Sloan Transport Ltd has been successfully trading near Dromore, Co. Down since 1971. As well as offering a wide range of transport services, the family-run business is one of the largest suppliers of agricultural bedding products in Ireland.
The Sloan name has been synonymous with animal bedding products since the 1950s when Carl Sloan started supplying sawdust and shavings to local farmers. His son William, who died tragically last December, set up what is now known as Sloan Transport, Dromara, focusing on general haulage and sawdust and shavings.
Sloan Transport is nowadays headed by Sam, Will’s brother, and Will’s three sons, Kenny, who manages the commercial workshop, repairs, servicing and PSV’s, Ali who manages sawdust and shavings, and Derek oversees the haulage with Sam. They employ 22 staff, run a modern and reliable fleet of 16 trucks and 80 trailers. The trucks, which are always immaculately turned out, are a mixture of Volvo Renault, Scania and Mercedes. The trailer fleet is made up of coil flats, curtain-siders, bulk tippers, coil Euroliners, fork-lift mounted, cutain sided carriers and extendable flat trailers.
The vehicles are regularly serviced and maintained in the company’s workshop by Kenny to ensure the wheels of the operation are always reliable and turning, with downtime kept to a minimum. The truck colours are red and white, while the trailers are silver and red.
Down through the years, Sloan Transport has shown a willingness to adapt to the specific needs of the customer and a commitment to provide a first-class and unrivalled service. Big enough to cope, small enough to care. Since 1971, the company has provided a safe, reliable and speedy haulage service for hundreds of satisfied clients. Customers consistently choose Sloan Transport because of its prompt and professional service, its wide coverage area in both Ireland the UK, its courteous drivers and staff. The company has been a long-standing member of the RHA (Road Haulage Association).
Sloan Transport’s location near Dromore on the A1 Belfast-Dublin Road means it is ideally situated to cater for its customers’ needs, while the major ports of Belfast, Warrenpoint, Dublin and Larne are also within easy reach.
Six staff are employed full-time in Sloan’s Shavings, which supplies an extensive range of bedding products to the poultry, equine and livestock sectors. Sourced from reputable sawmills, the timber is FSC approved . The bedding products supplied are Bedmax Shavings, white wood shavings, mixed wood shavings bales (a combination of white and coloured wood shavings), dust-free shavings and wood pellets, dried sawdust bulk and bales.
The products can be delivered or collected. A next-day delivery service throughout Ireland is offered in loose form using blowers, tippers and walking floors. Customers also have the option to buy a pallet of kiln dried white sawdust consisting of 66 bales per pallet.
“All of the shavings and sawdust we supply are from natural timber, mostly white wood. We have a lot of long standing customers in the dairy, poultry and equine sectors and general merchants, and are well known all over the North and South of Ireland.”
Sloan’s dust-free shavings are clean, odour reducing and convenient, and will help you create a healthy bedding environment for your animals which will save you money over time. Loose sawdust has a number of significant advantages over other forms of bedding, offering higher absorbency, anti-bacterial, easy cleaning and disposal, easy storage and handling. It’s also extremely cost-effective.
The Sloan team are at their busiest from October onwards when animals are brought indoors for the winter. The demand for shavings and sawdust increases dramatically during the winter months.
Sloan Transport Ltd has been offering a professional, reliable and friendly service for the past five decades. The third generation family business is committed to creating efficient, sustainable and cost-effective transport and logistics solutions.
Sloan Transport Ltd
34 Howe Road,
Dromore,
Co. Down BT25 1ET
Telephone: 02897 532589
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sloantransport.co.uk
Taken from Irish Tractor & Agri magazine Vol 3 No 10, November 2015
