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By 1940 road transport was taking over and farmers built their own milk platforms on their farms. Ideally, platforms were built adjacent to the dairy. But many dairies were not on a road and those farmers were required to build a platform near their farm gate for ease of collection. Milk trucks collected the canned milk from the farm daily (twice per day during summer). Clean empty cans from the previous day were offloaded at the same time.

By the 1960s refrigeration had been introduced to the industry: refrigerated bulk milk vats and tankers thus reduced transport costs.

(Source: Geoff Norman, 2006)