after taking on a fleet of vans and trucks.
"We are coming to grips with what trucks will work for us long term. Ultimately we will maintain our carbon neutral status, it just will mean that our carbon footprint will be a bit larger," Bonnici said.
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