About Us
The company started out in September of 1973 when the founder Merv Way bought a second hand Dodge 500 flatbed lorry from John Evans (Of Evans Transport) of Barnstaple. The company was run from their home in South Molton with Merv’s wife Helen looking after the accounts. The company grew steadily over the next few years and the company soon bought an AEC Mercury flatbed and their first ever tractor unit in order to transport bulk orders of coal in order to supplement local deliveries of coal. By 1985 the company had moved and established a working yard at Molland some three miles to the East of South Molton. By this time the company had expanded to 9 vehicles and the transportation of bulk loads of predominantly coal began to form a larger part of the business. At this time vehicles would typically be loaded with Sand from Devon to be delivered in the Midlands and returning with coal from the Nottinghamshire coal fields, work which continues to the present day.
The company moved in 1986 to new premises in South Molton which is now occupied by a café at about the same time as Merv’s son Nick had just left school and was very keen to join the family firm, soon to be followed by his sister Karen.
In 1992 the company moved back into the heart of South Molton occupying premises at Southley Road where vehicles are still maintained to this day through the auspices of South Molton Commercials a company wholly owned by the Way family. The fleet of orange (Vauxhall Cargo orange is the correct description) vehicles were a familiar site in the cattle market car park together with other local hauliers who chose to park there vehicles there.
At this stage the fleet had expanded to 20 vehicles mainly Seddon Atkinsons and Volvos and the types of goods carried had also diversified to include clay from local pits for delivery to Stoke on Trent and Hull. The company grew in the years that followed and the fleet steadily increased in both size and makes, with the company deciding to purchase DAFs for the first time. By 2001 the company had moved into a sector that required the purchase of walking floor trailers to service a contract they had to transport waste paper to recycling plants.
In November 2005 the company purchased Eggbeer’s Transport from Newton Abbot a firm who had a long history in the transportation of local clay and they were also well known to M Way & son as the two companies had worked closely together for many years. With the purchase the fleet size had increased to 44 vehicles operating from South Molton and Newton Abbot. In November 2006 the company relocated to purpose built premises at Pathfields Industrial estate on the outskirts of South Molton where the day to day running of the company takes place. Today the company operates 48 vehicles of various marques including for the first time ever two Renaults which are proving very popular with both drivers and mechanics alike.
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M Way and Son (Transport Ltd)
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