Trucking Magazine – July 2019

OPERATOR PROFILE HAWKINS LOGISTICS

60 TRUCKING Summer 2019 http://www.truckingmag.co.uk

W

hen we first spoke to

Hawkins Logistics’

operations director,

Paul Hawkins, we

weren’t sure what to

expect. We knew the fleet already

boasted a truck with a beautifully

airbrushed motorcycle racing livery, and

now he was apparently branching into

the world of film! Deadpool, to be exact

• one of the latest instalments of comic
  studio Marvel’s successful movie series.
  The reasons, as Paul explains, are
  simple enough. “We did the first one
  when we got to 20 trucks,” he tells us.
  “My dad, Ben, and I both liked bikes and

Airbrush artist Andy

Freeberne is the man

behind the artwork

Hawkins Logistics’ latest

DAF XF530 is adorned with

airbrushed livery featuring

the latest Deadpool

characters – and it’s the

new ‘eye-catcher’ in an

already high-profile fleet

By Ronnie Hitchens

PHOTOGRAPHY KARL HOPKINSON