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Farewell to a veteran Scottish haulier
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JIMMYYUTLI one of Scotland's best known hauliers, has died aged 72.
Yuill was responsible for setting up highly regarded Hamilton bulk haulier Yuill & Dodds 53 years ago.
The firm was initially run with his business partner Matt Dodds;Yuill bought out Dodd's share in 1983.
The firm hit the headlines when it supplied the Ravenscraig steel works near Motherwell with coke during the 1984-85 miners' strike.
His son Brian,who now runs the firm, points out that the firm had held a contract with British Steel which then ran the Ravenscraig plant since 1976: We were only looking after a contract we'd had for the past eight years. We ended up running 24 hours per day and lots of our trucks were getting vandalised and smashed up because of it," he adds. 'But it wasn't something that Jimmy ever regretted as to him it was a matter of principle. Although Jimmy had a bit of a reputation, his bark was always worse than his bite.
"He used to say to me that people came to Yuill & Dodds for an education in the university of life."
Jimmy Yuill's friend Jim Macauley, who runs Cadzow Heavy Haulage, says: "It's a great personal loss to me and his family. He was a good friend."
He is survived by his wife, Letitia, son Brian and daughters Karen and Lorna.