Press Releases

TIP’s charity fundraising cycling team, ‘The Fat Bottomed Boys & Girls’ is taking to the roads once again on 7th June, aiming to raise more than £70,000 for Staffordshire-based hospice, Dougie Mac.

TIP Group will make its debut at this year’s ITT Hub, showcasing its range of trailer and truck, rental, leasing and maintenance & repair services.

TIP has launched ‘Earned Recognition by TIP’, a brand-new service to support those transport operators who are interested in attaining ‘exemplar’ status through the DVSA Earned Recognition Scheme.

At the beginning of May, TIP’s ‘FBB&G’ cycling team successfully completed its ‘Monte Carlo or Bust’ bike ride across the South of France and this year’s charity challenge has currently raised nearly £60,000, almost double the planned fundraising target for the three-day event.

At the beginning of May 2022, TIP’s ‘FBB&G’ cycling team are taking on a tough bike ride across the South of France. This year’s charity challenge starts near Marseille with an anticipated finish three days later in the municipality of Monaco.

TIP Trailer Services, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital and one of the leading trailer leasing, rental, maintenance and repair providers across Europe and Canada, today signed a deal to acquire the trailer leasing and maintenance business of Ryder Ltd.

TIP, along with associate businesses Grayrentals and Eurotrail, will return to the Commercial Vehicle Show in May after a two-year absence.

As part of a partnership that began five years ago, TIP Trailer Services is supplying 36 new SDC curtainsided trailers to Expect Distribution in Bradford.

TIP Trailer Services has announced that its ‘Fat Bottomed Boys and Girls’ (FBB&G) 2021 Balearic Charity Bike Ride has now raised over £70,000 for the two charities nominated, breaking the previous record set by the TIP team on their previous charity bike ride in 2019.

As part of its global expansion programme, TIP Trailer Services has announced its latest acquisition in the UK, following the purchase of Steers Group Limited, and its wholly owned subsidiary Eurotrail UK Ltd, for an undisclosed sum.

As part of its ongoing staff development programme, TIP Trailer Services is expanding its current UK apprenticeship scheme with a further intake of seven new students in 2021.

Following the cancellation of last year’s annual charity bike ride due to the pandemic, the ‘Fat Bottomed Boys and Girls’ (FBB&G) are getting back in the saddle at the end of this month taking on their 8th annual charity cycle challenge. This year, the intrepid team of riders are completing a testing three day event around the Balearic island of Majorca.

East Lancashire haulier Earl Transport has continued its long association with TIP Trailer Services with the recent arrival of 14 new SDC 4.2m curtain sided trailers that have been supplied by TIP on a five year leasing arrangement, which also includes full repair and maintenance cover for the duration of the deal.

Greencarrier Freight Services has once again expanded its trailer fleet with the addition of 15 Profi Liner curtainsiders from Krone Trailers UK, on long term lease from TIP Trailer Services.