About us

3 generations of experience at your service.

• '22

  Van de Poel's first transport related activities take us back to 1922. Back then, that meant horse and cart.

  Grandfather Louis ”the miller“ ran a successful mill in Bouwel and took on the daily milk rounds, along with dealing in grain and straw.

• '60

  His son, Karel, took over in 1960 and brought in the first tractor and trailer, and later on, the first truck.

  Thanks to this agricultural business, Van de Poel gained a lot of international contacts. This built a strong foundation for the new business.

• '82

  When the third generation of the family, brothers Luc in 1982 and Wim in 1989 took over the family business, Van de Poel became a transport company.

  It started off transporting cattle feed and importing agricultural products from France but the growing demand for general transport and offered investments gave Van de Poel its name as a reliable reference.

• '93

  The changeover from Ltd to PLC and the definitive turn towards international transport came about in 1993.

  The transport of part loads and groupage as well as the storage and transhipment activities raised Van de Poel to the level of full logistics provider. The activities became more and more defined and specialised to the transport of general goods.

• '98

  In 1998, the company moved from Bouwel to the current location in Herenthout's industrial area, where there was also a possibility to store and transship goods in its own 12,000 square metre warehouse.

  In 2006, the company also expanded the fleet.

• ...

  The company's future is safe guarded by the fourth generation,
  which is already active within various departments of the company.