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Client: TIP Traiter Services
Date:Publication:'Commercial Motor'
June 15th 2017
SHOW REPORT
TIP shows extensive range
By Steve Hobson wanting to buy or rent any type WTS employs 40 staff, of the full range of road tankers."
of tanker". which 28 are fitters, at its site in TIP's stand featured an LAG
TIP TANKER Services and Morley, which includes a 17-bay
Williams Tanker Services (WTS) "We never touched fuel or workshop. aluminium tipping powder
used the show to highlight its full gas tankers before we bought tanker (pictured). lt has a rental
range of tankers, including fuel Williams," he said. "TlP wanted "Williams is a great family fleet of 100 fuel tankers, as well
and gas tanks, for rent and to move into the market and that business and we want to keep as building and selling LAG
contract hire. is why we went for a successful, that ethos, but make it work tankers to customers' exact
well-known business. lt has smarter," said Hughes. "We can requirements. The rental tankers
This year's Tank-ex was the been a game-changer for us." sell, rent, refurbish and maintain will also bre for sale, avoiding the
first since TIP acquired Morley, six months lead time to get one
Leeds-based WTS in August built to order,
2016. WTS will remain as an
independent business for the Since TIP was acquired from
foreseeable future and will GE Capital by Chinese
continue to be the UK distributor
for Belgian tanker builder LAG .
which, like TlP, is now Chinese-
owned. automotive group HNA in 2013
it has been aggressively
TIP business development expanding, buying the fuel
manager Peter Hughes said the tanker rental business Haartz
acquisition had made TIP a Tankers in April last year, which
"one-stop shop for operators added 150 tankers to the rental
fleet, and buying another 500
new tanks of all types including
food and chemicals.
