Jon Massey
Managing Director - Deep Sea Manager
Jon is our illustrious leader and we love him in the same way that a
child loves a father on pocket-money day.Jon's speciality (apart from
"letting there be light", communicating via burning bushes and such) is the long-haul sector of our business, deep
sea, worldwide airfreight, personal effects and project shipping documentation.
Jon says he has 30 years experience (which by our maths makes him 95 as we're
sure he was Johnny Weissmuller until he retired in 1976), although we're
not sure at what. Some say Jon is The Stig from BBC2's Top Gear ... some say he
drinks undiluted water, neat! ... we're saying
nothing until our lawyer gets here.
A keen golfer (he even has his own set of bats), he likes nothing better than
a few hours bruising the poor defenceless cows who dare to cross his path around
the Minchinhampton course.
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Christine Massey
Financial Director - Accounts/Office Manager
Christine is married to Jon (which most of us feel is deserving of a wage
in its own right) and takes incredibly good care of the company finances ... try
asking for extra Sellotape if you don't believe us.Well practiced in the
black art of Sage Line50 Financial Controller, she does things with numbers that
Professor Stephen Hawking can only dream of. Once, whilst trial balancing her
double entry nominal ledgerisms to an infinite decimal place (or something), she
actually discovered a completely new number which scientists now accept explains
life, the universe, and everything.
Hobbies include all things equestrian, giving birth to incredibly talented
children, and buying houses ... Jon's ok with the first one, pretty helpful with
the second, and has no say
whatsoever on the third (much like the rest of us).
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David Bray
European & Domestic Traffic Manager
Dave manages our European full load and part load services as well as the
majority of our domestic traffic. He is also responsible for our 'blue
light' express courier service whether the destination required is within the
UK, Europe or the rest of the world.In short, Dave takes care of things
quicker than Nigel takes off at 5:30pm .... which is faster than a fast thing from
Planet Fast! Apparently his coffee-making skills are above average so as
far as we're concerned he's got a job for life.
Dave also holds full National and International Freight CPC accreditation
which makes him an absolute wiz at permits & quotas, Carnet de Passage en
Douane, taxation, ATP, Customs documentation and procedures, driver regulations
(including tachographs and records), dangerous goods, conditions of carriage and
insurance requirements.
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Nigel Garraway
Warehouse Manager
Nigel Garraway is the chap who makes sure that your priceless 100-piece
Derby Crown dinner service doesn't arrive at its destination resembling a
less-pricey 500-piece ceramic puzzle, or that your £100,000 Lamborghini doesn't
reverse out of the container bearing an uncanny similarity to a Trabant after
spending a week
bouncing around on the high-seas in a box full of ball-bearings. This man can
build a crate fit for a king and what he can't do with several Pine trees, a
junior hacksaw and a roll of gaffer tape is nobody's business.
Nigel deals with all warehouse management tasks as well as export
administration duties. Export packing, loading and securing of containers and
liaising with our export couriers. He's also a dab-hand with computers and has
been known to kick one back into life when all else failed.
His interest in body-building also comes in handy on the rare occasion that a
vehicle can't be allocated as (legend has it) he can bench-press around 7.5 tons
with one hand.
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The Office
Where Angels Fear To Tread
Also referred to as "The Panic Station", many have entered, few have
survived. The Nerve Centre of our operation where everyone gets on everyone
else's nerves.There's Nigel, front-left, the one with the scary grin ...
either that or he's grimacing in pain from the several pounds of tuna pasta he's
just eaten. Jon's behind him giving his best "I might look confused but it's
just the medication I'm on" look. Dave's back-right pretending he's not bothered
about being photographed ... even though the desk is hiding two freshly waxed
legs and you might just be able to see the one finely-plucked eyebrow
nonchalantly raised in cool defiance. Alex is front-right engaged in his
favourite fitness regime ... horizontal keyboard press-ups - and Christine is
hiding out of sight around the corner, mainly just to disassociate herself from
this motley crew.
For anyone interested in obscure collectable art we at Gloucester Freight
(being so replete with manly muscle) are thinking of doing one of those "for the
ladies" calendars this year. The calendar will be free and sent out whether you
want one or not ... alternatively you can pay £5 not to receive it and no
doubt preserve your mental well-being to boot.
So there you have it, state-of-the-art IT hardware and software combined with
out-of-the-Ark personnel offering almost 80 years of experience in the global
freight industry between them. A more friendly and efficient bunch of experts
would be hard to imagine (unless you know the Teletubbies) and so trusting that
they even let the IT guy (me!) make all of this up just to give you a little
light relief .... so that's me off the Christmas card list then.
Speaking of the IT guy, we've included a large portion of the
wooden desk in this shot as it has far more personality and looks better in a photo
than he ever could.
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