Employee Share Trust

Wincanton plc

The Company was notified on Friday, 16 March 2007 by the trustee of the
Wincanton plc Employee Share Trust that it had transferred, on that day, 13,967
Ordinary 10 pence shares out of Trust. The transfer was in respect of an
exercise by a participant of the Wincanton plc Approved and Unapproved
Executive Share Option Schemes 2001 who was classified as a good leaver under
the terms of the Scheme.

Following this transaction, the Trust holds 3,080,661 shares in the Company in
which PDMR's and the executive directors, Gerard Connell, Graeme McFaull and
Nigel Sullivan are deemed to be technically interested in under the Companies
Act. The transactions did not relate to any directors or PDMR's of the Company.

16 March 2007