McAuliffe Trucking Co

If I was the elder McAuliffe, I'd be more than a bit peeved right now. He's obviously a long time in the business, and is again, obviously good at it. He has a fine fleet, in what is a tough and competitive industry. Worth noting too, that he's keeping a few people in work, to say the least.

And he quietly enjoys the whole big fish in a small pond gig. As he has done for decades. He wouldn't be alone in that, not least among his neighbours-the Healy-Raes pontificating from the backs of trailers and scooping up prime LA contracts, come to mind.

Then Junior decides, "Ye know what we needs, Paw? A wehb-saht!"

And he duly creates one, and populates it with images of what range from the ridiculous through the self indulgent, to the utterly deluded invasions of public roads and the blatant disregard that we've seen here. And all was well, for years-which makes you wonder what you'd have to do down there to actually cause a commotion.

Finally, Sis decides to get in on the act-jump on the whole social networking marketing thing (or impress her mates, I dunno)-by uploading a number of supersized, pikey pursuits on to youtube, and the rest is history.

Ya know its like they are sticking two fingers up to all of us...



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Little write up here on them

http://www.irishtrucker.com/news/two-of-a-kind-mcauliffe-trucking-company-and-kerry-truck-sales

Sister companies McAuliffe Trucking Company and Kerry Truck Sales complement each other perfectly. Irish Trucker travelled to the company HQ in Castleisland, County Kerry to take a closer look at their symbiotic relationship.

Working very much hand in hand, McAuliffe Trucking Company and Kerry Truck Sales provide an excellent all-round service to the people of Kerry and beyond. Both companies are owned by Mike McAuliffe, who has forged his reputation on cornerstones of efficiency, dependability, service and integrity.

Customer loyalty is a strong characteristic of McAuliffe Trucking Company and they still retain the vast majority of the core clients they’ve worked with down through the years. “We concentrate on the partners we have and we give them a top-class service,” Declan notes. “We find that this is a better policy than trying to put your arms around the world. We value the customers we have and most of them have been with us a long time.”

These include Newmarket Co-op, Kerry Co-op and the Kerry Group. One new company that has come on board recently is Truly Irish County Foods, which produces the very highest-quality Irish pig meat with full traceability. The shareholders in this company are a group of local pig farmers who came together to provide a premier quality food. Mike McAuliffe is one of the directors of Truly Irish Country Foods.

And finally, what’s with the spectacular livery adorning the company fleet? “This is very important to us, as it projects a good image of the company. We have a different theme on each truck and we usually get some input from the driver to see what he is interested in and what he’d like on the truck. We do spend a lot of money on this but we find that over the life of the truck it turns people’s heads and we get positive feedback from it and we get a lot of queries and attention as a result. This can result in new contracts from time to time, so we’ll continue to project a positive image on the road.”

Mikko Mallikas wrote: »

Roundy, I was in Ireland for the last 7 months with my foreign registered car and was absolutely hounded by the traffic corps for no reason, therefore when something like this shows up it really gets my goat that nothing is done about it. Us Irish are great at complaining but F%€k all use when it comes to actually doing something about it.

There's a very strong element of truth to that. It's part of the Irish psyche to have an 'oul moan over the garden fence. And do little else

In your case, it's the proverbial sledgehammer used to crack the (undeserving) nut. For many years, there were cyclical problems with Central/Eastern European registered vehicles (often quite well appointed ones-7 series with three foot alloys and glass darker than Ray Charles' shades), which would land on Irish soil from the ferry, and whose owners would conveniently forget about such niceties as VRT, insurance, speed limits, or worse.

For about five years or so.

With the downturn and the resulting exodus of many of these workers to other climes, the loss of spending power to those who remain, and the fact that many of these cars expired naturally and ended up in Irish scrapyards and recycling facilities, a "foreign" registered vehicle is now a rarity once more.

Unfortunately for well meaning motorists such as yourself (and a few tens of thousands of UK tourists), the Customs and Excise, with their usual lightning fast responses have, after the best part of a decade, decided to clamp down on non Irish registered vehicles.

Welcome and all as their efforts would have been pre-2007, the words stable door and horse, come to mind.

ahyeahok wrote: »

She had 14 videos... guess how many now?

Yes and it's interesting that McAuliffe Trucking are so innocent and all of their publicity stunts were approved and organised yet Orla still removed all of the videos and representative's of the company threatened legal action against anyone who made copies.