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Lowey Transport FOUNDED: 1947: incorporated 1989 BASED: Cashel, Castieblaney, Co Monaghan CONTACT: Stanley Lowey, proprietor FLEET: 11 Scanias, including six 144s and four 143s: plus 10 refrigerated, 30 curtainsider and 30 flat trailers Buys new and used. Most recent acquisition: Two Scania 144s, 2000 SPECIALITY CONTRACT: General haulage Wit h roots going back to 1947. Lowey Transport is one of Ireland's longest established haulage companies. Set up by the present owner's parents as a single-truck business operating between Monaghan and Dublin.the company now employs 16 people. has a fleet of II trucks and 70 trailers, and delivers a wide range of goods throughout Ireland and the UK. Proprietor Stanley Lowey has been active in the business since the age of 12,when he started helping out on the trucks. Since getting his licence at 18 he's been involved on a full-time basis. The company is still very much a family business, with sons Trevor and Richard both driving, and wife Elizabeth working in operations.
Over the years Lowey Transport has built up strong and lasting relationships with a number of prestigious clients,one of whom has been a customer since the late 1970s. In addition to working all over Ireland and Britain, the company has recently started delivering to Paris at the request of one of its existing customers. Loads can include everything from fresh and frozen food to equipment for the construction inclustry"From our point of view, Lowey Transport's reliability and flexibility are a big advantage," says Andy Wylie of Monaghanbased Combilift,which manufactures a range of our-direction forklift trucks. Our business has o be fairly flexible and we find them very good Lt helping us to achieve this" The company's communications system s a key factor in ensuring this high level of .ervice.The team currently operates a total of landlines. mobile phones and in-cab track:rs. Outside normal office hours, be phones are diverted to Stanley _owey's mobile number, with the .esult that he's on call 24 hours a lay, seven days a week."Often the Alone can be ringing up until two in he morning and will start again at ix," says Lowey."Luckily Sunday s usually a Nt quieter!" One of the )ig investments in recent years has aeen the purchase and installation rf satellite tracking equipment in ix of the vehicles."We've had it for he past 15 months and are finding it telly useful," says Lowey.
The success of the business, he ;ays, has a lot to do with a very good Ind reliable team of drivers and ;taff back at base. However, finding iew drivers continues to be a big thallenge."Two of the lorries are sitting in the yard doing nothing because we don't have enough drivers." he explains.
Currently a council member, Lowey has been active in the 1RHA since the 1980s, when he was involved in recruiting fellow Monaghan hauliers to join up. He is a firm believer in the value of the association as a lobbying force and points out that it h; been instrumental in keeping down the price of diesel. "It's very important becE if they didn't have paid-up members tht wouldn't be in a position to negotiate w government departments and there woi be no end to the increases." he says. •