Clarke Transport

Quality Haulage, Storage & Commercial Vehicle Servicing

Tel 01455 552 801 info@clarke-transport.co.uk
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History

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Clarke Transport is a family run business established in 1945.  We specialise in Road Haulage, Storage and Commercial Vehicle Servicing. We guarantee a professional and reliable service plus a flexibility that is hard to find elsewhere in the haulage and storage industry.

We are ideally situated for many regional distribution centres and warehouses, located just off Junction 21 of the M1 and Junction 1 of the M6, within 2 miles of Magna Park - Britain’s first, and Europe’s largest dedicated retail and wholesale distribution park. 

DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal), the UK's premier road and rail and distribution hub is also within easy reach of our doorstep along with road links to the M42, A5 and A14.  

We are registered members of the Road Haulage Association and all goods are stored and carried by the RHA Conditions of Storage / Carriage 1998.
H. Clarke & Sons (Carriers) Ltd was Formed in May 1945 when Harry Clarke bought a removals business complete with one vehicle.

Along with his sons Malcolm and Roy, they operated from a site on Bitteswell Road in Lutterworth where the business remained until 1999.

Malcolm Clarke later took over the haulage business and began to develop new ideas for the bodybuilding side of the business, forming Clarke Translift Ltd which is still trading today under the name of Clarke Transport.

One of the most ambitious and ingenious designs was the Transfer Body System. This was the first demountable commercial body and was patented by H Clarke & Sons (Carriers) Ltd.  It was designed to be distributed to the bodybuilding and commercial vehicle trade as a kit of ready assembled units to be incorporated directly into customers own chassis or body designs with both hydraulic and pneumatic models available.

Another successful and innovative product which Malcolm designed and manufactured was the Cabbie bunk bed. (Pic 4) This was a retractable bunk which was fitted into a non-sleeper cab to provide sleeping accommodation.  These were fitted on site in Lutterworth, and in excess of 400 were fitted in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

Other designs developed by Malcolm Clarke are:

CT Airflip – An air deflector designed to streamline differing load
heights.

Tyreroll – A device which allows re-cutting tyres on the wheel whilst
holding the tyre in one place

ChocBlock – A device designed  to stop pallet trucks rolling about whilst being carried in the back of vehicles


Malcolm also spent 2 years successfully campaigning the Ministry of Transport for a change in transport law. His expertise and perseverance was rewarded when the new law permitted 16T drawbar trailers to operate at 16 tonnes drawn by 16 tonnes 4 wheel rigid vehicles.

In 1999 the company moved premises to our current site at Bilton Way, Lutterworth, which houses our purpose-built warehouse and office complex. 

The warehousing side of the business soon expanded mainly due to the prime location of the site adjacent to the Magna Park distribution centre and DIRFT.  A sister company, Clarke Properties was formed and adjacent land purchased in 2001 by the new property company to develop a custom built warehouse which more than double the previously existing storage capacity and also provided high quality office accommodation to let.

Malcolm’s two children since joined the company and in October 2005 were made Joint Managing Director's of both Clarke Transport and Clarke Properties Limited.