The Boland family, steeped in history within the automotive industry. Dating back to 1926 as early adopters, they embraced the motor car as a means of transport that was here to stay, and the opportunity it presented.

National Vehicle Distribution was born. James Boland was one of the founding shareholders.

NVD Rosslare was opened providing storage and vehicle preparation facilities to OEM’s.

NVD Cork moved from the Ford factory and a permanent premises was opened at the Marina providing storage and vehicle preparation facilities to OEM’s.

NVD Baldonnell was opened providing storage and vehicle preparation facilities to OEM’s.

The Boland family became the sole shareholders in NVD and Andrew Boland took over as Managing Director.

NVD’s vision for full customer transparency was conceived. NVD Ringaskiddy was opened providing storage and vehicle preparation facilities to OEM’s.

An NVD Industry 1st. Bespoke Kerridge IT system introduced. Vehicle handling saw a 45% increase in efficiency.

Acquisition of CTL LTD. Customers can now avail of compound, transport and body shop services across our sites in Dublin, Cork and Rosslare, Ireland's three main ports.

A new Vehicle Preparation Centre was opened on site in NVD Baldonnell. Providing customers with a One Stop Shop.

Another industry 1st.

Narrow Band scanners and EDI integrations with customers were introduced. This facilitated a 35% reduction in admin time for our customer base.

Customer data automation. NVD introduced the automation of key customer information, no more manual data entry.

1st in the industry to introduce GSM scanners to the operation.

Paperless deliveries introduced facilitating customers to invoice on delivery instantly improving cash flow.

Dealer deliveries, 13% more efficient. Fundamental processes change to allow transport to drive production throughput in both compounds and workshops.

Data capture improvements. Linear barcodes replaced by 2D barcodes to allow more detail to be captured and transmitted.

15% efficiency improvement at peak seasons. Online dealer to dealer booking system launched.

Greater delivery visibility for dealerships via proof of delivery email for each vehicle delivered including the ability to note any issues.

Pre delivery dispatch email introduced to enhance visibility to dealerships. They now had clear visibility of when a vehicle would be delivered.

1 Operational Function. Another fundamental change was made. The previously separate systems of 3 compounds, 2 workshops and 1 transport department became 1 operational function.

Vehicle Tracking. Each transporter was fitted with a telematics system. The purpose was to increase efficiency with a vision to allow further customer tracking to be developed.

Leveraged the utility of smartphones. Another NVD first as GSM scanners were replaced by smartphones to allow all communication be handled by one device.

Customer KPIs. Monthly KPI packs introduced to show performance levels achieved against previous months activities versus service level agreements.

Business Intelligence reporting introduced to the transport department for pre and post planning analysis.

Marine repairs 60% faster! Damage PDF annotation software introduced at ports to replace the paper based damage notification system. The process for handling marine damage repair is now 60% faster than before.

Driver churn reduced by 88%. New driver recruitment and training model introduced.

Inform - Best in class integrated system introduced.

New Vehicle Preparation Centre opened in Baldonnell.

Major system update, Softworks HR System, Sage Accounting, Annual Leave System.

2017 Large Company Category Winner (European Transport Safety Council - PRAISE Award).
2017 Company Driver Safety Award (Brake Fleet Safety Awards).

Alliance OEM contract secured in the UK.

2018 TruckSafe Audit (Gold Level)
2018 Finished Vehicle Logistics High Performance Award (Automotive Logistics Awards - Europe)

85% Automation of NVD loads. Flow concepts was established to deliver an automated load-building platform for NVD, with consideration for load profiling and measurement, route optimisation and least-cost solutions.

2019 Transport Company of the Year (Irish Transport & Logistics Awards).
2019 Supplier & Collaboration Award (Irish Transport & Logistics Awards).

Dealer Tracking App Launched.

New compound in Kill Co Kildare operational.

Swindon UK truck parking facility operational.

Real-Time Data. Development and implementation of real-time P&L within the Inform CPS system.

New Southampton vehicle compound operational.

Business expansion.
New Workshop Facility in Southampton operational February 2021.

New Truck parking facility in Birtley UK operational September 2021.

Harris contract secured in the UK.

New Bristol workshop and compound facility operational June 2022.

Ringaskiddy workshop operational in May 2022.

CAFCO Acquisition April 2023.

Opening of HGV workshop in Birtley UK October 2023.

DFSK, Ora, and Fisker contracts secured in the UK.

The Southampton facility moved to a new compound and workshop in July 2023.