“Transport is blood, sweat and tears,” says Marga van Waveren of Van Waveren Transport at the end of the interview with Truckland Magazine. Exactly as André Hazes once sang it – even with the same Amsterdam accent. In the time leading up to this, she made it clear that running a transport company is no sinecure. Not even for the daughters of the founder. On the contrary…
Van Waveren has been operating top (trans)sports for more than half a century
Van Waveren still makes countless small and large steps between then and now. In its early years, the company often works on behalf of customers in the graphics sector, but due to increasing digitalisation, that work dries up. Fuels and chemicals do not dry up; its transportation is increasing
more important for Es & co. Because of these hazardous substances, a safety advisor must be appointed.
Marga seizes that task. She appears to be perfect for work in the transport industry. Maybe because of her background. “I did hairdressing school and wanted to become a hairdresser. But yes, with my father I earned three hundred guilders more per month as a minimum wager and I got a courier car. So the choice was quickly made. It meant that I regularly had to drive fast in the evenings, but that was part of it. My sisters later started doing that too. We all started with couriers.”
Here you find the entire article with interview in Dutch in Truckland Magazine.
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