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LOCATION: Allen's Park, Moycullen, Co Galway FOUNDED: 16 February 1996
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CONTACT Laurence °Toole (transport director) FLEET SIZE: 10 (Scanias) CONTRACT: Delivering food and dry goods to Musgrave's and Tesco; and taking fish and beef to the Continent Three generations of the O'Toole family have been involvea in this family haulage business. John Pak OToole operated seven trucks in the '40s, '50s and '60s; but he died suddenly of a heart attack in the 1960s. None of his family was old enough to carry on and the business was dissolved.
Today, his grandson Laurence says it was always the family's intention to return to haulage. "My father, Larry, worked on my grandfather's dairy farm until 1996," he says. "Dairying went so bad hen that he decided to get back into haulage."
The company now has 10 trucks working in Galway and Moyculien.
As well as delivering for Tesco and Musgrave's in the grocery sector, OToole trucks collect fish and frozen beef throughout Ireland and deliver it to mainland Europe.
Laurence loads some trailers himself and calls on his Irish-based customers when he is loading.
1 go to the Continent twice a year on a trip and I visit the bigger customers out there as well," he says.
Valuable low-cost driver training is delivered to 'he team, including O'Toole. at the staff training and safety courses run by Musgrave's and Tesco.
Two in-house mechanics provide servicing to the fleet. His sister Mary (pictured) handles the accounts. Laurence is an IRHA member, but life on the road has prevented him from becoming actively involved in the association. However, a recent move into full-time management may yleld time for IRHA affairs, he says.
The firm sponsors the Moycullen junior Gaelic football team's gear and bags and has provided funding for a new pitch.