McEveney's have 27 years experience in the automotive business
Recovery the right way Located close to Castlebar, McEveney’s 24 Hour Recovery is in a league of its own when it comes to providing a high-quality, dedicated, responsible and safe breakdown/recovery service. Irish Trucker caught up with company founder Patrick McEveney to get an insight into this excellent operation.
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atrick McEveney could be described as a wise old head. He knows his way around vehicles and he has put all his years of expertise to good use by establishing and fronting McEveney’s 24 Hour Recovery – one of Connacht’s premier breakdown / recovery operators. He has been in the garage business for 27 years and started up the recovery firm in 1999. His older brother Tommy is also involved in the garage end of the business but Patrick is very much the main man and the successful recovery operation is the fruit of his vision and labour. Reflecting on the genesis of the recovery business, the founder reveals: “Tommy was a mechanic before me and I went in as a panel beater and worked in body shops. Between the two of us, we were able
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to do mechanical and body repairs and we worked together in various local garages. We started in the Smith Group, which was owned by Waterford Crystal and we also worked in a Toyota dealership before I set up my own garage.” Based at Tullycommons, Snugboro, Castlebar, County Mayo, McEveney 24 Hour Recovery evolved out of this garage business twelve years ago. “We still have the garage but the breakdown and recovery is now the core of the business,” says Patrick. “We can bring vehicles back to the garage if required but this isn’t usually necessary. We carry the latest diagnostic equipment in our breakdown vehicles and many of the problems can be fixed at the roadside.” No vehicle is two big or two small for McEveney’s. Deploying a state-of-the-
art, customised Mercedes recovery truck, Patrick can recover anything up to 21-foot, three-and-a-half tonnes; while he also operated two Ford Transits with beavertails and two recovery jeeps, which are fully fitted out to work in underground car-parks etc. The recovery vehicles are kitted out with miscellaneous items such as bulbs, fuses, fuel etc. – anything that might get a vehicle up and running as quickly as possible, provided the problem isn’t severe. “We can access anything, anywhere,” the company founder continues. “If there’s heavy lifting to be done, we have access to a heavy lifting vehicle that can handle up to 20 tonne. We can get literally anybody back on the road.” The real beauty of McEveney’s 24 Hour Recovery is that everything is done is such a straightforward, IRISH TRUCKER & LIGHT COMMERCIALS