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right place at the right time to start a haulage business, Andrew Wheeler s pretty damn close to it at ybrooke, Leicestershire, in 1988.
With the country on the crest of a conuction wave, quarries seemingly within sy reach at all points of the compass, st distribution giants falling over themIves to build depots in nearby iterworih and with arable produce of his n to move at various times of the year, decision to add a haulage operation to family farming business was not a parlarly difficult one to reach.
The farm site itself was perfect: "We uld park all the vehicles in the yard, ich is on a main road, so we had no vironmental problems," he says. Behind wheel of his secondhand Volvo FL7 ht-wheeler, his bulk tipper operation s launched—one of many to join the UK ulage bandwagon at that time.