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Over the past two decades, Derek Henry has painstakingly built up an outstanding transportation company, specialising in refrigerated distribution and operating out of Stewartstown in County Tyrone. We met up with the sole proprietor of Derek Henry Haulage to take a closer look at this excellent operation.
erek Henry has been involved in the transport / distribution sector for all of his working life. To this end, he has been providing a keen refrigerated transportation service for the past 20 years, counting German supermarket giants Lidl amongst his customers – a partnership that has been in place for over a decade now. Having originally specialised predominantly in farm supplies and tipper trailer work in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, Derek noticed a sharp slowdown in that particular area and moved into refrigerated transport instead. This was an inspired move and the man behind Derek Henry Haulage has never looked
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back! For the past 16 years, Derek Henry Haulage has been subcontracted to Norman McBurney Transport in Ballymena - one of Ireland’s largest and most respected independently-run logistics operations. It has proven to be a very productive and a valuable partnership with Derek’s son Mark overseeing this aspect of the overall operation. Meanwhile, as the main chilled, frozen and ambient produce transport provider for Lidl in Northern Ireland, Derek Henry Haulage has up to fourteen lorries out on the road making deliveries across the province from its Nutt’s Corner hub on a
daily basis, seven days a week. In order to secure such a prestigious contract, it was imperative that every aspect of the business was being managed as professionally and efficiently as possible and this could not be achieved without the input of the conscientious and hard-working drivers at Derek Henry Haulage. To this end, Derek is blessed to have at his disposal a trusty team of enthusiastic drivers, without whom the show would simply not be kept on the road! One of his long-serving drivers have provided 16 years of service and counting, while many others have been on the payroll for in excess of nine years.
Derek Henry Haulage 28 Annaghone Road, Stewartstown, County Tyrone. Tel: 077 12881923 IRISH TRUCKER & LIGHT COMMERCIALS