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School recently bought a whole lot of new bikes to help Thanks to the LG Anderson team, the kids’ excitement with
teach its kids how to be safe on the road, it contacted their new bikes was fantastic and the company’s support won’t be the Forum to see if might help delivering them. forgotten in a hurry. T&D
The RTF itself didn’t have the capacity to do the job...but contacted prominent local operator LG Anderson Transport.... which was more than keen to help out.
So, one Friday in March, 54 brand-new specialised bikes from Burkes Cycles in Kilbirnie were delivered to some very happy schoolchildren and were soon in use on the school’s newly-completed bike track.
Some may question why a transport company would spare a driver and a truck for half a day to run around after a bunch of primary school kids when it could be out on the road doing the freight task and making money.
Well, it was an investment well worth making, according to LG Anderson managing director John Anderson: “I’m still a pretty keen cyclist myself,” he reveals, adding that he now owns an e-bike.
“So when the request came through it just sounded like something that we should support. If a school is willing to teach its pupils how to ride a bike and use the road safely then that can only be good for our industry....which will one day be sharing the road with those kids.”
According to LG Anderson driver Brett Boyle, who transported the bikes: “I’ve been told by John and Craig that delivering these bikes is my number one priority for the day and I’m sure the kids are
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