Haulier commemorated on DAF XF 105 truck
The life of well-known UK haulier Stan Robinson, whose sudden death in April shocked the industry, is being commemorated by a specially painted truck that has just gone onto the road. His son Mark described the new top-of-the-range DAF XF105 with its special paint finish by leading airbrush artist Andy Scott of Barnsley, as a fitting tribute to my father who devoted his life to building the family business and to the transport industry.
The livery includes a time line setting out the key dates and events in the Robinson familys involvement with road transport. It starts with Stans own father who delivered coal in the post war years in a three tonne Bedford, often with Stan in the cab. And it shows how Stan started the present company in 1970 with a single truck, which he drove himself.
Steady expansion over the following four decades saw the business grow to a size where it now employs 330 people, runs a fleet of 180 trucks from four locations, and provides a full warehousing and logistics service.