The Bim Mountain Story

How it all started

Kerbey Motors International Transport started in March 2003, but in fact, the family company name has actually been around for over 60 years.

Kerbey Motors first began life thanks to my dad, Albert Mountain who had a yard in Kerbey Street, Poplar, London - buying and selling second hand trucks. After the war, the London council put a compulsory purchase order on the Kerbey Street yard and bought it. As a result, with the proceeds from the sale, my Father bought a yard with a large old house, on the A127 at Hornchurch in Essex. This was where I grew up eventually working alongside my Father.

Later the business moved to Chelmsford in Essex where my job was to dismantle and sometimes re-spray the second hand trucks and mobile cranes, I would also travel the country looking for good stock. Unfortunately, my dad sadly died suddenly in 1975 at the age of 62. I then sold all the stock and closed down the business as my Mother wished.

I then got a job with Ford Motor Company as a Prototype truck test driver for 3 years. Following on from that came a spell working for ‘Heavyhaul, a transport company based in Chelmsford as a transport manager / driver, then later for another local company selling truck and agricultural tyres and managing a scrap yard.

I wanted to be boss!

At the age of 29 I wanted be become my own boss and I started a small business buying and selling vehicles.  I used my Dad’s old company name of ‘Kerbey Motors’, for quite a few years, buying mainly vans from auctions, re-spraying and refurbishing them to a very high standard. Much of the time selling them at auction and mostly to the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey). I also bought a new slidebed transporter body from Boniface Engineering, in Thetford, which I used for transporting the vans.

I became friendly with Mike Boniface who later persuaded me to go and work for him on a self employed basis managing all the used recovery vehicle sales at his Thetford depot. I did this until mid 2002.

Onwards and Upwards!

Still with connections to the recovery industry, I then decided in March 2003 to start an international haulage company still named Kerbey Motors International Transport. After relocating to Aberdeen, we mainly subcontract to a very well respected specialist road transportcompany, Grampian Continental, who are also based in Aberdeen, Scotland, predominantly serving the oil and gas industry. Starting with 2 used Scania 113 Toplines, our fleet is now currently boasting 8 x Topline V8 Scania’s consisting of 1 x 450 bhp 143 Scania, 1 x 530bhp 4 series Scania, 2 x 580 bhp 4 series Scanias, and 4 x 580 R Series Scania’s and one 2007 Ford Transit van.

Hopefully the company will grow with the help of the professional team I employ, and who knows - one day Kerbey maybe as big as Eddie Stobart!