After more than 40 years of putting cranes onto his own trucks, Fraser Dunlop decided to let someone else have a go. Kevin Swallow speaks to the family-run transport company in South Lanarkshire about its innovative history and its latest vehicle from Volvo Trucks.
TUCKED away among the rolling hills of South Lanarkshire is a busy yard belonging to Fraser Dunlop, which is home to a 10 strong fleet of trucks fitted with cranes, alongside a workshop, an office, and a couple of houses.
The eponymously named company is celebrating its 55th year and when I arrive Fraser’s two daughters Heather and Linda and his brother-in-law Rennie Angus are there, but Fraser, and his wife Rosemary, are in Spain. So, this interview with Heather and Rennie includes Fraser on FaceTime via Heather’s phone. Thankfully, the connection is good.
Now 78, Fraser was just 23 with a background in farming when he set up T Dunlop & Son with his father, Thomas, himself a farmer who’d retired and would briefly drive one of the trucks.
