Neil Trotter

Transport Operations Director

Key Responsibilities

Neil oversees fleet operations for the company’s 127 vehicles and 250 curtain-sided trailers.

His responsibilities include driver recruitment and compliance, fleet compliance, VOSA OCRS scores, engaging in return load activity to increase revenue per mile, managing short lead time requirements, selecting and managing sub-contractors to assist with peak demand planning, and overseeing our Palletline services.

As well as day-to-day transport operations, Neil also manages a number of key customer relationships.

Career Background

Neil joined the company as Transport Operations Director in 2018 following a long and successful career with logistics company Gist. During his Logistics with Business Degree studies at Northumbria University, Neil spent a year with Gist to gain industry experience and was subsequently offered a place on the company’s Graduate Training Programme. His eleven-year career with the company encompassed a number of roles across the business and before joining us he held roles as Performance Manager – Transport, and General Manager of Gist’s base in Stone, Staffordshire.

Away from work

Cycling, walking, supporting Huddersfield Town AFC, trucks (of course!) and ferrying his children around!

What our customers say

“Boughey are a great partner for us to work with. They are innovative, friendly, honest and most importantly understand our business. We are keen to continue working and growing with Boughey in a long-term partnership for the future. We feel they listen to us and work together collaboratively to achieve a greater goal. Big thank you to the whole team.”

“We partnered with Boughey 2 years ago and they have provided us a first-class service from day 1. The day to day running, we have a fantastic resource in customer services who is very knowledgeable, a problem solver and even with her workload her response time is great. We have direct access to Senior Management as well which is great. It is great to see when we experience issues they always carry out root cause and then implement a corrective action to ensure it doesn’t happen again - they learn from their mistakes which is a great trait.”

“Boughey are extremely professional, with great processes and will always try to be flexible to support our needs. All team members are very knowledgeable, great communicators and know their customers very well. An excellent business partner for us.”

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Boughey Distribution Ltd
Wardle, Nantwich
Cheshire, CW5 6RS

Tel: 01829 260704