COMPANY HISTORY
Company opened and originally based in Vereeniging
Started with cross haul project for a major Durban based company
Fleet size increased to 4 trucks and moved Company premises to a larger site
Involved in the HIV-AIDS mobile clinics project
Assisted “Bright Kid Foundation” with the establishment of schools in the rural area
Successfully involved with Big Game Transport
Formally introduced Rigging as a Company expertise
Involved in the setup and relocation of all containers in the South African World Cup
Moved Company premises to City Deep, Johannesburg
Successfully involved with the Rock band U2’s stage movement and rigging
Involved with the yearly Secunda Maintenance shutdown
Successfully involved with the EFC Cage Fighting project, this is a continuous project
Involved first time with the “Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge” this is yearly project
Assistance in preparations of the state funeral that was held on 15 December 2013 in Qunu in the Eastern Cape province for Mr Nelson Mandela, we assisted in moving the broadcasting units
Heineken promo branded truck
Erecting large Billboards along N3 highway from Gilooly’s to Buccleuch
Emthonjeni Children’s Foundation relocating to new premises
New fuel tank installations at BMW S.A Roslyn
Transport of special steel for roof structure Mall of Africa
Moved Company premises to Alrode, Johannesburg
Moving of Mirage F1 from Hoedspruit to Kempton park for Euro space
Erecting large billboard next to N3 @ Mall of Africa
Tooth – Colgate Promotion – Moved from Sterkfontein to Menlyn mall
Company fleet has expanded to over 50 trucks
Jack & Slide – Botswana 4 x 150t transformer onsite Orapa for Arrowbulk
Jacobs Transport is working hand in hand with veterinary experts in a project to translocate elephants to a saver location out of harm’s way
Renovation of office in Alrode
Assisting Africa Pipe Industries with a 100km pipeline from Gaborone up north in Africa
Lock Down Transformer Break down
Jacobs Transport fell under the ‘essential services’ bracket during lock down which therefore allowed us to assist with an emergency rigging out of a damaged 47-ton transformer in Nelspruit, brought back to Johannesburg for repairs and then returned and rigged back into position in Nelspruit.
Botswana pipeline project
We were proud to be involved in the year long project of moving 18m long pipelines from Sasolburg to Botswana for ease of water delivery to rural areas.
Expanded our tipper division to transport chrome, manganese, magnetite, iron-ore, and pig iron
Assisting with transport and rigging of 13 storage tanks at Coca Cola Polokwane
Nandos Containerised Restaurant to Lusaka
Jacobs Transport was blessed to be involved with the 1st of its kind for Nandos, a containerised restaurant. We loaded, transported, offloaded and then remained in Lusaka to position 5x modified shipping containers into their designed restaurant state.
Assisting Cape town based company to transport Wi-Fi containers to Eastern Cape so that they can have free wifi for surrounding residential area.
Assisting with transport and rigging of 13 storage tanks at Coca Cola Polokwane
Implementation of a state of the art warehousing system to ensure that our in sequence warehousing facility works like clockwork.
F1 Mirage moved from Hoedspruit to Boksburg using our air suspension trailers.
Assisting with installation of manufacturing equipment and machines at the Ford factory in Silverton
Transportation of a Dassault Mirage F1 from Midrand to Wonderboom
60.7ton Transformer move for Citi power to help restore power to Roodepoort
Assisting in Clover plant move from Lichtenburg to Queensburgh
Afgri Agricultural display container road trip across SA
Assisted Clover project moving plants and helping with the new section of the factory
Moving army equipment to Durban so it can be shipped out to Mozambique to assist with the ongoing war. SA Army setting a base up to help defend Mozambique against ISIS.
Assisting a newly established small business enterprise set up a mobile coffee container at malls across Gauteng.
Displaying our vehicles and services at Electra Mining 2022
Start building project – new super hub in Wadeville
First multi-axle load to Ellisras
Moved to new premises in Wadeville
Opened Container Depot and 3PL Division in Wadeville
56 Loads – Railway Tracks moving From Kimberley to Hotazel – 18m Extendable Trailers
47 loads – 18m Railway Tracks ex PE to Bloemfontein and Kathu
Assist with road closures for the Bricks Summit in Sandon – 29 loads
Approximately 1750 tons of Steel Structure ex Carletonville, Rustenburg, Vereeniging to Two Rivers Platium Mine
120 x 18m Extendable Trailers used to import Railway Tracks moving From Namibia to Springs
22 Loads – Element packs from Booysens to Matimba
2023 July –Took delivery of 2 x additional 7 Ton Hysters