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Supports Needed For Young Truck Drivers
Truck driver Sophie Howard, from Quin, recently qualified to operate a double trailer rig. Photograph by Eugene McCafferty, Clare Champion. 2025-04-15
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Galway Summer Stages Rally 2024
The 50th edition of the Galway Summer Stages Rally rolled out on Sunday, 1st September 2024. The event sponsored by Bluebird Care, has been running since 1972. Depot 108 – Langan Couriers, based in Oranmore, County Galway, sent us dispatches on this year’s event. Galway crew, Jason Gorham & John Kilmartin, competed in a Langan Couriers – TPN liveried Honda…
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Archive 2014 : Quinn Transport – Depot 131
PRINCIPALDEPOTJOINED Tony Quinn131, Athlone, Co. Westmeath2009 Tony Quinn founded Quinn Transport in the early 1970s. Over the years he has specialised in different sectors and, at one stage he had fifteen refrigerated trucks carrying meat products to the continent. During the downturn he transported luxury cruisers from the River Shannon to the South of France…
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Archive 2014 : South East Freight – Depot 107
PRINCIPALDEPOTJOINED Andy Cowman107 – Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow2011 Andy Cowman bought a van in 1997 to do a daily run to Dublin for his local clients. He expanded, having thirty trucks doing general haulage at one stage during the boom. As the economy contracted, he moved into groupage and concentrated his work in the Carlow and…
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Archive 2014 : Store-All Logistics – Depot 105
PRINCIPALDEPOTJOINED Liam Dalton105, Belview Port Waterford2010 Store-All Logistics was established in 1993 by Liam Dalton, then managing director of FitzGerald Insurances (Waterford) Limited, and Eamonn McKenna, then proprietor of Waterford Hire Services Limited. When it began trading as a warehousing business its first two customers were Cow & Gate (now Danone) and Waterford Co-Op (now…
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Archive 2014 : Allen Logistics – Depot 129
PRINCIPALDEPOTJOINED James Allen129, Moira, Co. Down2009 The Down-based transport company was founded as William Allen and Sons in 1967 by Linden Allen. James Allen, Linden’s son and principal of Allen Logistics explained he family background: My grandfather was a sheep dealer who transported livestock in the 1950s. My father, Linden, wanted to transport Wavin pipes…
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Archive 2014 : Deering Transport – Depot 118
PRINCIPALDEPOTJOINED David Deering118 – Nurney, Co. Kildare2006 Founded by David Deering in the late 1970s with just one truck, Deering Transport built up its business moving heavy agricultural machinery. This has been and remains specialised work with complex logistics: a combine harvester, for example, is 3.6 metres wide and requires complicated permits to move in…
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Archive 2014 : Eoin Gavin Transport – Depot 130
PRINCIPALDEPOTJOINED Eoin Gavin130 – Bunratty, Co. Clare.2008 Eoin Gavin’s father, Terry, and his uncles were involved in the haulage business since the 1950s. In 1998, after studying business and marketing at the University of Limerick, and doing a stint for Shannon Transport, Eoin was keen to expand the family business. His father thought it too…
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Archive 2014 : Abhann Logistics – Depot 111
PrincipalDepotJoined Mike Hogan111 – Raheen, Limerick2008 Mike Hogan has worked in transport most of his life and enjoys the challenge. He got his truck licence at just seventeen years old and worked for Hickey Group, initially as a driver and then as transport manager. After seven or so years with the company, he bought his…
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Archive 2014 : K & L Deliveries – Depot 127
PrincipalDepotJoined Gordon O’Keefe127 – Millstreet, Co Cork2008 Gordon O’Keefe began in the haulage industry in 1986 with two Hi-Ace vans and a smalltruck. With his business partner, John Lucey, he transported goods to Dublin from Kerry, Cork and Limerick. He bought Lucey out in 1991. Although the company expanded using the original business model, Gordon…
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