Thomas Hardie Commercials Ltd is one of England's biggest haulage companies of commercial trucks, buses and coaches. The company was founded in 1985, it came from a former truck company under the name of "Lancashire Trucks", which was owned and controlled by Rylands under the Midlands Motor Group shareholding company. It consisted of one depot based in Knowsley. UK locations Thomas Hardie Commercials currently operates out of five towns in England: * Liverpool * Preston * Trafford Park * Deeside * Middlewich In addition, "Thomas Hardie Engineering" is located at Chorley and the Used Sales Centre is based at Middlewich. Statistics Thomas Hardie Commercials Ltd employs about 600 people throughout the UK, with a turnover of £85 million.