STR Logistics goes under after 20 years

Exeter haulier and Palletways member STR Logistics has entered administration.

The company, which employs around 80 staff and holds an operator licence authorising 20 HGVs and 12 trailers running out of its Alphington base, appointed administrators from insolvency firm SFP on 31 January.

STR Logistics was incorporated over 20 years ago and provided transport and logistics services including two-man home deliveries, pallet distribution, trunking, secure freight handling and first/last mile operations. In November 2021, it joined Palletways and had taken on distribution services across the ‘English Riviera’, as well as Teignmouth and Newton Abbott. n Burton-on-the-Wolds haulier Eclipse Distribution Solutions collapsed because it failed to convince the traffic commissioners it had sufficient finances for its fleet size, resulting in the revocation of its licence, according to the administrator. The company ceased trading on 28 October 2022 with the loss of 41 jobs.