M I HOPKINSON TRANSPORT PROFESSIONAL EUROPEAN TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

The company was established in 1985, when Mick left British Rail Engineering LTD as an Engineer and bought his first truck.

 With Mick working out of a local quarry delivering concrete blocks to building sites and builders merchants

He had 3 years working on his own. 

The company then grew to 3 lorries with cranes delivering blocks and bricks.  

After a recession in the building industry in the late 90s Mick was  tempted abroad delivering supplies for the army after the Balkan conflict to Kosovo and Bosnia where he met liked minded hauliers who found him more work when this work dried up.

After that job was finished Mick went on to work for Astran with his own trucks for four and a half years, delivering to Dubai, Doha, Syria and most of the middle eastern countries.

When this work finished  Mick came back to work in the UK and Europe. He then joined the team at Askey transport doing all there international runs with his own lorries. The company still has 3 dedicated lorries working for Askeys transport at Dinnington Sheffield 

Mick then bought a house in the Charnte area in France and once the locals knew that he had a haulage company they started asking him to bring deliveries down for them and the job has grown from this. 

While working in France he met George White who owned George White European Transport and David Hollingsworth of DHH Transport who were doing very similar work and was asked if he wanted to share the warehousing and distribution services with them which he agreed to. When David retired 2 years later Mick bought David's lorry and company and carried on doing his work. 

The year after that George found the paperwork and all the compliance work for the Trucks and trailers  too much for him and he became part of the team as a work-organiser for Mick

 Suzie and Eloise , Mick’s Daughter's joined the company in 2019 as additional Transport Manager and compliance Manager to keep up with the extra work on compliance and to get the company up to the FORS standard for London sites 

Since Brexit Gill in the office can now sort out all customs declarations for transporting all goods from the UK to France and return with UK and French customs for the export and import clearances from anything from a small chair to a full house removal