Andersons started business in the late 1920s with a one ton Morris lorry, buying and selling rags and bottles and then around 1950 they started to haul pit props from local sawmills to collieries. The pit prop ends were chopped up and sold for firewood and the sawdust from this was sold for use on public house floors. Towards the end of the 1950s, the company started selling bulk sawdust and wood shavings to poultry farms and chipboard factories, which they are still doing today, along with wood shavings in bales, which was started in 1975. These wood shavings are baled in the Anderson factory at Boness. Since 1975 the company has purchased solely Volvo trucks.