This certainly isn’t your average haulage fleet. NGC Contracting’s work takes them sometimes miles off the beaten track, repairing and replacing the nation’s electricity grid. To be able to do this, a wide selection of trucks, vans, excavators and tracked vehicles are required. You won’t find any 6x2 midlifts here!
The company was established by Nick Gunn. Originally from Inverness, his family moved to the borders in 1989 when he was 14. “My dad was a land surveyor and we would travel all over the UK in his Mk2 Escort van. I can remember him putting it on a train in Inverness and using a sleeper service to go south,” he recalls.
With the work mileage so high due to the northern location, the family made the move south as there were more opportunities closer to the central belt and England.
Nick left school and started work as a spray painter and panel beater. “That was a great job, and I learned a lot at it,” he says, “but what I really wanted was to work outdoors.” When a job came up for a linesman working on the electrical grid, he jumped at it. All those summers climbing trees as a kid would prove more useful than any exam qualification!
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