In the last forty years Van den Bosch Transporten has developed into a strong and professional logistic organization. Get to know all special events and important developments that have influenced the growth of our organization. Click on one particular year and see what was central in this period.

1945 This photo, the oldest in our album, dates from 1945. Even back then the Van den Bosch family was active as a forwarding agent.

1953 In 1953 Piet van den Bosch bought his first Volvo here you see him driving it along the Zuid-Willemsvaart.

1964 1964 was the year that Ad van den Bosch started the company. Very soon Ad took over the first cars from his father Piet, who was also active in the transport world. On 1 October Ad started with much enthusiasm with one truck and one employee in the job of driver/planner/bookkeeper.

1971 The three generations at the ceremonious opening of the garage at the Hoogven (Erp) in 1971 in a row. From left to right: Grandfather Piet and grandmother Janske van den Bosch. Next to them Ad van den Bosch and his wife Mia and on the right son Peter and daughter Anita. Both the present garage and our headquarters are still established here.

1975 To be able to guarantee quality, cleaning all the transport equipment was necessary and for this reason the first Van den Bosch Transporten cleaning street was taken into operation in 1975.

1977 To take advantage of the strong growth of transport of cattle feed products to the north of the Netherlands, a Van den Bosch branch was started there in 1977. This branch came into being by the takeover of transport company Thies in Assen.

1980 The ceremonious opening of a branch in Neer (Limburg) in 1980 by Peter van den Bosch.

1982 On 7 May 1982 Van den Bosch took delivery of its 100th Volvo. From left to right in the picture: Mr M. van Heertum, Mr J. van Setten, Mr A. van den Bosch and Mr M. Panhuyzen.

1983 Opening of the body shop in Erp in 1983.

1986 In 1986 an ultramodern cleaning station is openedin Erp. Later on this appeared to be one of the most important pillars of the success of Van den Bosch Transporten. This guaranteed a structural quality of our transports.

1987 28 April 1987. Ad van den Bosch gets the keys of the 200th Volvo of the company from the hands of Jan van Setten - Volvo NL.

1988 A centenary celebration: The combined ages of Ad and Mia van den Bosch is 100 years.

1990 15 September 1990. Opening of the Amsterdam branch.

1993 Van den Bosch organizes its own first transport days. A great success...

1994 By taking over the International Transport and Storage company Van der Donk b.v. at 's-Hertogenbosch in 1994, Van den Bosch Transporten also entered the world of fine-meshed distribution and container trucking. In that same year, as a result of a strongly growing demand, the first German activities became a fact by the start of our Gmbh in Salzgitter. In more than 10 years also this branch has acquired a prominent position in the transport of bulk products in Germany and even beyond.

1996 A substantial expansion of our tank transports was realized by our takeover of the Meulemeester en Zn in Tielt (Belgium) in 1996. A specialist in high-value liquid food transports.

1998 In addition in 1998 our multimodal transport is strengthened by setting up the rail/water terminal in Bergen op Zoom: Transfer Terminal Bergen op Zoom (OTB). With our own container terminal we were thus able to take even more care out of the hands of our customers in this region.

2003 To add more power to the strategy 'further growth in multimodal transport', Jumbotrainers was taken over in 2003. This company takes care of world-wide tank container transports from its branch in Rotterdam. In the same year branches in England and Spain are also started. With Van den Bosch Transport LTD and Transportes Van den Bosch S.L. we can even offer better service to our local customers.

2004 In 2004 the new Erp headquarters was opened.

2005 In 2005 Van den Bosch Transporten further specialised in carrying dry and liquid bulk products. The fact is, that this year, with a view to the future, it has been decided to hand over the distribution activities of the 's-Hertogenbosch branch to Abrex b.v. in Udenhout. From 1994 to 2005 distribution and the transport of packed goods took place from this branch.

2006 In 2006 Van Heur Transport has been taken over. As a middlesized player in the bulk market the firm is specialized in the transport of dry bulk products inside Europe, focussed on Spain. The takeover of Van Heur Transport means a substantial extension for Van den Bosch Transporten of its total transport capacity in the dry bulk marketing segment.

2008 In 2008 the decision was made to stop all the activities at the Ferrybridge depot, and to concentrate the remaining UK activities at our already existing Bournville / Birmingham depot. The UK import and export activities been moved to our depots in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Bournville depot is specialised in chocolate transport, and transport of chocolate related products in tankers.

2009 The recession did affect us also, and we made the decision to close our Hungarian company in Kazincbarcika. We sold a part of the activities, the remaining part of activities for Silo Tank are controlled from Budapest.