Owner-operator and repeat Volvo Trucks customer, Tony Gough, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of his business with the purchase of a new Volvo FH.

The FH 500 8x4 tipper is also believed to be the first Globetrotter cabbed new-series FH 8x4 in the UK to be bodied as a tipper.

Gough, who operates the FH in the livery of Midland Quarry Products (MQP), has been a Volvo customer for the whole of the twenty years he has run his own transport business.

His first Volvo was an FL10-320 8x4. “It was a good truck that served me well,” he said.

Since then, he has operated several FM-460 Globetrotter-cabbed 8x4 tippers, all on asphalt work.

His new FH operates out of the MQP coated stone plant in Wednesbury and also Clee Hill Quarry in Shropshire. The truck was supplied by Truck and Bus Wales & West and is to be maintained by Hartshorne at Kingswinford.