TRANSLINE Vehicle Hire, part of the Northgate Vehicle Hire network, is celebrating 21 years in vehicle rental.

The firm is part of three Northgate-owned firms in the Tyneside area, with a combined fleet of nearly 3,000 vehicles. Transline has a fleet of 800 vehicles. Northgate was named as the largest rental firm in the country in this year's Fleet News Rental 20 and recently celebrated reaching a fleet size of 40,000 vehicles.