Jim Craig

Initially was asked by my brother to assist him is setting up a new depot for McVeighParker on a self employed basis. this involved picking stock, loading and unloading trucks, and deliveries to customers.

Progressed from there to key accounts manager doing farm sales/demo visits and building up connections for the business which had never had a presence north of the border until this point.

Progress from there to national transport/logistic manager because of my years of experience in transport and earlier this year passed my national /international transport managers certificate of competence.

For the past 5 years i have been responsible for all truck and forklift purchasing and overseeing that our delivery fleet/drivers are totally compliant with current laws and health and safety legislation.

Worked self employed delivering animal feed for this well know animal feed producer using one of their bulk blower trucks.

this was usually for 7-8 months during the winter months, the rest of the time i was still farming/contracting

After completing college, i worked on the family tenanted far along with my father and brother. to increase income , I started a small contracting business mainly based around ploughing,seeding ,spraying, silage making and baling.

As i have always loved and been interested in machinery, i did all my own maintenance and was always looking for ways to adapt and improve any machine i owned, even on occasions building my own if i could not find what i wanted from a manufacturer.