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Huddersfield Daily Examiner - 9 Nov 06

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CLEANING UP TRUCKERS' ACT

Wash station at Hartshead.  A TV entrepreneur is aiming to get dirty truckers to clean up their act with a new business in our region. 

Gary Taylor, who faced down a panel of millionaires on BBC Two's Dragons' Den, has launched Truck Wash Stations at Hartshead Moor Services on the M62.

The Hartshead Moor site is the second to go live in Gary's planned drive to spread the service across the motorway network - with the first up and running at Stafford South services.

Gary was offered cash by four of the five Dragons on the TV show, but as he launched his business and saw it take off, he knocked back their financial advances.

His company, Alpine Cleaning, has already signed agreements with major service station operators RoadChef and Welcome Break to be the sole provider of truck washing facilities at their stations.

Gary said:  "The service isn't just a novelty.  Keeping trucks and trailers clean is very often a contractual requirement for many haulage companies, but until now it wasn't an easy thing to do because of a lack of opportunity.

"We are delighted to be opening at Hartshead Moor - one of the busiest service stations on the motorway network.

"Stafford South has completely out-stripped my expectations and I feel sure Hartshead Moor will be just as successful.

"It is a very excting stage of the business's development."

By Andrew Jackson