McAuliffe Trucking Co

Tabnabs · 17-10-2012 4:13pm

Poor auld Shane is PMing in terror.

super_furry · 17-10-2012 4:14pm

vicwatson wrote: »

And only 8 followers, awwwwwwwwwww, wonder why?

And one of those followers is @trulyirishcf - Truly Irish's twitter account. Nothing shady here.

tuborg_man · 17-10-2012 4:14pm

-Corkie- wrote: »

I wonder is Seinas related to Cryogen or BMW535D?????:pac:

Haha, look at everything you have started mal,

Gary ITR · 17-10-2012 4:14pm

Sweet Jesus I actually lold!

Big Nasty · 17-10-2012 4:16pm

My name is URL wrote: »

You'd wonder how these guys manage to run successful companies considering how they can't seem to even deal with this fiasco.

Didn't Bill Cullen have 27 companies to his name?

Stinicker wrote: »

Isn't Commercial interaction on boards forbidden unless it is through the proper channel? If a user has registered to promote (or possibly limit damage) for a company, then it could be categorized as a spammer whom are usually subsequently banned!

Ah no leave him, he's great craic! :pac:

Chuck_Norris · 17-10-2012 4:16pm

-Corkie- wrote: »

I wonder is Seinas related to Cryogen or BMW535D?????:pac:

Could be, could be. Thread is getting a nomination for thread of the year.

challengemaster · 17-10-2012 4:18pm

Robbo wrote: »

I'd imagine that this is less the work of a marketing manager and more the work of an undergrad thinking this would be a great final year project. If someone was actually paid money for this poorly thought out, executed and managed stunt, a P45 should be flung at them with gusto.

"Make it viral, they said. Be grand, they said".

Highly doubt it tbh, anyone with any sort of education would have more sense than to pull of this stunt.

Truly Irish Country Foods · 17-10-2012 4:22pm

Hi all, this is the statement we have received from McAuliffe Trucking, hope this clears everything up.

"To Whom It May Concern,

Hoping you are well. I am a manager in McAuliffe Trucking. We are established since 1970 and take great pride in our fleet, drivers and staff.

We contribute our time to charities and regularly make donations. Since there is a local Charity Scania Truck run in Kerry, we could never get involved as we run DAF trucks so we said we would start our own Charity DAF run or an all make of truck Charity run.

We recently had a little girl succumb to Leukaemia and we named our flagship DAF in memory of her. This truck is now called Lady Ava. We also got vinyl stickers made with the Leukaemia penguin to raise awarness and to keep a constant memory of Ava. We have these fitted to all our trucks and can send you a pack if you want to give me your details.

On Sunday 14/10/12, we had a photo shoot to start the promotion of our Charity run. I had called the Castleisland Gardai seeking permission on Friday 12/10/12 to conduct a photo shoot on the
N21 and the Castleisland Bypass. The Gardai gave me permission to do this which be verified at Castleisland Garda Station.

I then arranged a meeting with all staff for 3pm on Saturday 13/10/12, all details were discussed and jobs and traffic controller positions were assigned. I also carried out a full risk assessment and received signatures of all involved. The weather on Sunday was good so we arranged to meet up and begin preparations for the photo shoot. There were traffic controllers positioned at the front and back of the three trucks for the duration of the video shoot.

Still shots were taken at the view point and the bridge on the bypass of Castleisland afterwards. For the still shot on the bridge, I sent only two drivers to the bridge as the third driver did not know his way there. He stopped under the bridge with his hazard, parking and dipped headlights on and waited for one of the other drivers to come down the steps and sit in with him to guide him to the bridge road. He was waiting no longer than one minute and during this time, a silver car came up behind him and swung out in to the path of another car. There was a touch of bumpers and the two cars stopped, the drivers got out, talked to each other, shook hands and drove away.

Unfortunately, this was captured by someone on a phone, uploaded on YouTube and has since gone viral. As soon as we heard about it, we got the video taken down immediately but then someone uploaded it again and titled it “McAuliffe Trucking Dangerous Driving”.

Every person involved in the photo shoot is dismayed after putting their free time at their own expense into both Saturday and Sunday for a worthy charity promotion, only to have backfired due to a small accident that was caused by a car not watching his lane while our company was also put up on YouTube and portrayed by a small minority as dangerous driving.

Now as you can see, we had received permission from the Gardai, carried out a Risk assessment/Risk report, had plenty of qualified personal to arrange everything whilst wearing HiViz gear and everything went according to plan.

I would also like to mention that we received a phonecall this morning from Breda O’Brien, Suicide Awareness, asking McAuliffe Trucking to help raise funds for the organisation. If you wish to donate or contribute to these charities, please contact McAuliffe Trucking.

Finally, I would like to say thank you to all the staff and everyone that came in on Saturday and Sunday on their days off to help and assist in everyway the Charity Truck run. They’re a great bunch of people.

Keep up the Good Work.

Kind and Very Best Regards
Davy Corkery
McAuliffe Trucking."

keysersoze0330 · 17-10-2012 4:23pm

I'd say he' s flung his computer out the window and is in bed with the duvet over his head. Or pressing f5 with one hand over his face peeping at the trail of destruction in his wake

alias no.9 · 17-10-2012 4:23pm

challengemaster wrote: »

Highly doubt it tbh, anyone with any sort of education would have more sense than to pull of this stunt.

What was the old adage...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Chuck_Norris · 17-10-2012 4:24pm

Truly Irish Country Foods wrote: »

Hi all, this is the statement we have received from McAuliffe Trucking, hope this clears everything up.

"To Whom It May Concern,

Hoping you are well. I am a manager in McAuliffe Trucking. We are established since 1970 and take great pride in our fleet, drivers and staff.

We contribute our time to charities and regularly make donations. Since there is a local Charity Scania Truck run in Kerry, we could never get involved as we run DAF trucks so we said we would start our own Charity DAF run or an all make of truck Charity run.

We recently had a little girl succumb to Leukaemia and we named our flagship DAF in memory of her. This truck is now called Lady Ava. We also got vinyl stickers made with the Leukaemia penguin to raise awarness and to keep a constant memory of Ava. We have these fitted to all our trucks and can send you a pack if you want to give me your details.

On Sunday 14/10/12, we had a photo shoot to start the promotion of our Charity run. I had called the Castleisland Gardai seeking permission on Friday 12/10/12 to conduct a photo shoot on the
N21 and the Castleisland Bypass. The Gardai gave me permission to do this which be verified at Castleisland Garda Station.

I then arranged a meeting with all staff for 3pm on Saturday 13/10/12, all details were discussed and jobs and traffic controller positions were assigned. I also carried out a full risk assessment and received signatures of all involved. The weather on Sunday was good so we arranged to meet up and begin preparations for the photo shoot. There were traffic controllers positioned at the front and back of the three trucks for the duration of the video shoot.

Still shots were taken at the view point and the bridge on the bypass of Castleisland afterwards. For the still shot on the bridge, I sent only two drivers to the bridge as the third driver did not know his way there. He stopped under the bridge with his hazard, parking and dipped headlights on and waited for one of the other drivers to come down the steps and sit in with him to guide him to the bridge road. He was waiting no longer than one minute and during this time, a silver car came up behind him and swung out in to the path of another car. There was a touch of bumpers and the two cars stopped, the drivers got out, talked to each other, shook hands and drove away.

Unfortunately, this was captured by someone on a phone, uploaded on YouTube and has since gone viral. As soon as we heard about it, we got the video taken down immediately but then someone uploaded it again and titled it “McAuliffe Trucking Dangerous Driving”.

Every person involved in the photo shoot is dismayed after putting their free time at their own expense into both Saturday and Sunday for a worthy charity promotion, only to have backfired due to a small accident that was caused by a car not watching his lane while our company was also put up on YouTube and portrayed by a small minority as dangerous driving.

Now as you can see, we had received permission from the Gardai, carried out a Risk assessment/Risk report, had plenty of qualified personal to arrange everything whilst wearing HiViz gear and everything went according to plan.

I would also like to mention that we received a phonecall this morning from Breda O’Brien, Suicide Awareness, asking McAuliffe Trucking to help raise funds for the organisation. If you wish to donate or contribute to these charities, please contact McAuliffe Trucking.

Finally, I would like to say thank you to all the staff and everyone that came in on Saturday and Sunday on their days off to help and assist in everyway the Charity Truck run. They’re a great bunch of people.

Keep up the Good Work.

Kind and Very Best Regards
Davy Corkery
McAuliffe Trucking."

That answers the first video. But what about the one with the three trucks driving abreast on the road???

padraig.od · 17-10-2012 4:25pm

ignore

MadsL · 17-10-2012 4:26pm

Firstly shameless "it was for charidy" spin.

Secondly

everything went according to plan

You planned to put lives at risk? You could have killed that car driver.

urajoke · 17-10-2012 4:27pm

and everything went according to plan.

Really !!!!!

Guy:Incognito · 17-10-2012 4:27pm

While obviously he shouldn't be stopped on the road, the car that pulled doubt across the other one is at fault for the crash in the first video. It happened to be a stopped truck this time but could be a crash or something else on the road next time. The driver wasn't paying attention.

jasonb · 17-10-2012 4:28pm

I'd hardly say it answers the first video, I don't see how 'everything went according to plan' or how 'There were traffic controllers positioned at the front and back of the three trucks for the duration of the video shoot'...

J.

Dawn Rider · 17-10-2012 4:28pm

In the statement he says the weather was good. Then why were the roads wet?

Good job the two car drivers shook hands and went on their way. Their insurance companies may look at the truck as a contributing factor.

The three trucks driving three abreast one's ok. That was for charity too...

Kenny Logins · 17-10-2012 4:28pm

I find that statement insulting, they must think we're morons.

For Forks Sake · 17-10-2012 4:29pm

Truly Irish Country Foods wrote: »

everything went according to plan.

Tallon · 17-10-2012 4:29pm

You cannot stop on a motorway unless it's in the hard shoulder, he was stopped in the first lane!

And explain the second video

I've downloaded the videos should they be taken down, I'll re-upload them!

Anyone have the original link to the videos? If I get permission from the owner I can upload them to my channel without being removed

SnowDrifts · 17-10-2012 4:29pm

Guys I think we should ignore posts purporting to be statements from McAuliffe until they publish the said statement on their website because the above BS has to be a wind up.

17-10-2012 4:29pm

Love that they put the blame on the "car not watching his lane", not on the TRUCK THAT WAS STOPPED ON A DUAL CARRAIGEWAY UNDER A BRIDGE

h2005 · 17-10-2012 4:29pm

"small accident that was caused by a car not watching his lane" Where were your "traffic controllers" for this? That statement is a load of bollocks

Where To · 17-10-2012 4:29pm

Truly Irish Country Foods wrote: »

Hi all, this is the statement we have received from McAuliffe Trucking, hope this clears everything up.

"To Whom It May Concern,

Hoping you are well. I am a manager in McAuliffe Trucking. We are established since 1970 and take great pride in our fleet, drivers and staff.

We contribute our time to charities and regularly make donations. Since there is a local Charity Scania Truck run in Kerry, we could never get involved as we run DAF trucks so we said we would start our own Charity DAF run or an all make of truck Charity run.

We recently had a little girl succumb to Leukaemia and we named our flagship DAF in memory of her. This truck is now called Lady Ava. We also got vinyl stickers made with the Leukaemia penguin to raise awarness and to keep a constant memory of Ava. We have these fitted to all our trucks and can send you a pack if you want to give me your details.

On Sunday 14/10/12, we had a photo shoot to start the promotion of our Charity run. I had called the Castleisland Gardai seeking permission on Friday 12/10/12 to conduct a photo shoot on the
N21 and the Castleisland Bypass. The Gardai gave me permission to do this which be verified at Castleisland Garda Station.

I then arranged a meeting with all staff for 3pm on Saturday 13/10/12, all details were discussed and jobs and traffic controller positions were assigned. I also carried out a full risk assessment and received signatures of all involved. The weather on Sunday was good so we arranged to meet up and begin preparations for the photo shoot. There were traffic controllers positioned at the front and back of the three trucks for the duration of the video shoot.

Still shots were taken at the view point and the bridge on the bypass of Castleisland afterwards. For the still shot on the bridge, I sent only two drivers to the bridge as the third driver did not know his way there. He stopped under the bridge with his hazard, parking and dipped headlights on and waited for one of the other drivers to come down the steps and sit in with him to guide him to the bridge road. He was waiting no longer than one minute and during this time, a silver car came up behind him and swung out in to the path of another car. There was a touch of bumpers and the two cars stopped, the drivers got out, talked to each other, shook hands and drove away.

Unfortunately, this was captured by someone on a phone, uploaded on YouTube and has since gone viral. As soon as we heard about it, we got the video taken down immediately but then someone uploaded it again and titled it “McAuliffe Trucking Dangerous Driving”.

Every person involved in the photo shoot is dismayed after putting their free time at their own expense into both Saturday and Sunday for a worthy charity promotion, only to have backfired due to a small accident that was caused by a car not watching his lane while our company was also put up on YouTube and portrayed by a small minority as dangerous driving.

Now as you can see, we had received permission from the Gardai, carried out a Risk assessment/Risk report, had plenty of qualified personal to arrange everything whilst wearing HiViz gear and everything went according to plan.

I would also like to mention that we received a phonecall this morning from Breda O’Brien, Suicide Awareness, asking McAuliffe Trucking to help raise funds for the organisation. If you wish to donate or contribute to these charities, please contact McAuliffe Trucking.

Finally, I would like to say thank you to all the staff and everyone that came in on Saturday and Sunday on their days off to help and assist in everyway the Charity Truck run. They’re a great bunch of people.

Keep up the Good Work.

Kind and Very Best Regards
Davy Corkery
McAuliffe Trucking."

Jaysus, have you not even the decency to apologise when you are caught out like? Excuses, excuses, bleeding heart blah blah blah.

Yous f*cked up, someone could have been killed, forget about trying to spin it. End of story.

VinLieger · 17-10-2012 4:30pm

Truly Irish Country Foods wrote: »

Hi all, this is the statement we have received from McAuliffe Trucking, hope this clears everything up.

"To Whom It May Concern,

Hoping you are well. I am a manager in McAuliffe Trucking. We are established since 1970 and take great pride in our fleet, drivers and staff.

We contribute our time to charities and regularly make donations. Since there is a local Charity Scania Truck run in Kerry, we could never get involved as we run DAF trucks so we said we would start our own Charity DAF run or an all make of truck Charity run.

We recently had a little girl succumb to Leukaemia and we named our flagship DAF in memory of her. This truck is now called Lady Ava. We also got vinyl stickers made with the Leukaemia penguin to raise awarness and to keep a constant memory of Ava. We have these fitted to all our trucks and can send you a pack if you want to give me your details.

On Sunday 14/10/12, we had a photo shoot to start the promotion of our Charity run. I had called the Castleisland Gardai seeking permission on Friday 12/10/12 to conduct a photo shoot on the
N21 and the Castleisland Bypass. The Gardai gave me permission to do this which be verified at Castleisland Garda Station.

I then arranged a meeting with all staff for 3pm on Saturday 13/10/12, all details were discussed and jobs and traffic controller positions were assigned. I also carried out a full risk assessment and received signatures of all involved. The weather on Sunday was good so we arranged to meet up and begin preparations for the photo shoot. There were traffic controllers positioned at the front and back of the three trucks for the duration of the video shoot.

Still shots were taken at the view point and the bridge on the bypass of Castleisland afterwards. For the still shot on the bridge, I sent only two drivers to the bridge as the third driver did not know his way there. He stopped under the bridge with his hazard, parking and dipped headlights on and waited for one of the other drivers to come down the steps and sit in with him to guide him to the bridge road. He was waiting no longer than one minute and during this time, a silver car came up behind him and swung out in to the path of another car. There was a touch of bumpers and the two cars stopped, the drivers got out, talked to each other, shook hands and drove away.

Unfortunately, this was captured by someone on a phone, uploaded on YouTube and has since gone viral. As soon as we heard about it, we got the video taken down immediately but then someone uploaded it again and titled it “McAuliffe Trucking Dangerous Driving”.

Every person involved in the photo shoot is dismayed after putting their free time at their own expense into both Saturday and Sunday for a worthy charity promotion, only to have backfired due to a small accident that was caused by a car not watching his lane while our company was also put up on YouTube and portrayed by a small minority as dangerous driving.

Now as you can see, we had received permission from the Gardai, carried out a Risk assessment/Risk report, had plenty of qualified personal to arrange everything whilst wearing HiViz gear and everything went according to plan.

I would also like to mention that we received a phonecall this morning from Breda O’Brien, Suicide Awareness, asking McAuliffe Trucking to help raise funds for the organisation. If you wish to donate or contribute to these charities, please contact McAuliffe Trucking.

Finally, I would like to say thank you to all the staff and everyone that came in on Saturday and Sunday on their days off to help and assist in everyway the Charity Truck run. They’re a great bunch of people.

Keep up the Good Work.

Kind and Very Best Regards
Davy Corkery
McAuliffe Trucking."

Thats all well and good, if it was for a good cause we can all understand that and well done IF as you say you had Garda permission which from the way youve been behaving and the fact the video and your statement dont really add up is questionable, but where was has this statement been for the last 8 hours while youve been threatening people with the gardai and copyright infringement? It really makes this statement look like a last ditch attempt at damage control and doesnt give it any credence whatsoever
Also what about the driving 3 abreast video and the other that has since disappeared of the roundabout incident?

Chuck_Norris · 17-10-2012 4:30pm

jasonb wrote: »

I'd hardly say it answers the first video, I don't see how 'everything went according to plan' or how 'There were traffic controllers positioned at the front and back of the three trucks for the duration of the video shoot'...

J.

Very valid point man.

I should've said it answers the first video for them. Not the one which was really shown to be dangerous driving, a la, three trucks abreast on a single carriageway.

Mikko Mallikas · 17-10-2012 4:30pm

I contacted Mc Auliffes and got no response, I did however get a reply from the Guards asking if I knew the location or dates of the incidents, I sent them a Google maps link to the accident site and their response was "shocking" and "will be sent to Kerry Gardai for investigation" The Journal.ie said "We are following up on this" The RSA said "Thank you for your email. Unfortunately it does not come within the remit of the RSA. However we have already forwarded this matter to the Gardaí for investigation."
And here is the response from Truly Irish.

"Thank you for your email. I hope that you can understand that Truly Irish
was not involved in the making of these videos. We were alerted last night
and it was a matter of urgency that it be investigated. We would never
instigate something like this as we have worked long and hard to get where
we are today, and with the crisis our pig farmers are enduring at the
moment, we would not dare wish this upon ourselves.

We are told it was for a charity event and was done by an outside haulier.
These videos have already tarnished our brand overnight and we cannot afford
to be associated with these videos any longer.

Truly Irish is a farmer co-op set up by a group of 85 farmers in 2009 to
fight against the mislabeling of foreign pork as Irish. We are helping to
save the Irish pig industry and safeguard 8,000 Irish jobs. If you look back
at our marketing, we have never done something so inappropriate and harmful
to our brand or to others, all we do is try make the consumer more conscious
about buying Irish and supporting your local farmer. We have been on Tv on
programmes such as Brod Club, Ear to the Ground, The Consumer Show, The
Business with George Lee etc all pushing the fact that all our products are
100% Irish and fully traceable. We do not engage in this method of
marketing.

As you can imagine, this is very upsetting for a brand like Truly Irish to
be associated with what has happened. Please do not paint us with the same
brush.

I can assure you that this is being dealt with complete urgency.

Kindest regards,

L..... ............
Truly Irish Country Foods
1 Park Mews
Park Road
Charleville
Co. Cork
T: [URL="tel:%2B353%2063%2032468"]+353 63 32468[/URL]
M: [URL="tel:%2B353%2086%207202686"]+353 86 7202686[/URL]
E: l....@trulyirish.ie
www.trulyirish.ie "

testicle · 17-10-2012 4:31pm

Truly Irish Country Foods wrote: »

Hi all, this is the statement we have received from McAuliffe Trucking, hope this clears everything up.

"To Whom It May Concern,

Hoping you are well. I am a manager in McAuliffe Trucking. We are established since 1970 and take great pride in our fleet, drivers and staff.

We contribute our time to charities and regularly make donations. Since there is a local Charity Scania Truck run in Kerry, we could never get involved as we run DAF trucks so we said we would start our own Charity DAF run or an all make of truck Charity run.

We recently had a little girl succumb to Leukaemia and we named our flagship DAF in memory of her. This truck is now called Lady Ava. We also got vinyl stickers made with the Leukaemia penguin to raise awarness and to keep a constant memory of Ava. We have these fitted to all our trucks and can send you a pack if you want to give me your details.

On Sunday 14/10/12, we had a photo shoot to start the promotion of our Charity run. I had called the Castleisland Gardai seeking permission on Friday 12/10/12 to conduct a photo shoot on the
N21 and the Castleisland Bypass. The Gardai gave me permission to do this which be verified at Castleisland Garda Station.

I then arranged a meeting with all staff for 3pm on Saturday 13/10/12, all details were discussed and jobs and traffic controller positions were assigned. I also carried out a full risk assessment and received signatures of all involved. The weather on Sunday was good so we arranged to meet up and begin preparations for the photo shoot. There were traffic controllers positioned at the front and back of the three trucks for the duration of the video shoot.

Still shots were taken at the view point and the bridge on the bypass of Castleisland afterwards. For the still shot on the bridge, I sent only two drivers to the bridge as the third driver did not know his way there. He stopped under the bridge with his hazard, parking and dipped headlights on and waited for one of the other drivers to come down the steps and sit in with him to guide him to the bridge road. He was waiting no longer than one minute and during this time, a silver car came up behind him and swung out in to the path of another car. There was a touch of bumpers and the two cars stopped, the drivers got out, talked to each other, shook hands and drove away.

Unfortunately, this was captured by someone on a phone, uploaded on YouTube and has since gone viral. As soon as we heard about it, we got the video taken down immediately but then someone uploaded it again and titled it “McAuliffe Trucking Dangerous Driving”.

Every person involved in the photo shoot is dismayed after putting their free time at their own expense into both Saturday and Sunday for a worthy charity promotion, only to have backfired due to a small accident that was caused by a car not watching his lane while our company was also put up on YouTube and portrayed by a small minority as dangerous driving.

Now as you can see, we had received permission from the Gardai, carried out a Risk assessment/Risk report, had plenty of qualified personal to arrange everything whilst wearing HiViz gear and everything went according to plan.

I would also like to mention that we received a phonecall this morning from Breda O’Brien, Suicide Awareness, asking McAuliffe Trucking to help raise funds for the organisation. If you wish to donate or contribute to these charities, please contact McAuliffe Trucking.

Finally, I would like to say thank you to all the staff and everyone that came in on Saturday and Sunday on their days off to help and assist in everyway the Charity Truck run. They’re a great bunch of people.

Keep up the Good Work.

Kind and Very Best Regards
Davy Corkery
McAuliffe Trucking."

Hi Shane,

Please explain this video, which also shows McAuliffe Trucking's trucks with Truly Irish's trailers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNkcnEcm3go

Big Nasty · 17-10-2012 4:32pm

Truly Irish Country Foods wrote: »

everything went according to plan.

Mods - can you check the IP's to see if TICF is a re-reg of seinas1? If so there's a case for mis-representation (or something) there.

My name is URL · 17-10-2012 4:32pm

Truly Irish Country Foods wrote: »

Now as you can see, we had received permission from the Gardai, carried out a Risk assessment/Risk report, had plenty of qualified personal to arrange everything whilst wearing HiViz gear and everything went according to plan.

Jaysus.. I'd hate to see what would have happened if your impeccable planning had failed.

McAuliffe Trucking Co

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