John Fenton Sr. operated a livestock transport business since the 1950s running a fleet of Hino, Dennison & DAF trucks. On John seniors retirement, John Jr established Fenton Truck & Trailer LTD in 1996 as John identified a need for a commercial repair garage specialising in the needs of livestock truck operators.
John had a great understanding into the changing needs of livestock truck operators at the time and in late 1997 we became agents for Houghton Parkhouse Coachworks and quickly got to work selling and maintaining their livestock bodies and trailers all over Ireland. During this time John also built a reputation for general truck & trailer repairs, securing work from many local hauliers & milling companies. In 2004 as the needs of many customers developed, we became agents for Pezzaioli Livestock Trailers and have continued this partnership up to today. Together with Pezzaioli we have made many developments and design changes over the years and have helped to make livestock transport much safer, easier and more efficient. By 2013, our business had started to diversify more into fleet maintenance and we were carrying our complete fleet repairs & servicing for local milling companies, Co-Ops & Oil companies. The opportunity arose to take on new staff and clients from another local garage that was closing. This brought about a change for us as we started to forge our way into light commercial vehicle repairs and bus repairs. We took on a major fleet of van repairs and are still providing periodic maintenance for these clients today. Currently we are providing complete maintenance solutions for over 90 vans with various customers. As business developed we became known for repairing & maintaining feed blower trailers. As many of our existing customers operated blower trailers on pig farms etc, we developed a good understanding & knowledge of these trailers. In 2016 we were appointed as a repair & parts agent for Muldoon Transport Systems, the market leader in bulk feed transport. We now have trained staff and a good parts stock to carry out fast and effective repairs on all types of bulk feed trailers. In 2020, we made the hard decision to re-brand as Fenton Commercials LTD. as the new name better reflected our business' wide variety of services in the commercial vehicle sector. 25 years on, we are currently employing 11 staff members and looking forward to what the future holds for us. |