Set in the Fife countryside, Collier Haulage uses Volvo trucks to deliver the core of its quarried and recycled materials. Duncan Collier explains to Kevin Swallow about getting started, generating your own work and utilising renewable energy.
IT’S EXACTLY five years ago since a new Volvo in Collier Haulage colours was on the front cover of Transport News.
Operating from its Goathill Quarry outside Easter Bucklyvie, which is a stone’s throw south from Cowdenbeath in Fife, the truck was an FMX eight-wheeler fitted with a Thompsons Bulkmaster aluminium body built at their Dalmeny factory in Edinburgh (TN, June 2018).
A lot of stone, concrete and recycled products have moved across the weighbridge since then.
Located on the B925, the entrance to the quarry is adorned with cows, sheep and a goat on a plinth, the site has expanded and evolved from being a restoration project and quarry to a self-sufficient facility that utilises renewable energy and discarded material.
