Roger Petch Transport Limited, a Yorkshire-based haulage contractor, appointed liquidators earlier this month after around 15 years in business. According to Companies House, the company is now in liquidation and was registered for freight transport by road and other transport support activities.
The London Gazette notice confirms that Michael Jenkins and David Adam Broadbent of BTG Begbies Traynor were appointed as liquidators on 9 April 2026. The notice describes the business as a haulage contractor and states that the liquidation is a creditors’ voluntary liquidation.
Roger Petch Transport was incorporated in August 2010, but the company’s own website says the business was established in 2006 with one vehicle as an owner-driver operation before building up its fleet to meet customer demand.
The company described itself as being based in Sykehouse and Great Heck, East Yorkshire, close to Junction 6 of the M18 and Junction 34 of the M62. It specialised in bulk tipper work, carrying materials including sand, stone, gypsum, plastic pellets, ash, coal and biomass. Its website also referred to low loader, tautliner and rigid and articulated bulk tipper work.
The collapse comes against a difficult backdrop for UK road freight operators. The Road Haulage Association said in January that road freight insolvencies remained “far too high” and above pre-pandemic levels, with approaching 400 hauliers going out of business last year, compared with 470 the year before and more than 500 in 2023.
The RHA has also warned that the total cost of operating an HGV has risen by 6% over the past year, following a 10% increase in 2023-24. It said many operators were running at a loss as higher costs wiped out margins, and cited 469 UK haulier insolvencies in 2024, 60% above pre-Covid levels.
The case is another example of the strain on smaller and family-run road transport businesses, particularly those exposed to fuel, labour, maintenance, finance and compliance costs while competing in a market where rate increases are often hard to pass on.
Roger Petch Transport’s website remained online at the time of writing, still describing the company as a haulage contractor and listing Roger Petch as managing director and Charly Petch as transport manager.
