Our company was founded in 1962 by Gerald A Mason with the acquisition of a small farm holding at Swineshead, including in the purchase was two small cattle trucks and the A&B licenses required in those days to operate them. The intention was not to use these vehicles but to develop the farm, but when customers of the previous owner started asking for cattle, sheep and pigs to be moved to market, the opportunity for extra revenue to supplement the farm income could not be turned down.

The rest as they say 'is history' and by the turn of the decade Gerald A Mason Transport as it was formerly known had, despite strong competition from established companies developed into a thriving livestock transport business, supplying transport of stock from farm to market and on to the abattoir, and helping to cope with the large import business of cattle from Ireland at that time, and also overnight housing of stock at its Swineshead premises.

By the early seventies a move towards potato transport had begun, initially in bags but with Gerald's keen eye for an opening, he had the foresight to have two new potato bulkers built to his design to coincide with the opening of new potato processing and chip factories across the country. As a result becoming a pioneer in the movement of potatoes by this new mode.