The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

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Australia
Mainfreight Distribution – Rodd Morgan
At the end of what has turned out to be a
particularly challenging year, we would really like
to say thank you to our fantastic hard-working
branch teams and our owner drivers all around
Australia. We can all enjoy Christmas content in
the knowledge that we have another very exciting
year of achievement behind us – all made possible
only due to the talents and professionalism of
each and every Mainfreight team member who
make us what we are today.
The past year has definitely been one of two
contrasting halves for Mainfreight Distribution,
with trading conditions being a little flatter than we
would have liked during the first part of the year
but with our momentum being markedly better of
recent times.
We have now restored our revenue and profit
performances from a year-to-date perspective so
that we are again well placed to achieve our full
year profit targets and to see further improvement
throughout next year.
The team remains focused on the “simple but not
easy” task of delivering 100% of our customers’
freight on time and intact, which is the only way
we will maintain our healthy rate of growth into
next year and beyond.
Our on-time delivery task has been that little bit
harder this year as the scourge of late linehaul
departures and arrivals has again raised its ugly
head. Too many times this year we have had units
arriving into depots late in the morning which
makes delivering freight that little bit harder and
more costly. Part of the problem has been our
Sydney branch which has had to operate in a
facility that we have outgrown making truck flows
very slow, and combined with Sydney’s notorious
traffic and some late customer pick ups we have
really struggled to get units away on time.
However, the very good news is that this will
soon be a thing of the past as we move into a
magnificent new purpose-built facility in February
next year.
It’s a long way from the end of the dock to the offices at the Sydney Super-site!