It has been just five years since Jamie Fraser set up a haulage business alongside the family farm on the Black Isle.
He speaks with Kevin Swallow about the start, building the fleet and enthuses over his new Volvo FH.
IT’S A well-trodden path from agriculture to haulage, and its one the Fraser family has been down before. From the 1930s to the late 1960s, Fraser Brothers operated a fleet of three trucks from Munlochy on the Black Isle, north of Inverness in the Highlands.
Those Fraser brothers include Jamie Fraser’s grandfather John and his siblings. Jamie’s own move from farming to haulage began with a bargain in 2017; a 2005 plated DAF CF rigid with a day cab and a drawbar trailer. ‘It was cheap and bought from a farm sale’, he recalled.
THE START
Agriculture is very much in Jamie Fraser’s blood, his family currently run a 600 acre three-farm business as JS Fraser & Partners from Tore Mains Farm, which grows arable and handles livestock.
