Back loads 2015
These are the 97 return loads we advertised during 2015, as they were written at the time. Each one was a lorry finishing a job away from home with an empty bed and a journey to make anyway. Nothing here has been reworded.
This is the first year we wrote the return journeys down. Everything on the list started and finished at the same place — a yard in Manchester — and the entries are the shortest in the archive because nobody was writing them for a website.
What a back load is
A back load is the space on a lorry that has finished a job somewhere else and is coming back to Manchester with nothing on it. Everything we deliver ends with a vehicle standing a long way from home, and the drive back happens whether or not anything is on the bed.
That is the whole idea. You are not buying a journey, you are buying the difference between an empty deck and a loaded one, which is a far smaller number. What you give up is the choice of day: the lorry goes when the job it was really sent out on is finished, not when it would suit you.
The part that separates ours from most return-load work is that the crane comes with the lorry. Return loads are usually offered on flats and curtainsiders with no lifting gear, so you need a forklift standing at both ends. Ours can put a load down in a farm gateway with nothing there but the driver.
97 return journeys, as posted
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Rigid Wagon & drag , 45ft Flat All available in Exeter now heading north west.
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45ft flatbed available in Greenwich this morning, looking for a load north west.
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Wagon & drag and a 45ft flat in London first thing tomorrow morning.
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Wagon & drag and 45ft flat available in Sutton London tomorrow morning.
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Wagon & drag to hire in Newcastle tomorrow morning.
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45ft flatbed to hire in south London this afternoon / first thing tomorrow morning.
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Wagon & drag / Hiab and a 45ft flatbed available in Basildon this afternoon.
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45ft Flatbed available in London first thing tomorrow morning.
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Artic available in Cardiff this afternoon.
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Wagon & drag available in Great Yarmouth this afternoon.
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Rigid available in Bath this afternoon.
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Artic Hiab available in Caerphilly this afternoon / tomorrow morning.
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45ft flatbed free in Coleshill Warwickshire now.
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8 wheeler rigid in Edinburgh now.
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Artic in Reading this afternoon.
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Artic Hiab & 3 45ft flat tipping in Watford tomorrow morning & Wagon & Drag Hiab in Chigwell London.
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Wagon & Drag tipping in Glasgow 7am Monday morning.
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Rigid in Durham now travelling south first thing tomorrow morning. .
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Artic Hiab heading south from Glasgow available tomorrow morning.
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3 45ft flatbed loads from Manchester / Liverpool area down to Midlands tomorrow.
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8 wagons rigid Hiabs & Artics tipping in Croydon Surrey Monday & 4 wagons same site Tuesday.
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Rigid Hiab in Portsmouth this afternoon looking for a load North.
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Artic/Hiab tipping in London SE18 this evening, look for load North for tomorrow morning.
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Wagon & Drag / Hiab tipping north of Inverness Scotland today looking for a load south.
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2 45ft flat available in Inverness Scotland heading south.
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Rigid to hire in Cardiff this morning.
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7 wagons flatbeds & Hiabs returning from John OGroats Scotland Tuesday Wednesday looking loads going South.
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Rigid available in Birmingham and an Artic in Oxford.
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Wagon & Drag/Hiab free in Bournemouth tomorrow morning.
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45ft flat free in Glasgow this afternoon.
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Artic Hiab & 45ft flat free in London now.
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Looking for a load to or from Bournemouth from Manchester
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We are looking for a load to or from Bournemouth from North West England.
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Looking for a load back from the Bournemouth area if anyone has anything.
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Artic & 45ft flat free in Kings Lynn this afternoon.
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Artic and Wagon & Drag Hiab free in London this afternoon.
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Rigid Hiab and 45ft flat free in London now heading North West.
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Rigid tipping in Plymouth this afternoon.
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Artic 45ft flatbed free in Dumfries this morning.
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Rigid and a 45ft flat to hire in Farnham Surrey.
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Rigid available in Exeter this afternoon.
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Rigid Hiab free in London this afternoon.
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Wagon & drag free in London tomorrow morning.
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Artic in Slough this afternoon.
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Wagon & Drag available in Southend-on-sea this afternoon.
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Rigid free in Dumfries this afternoon.
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Artic Hiab free in London around 12 noon today.
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Rigid for hire and 2 45ft flat free in Farnham this afternoon.
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Wagon & drag in Swindon this afternoon.
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Rigid available in London this afternoon.
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Wagon & Drag in Oxford.
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Wagon & drag and a 45ft flat in Penrith 12 noon today.
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Rigid in Glasgow this afternoon / tomorrow morning.
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8 wheeler hiab for hire in Edinburgh first thing tomorrow morning.
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8 wheeler hiab to rent in Glasgow this afternoon .
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Wagon & drag / Hiab available in Edinburgh 8 am tomorrow morning .
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Rigid Hiab available in Cambridge this afternoon.
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Rigid, 1 Artic and 5 45ft flatbeds coming free at Brize Norton this morning.
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Rigid heading south from Carlise.
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Rigid for hire in Edinburgh approximately 4- 5pm today
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45ft flatbeds & artic Hiab for hire at BrizeNorton Oxfordshire tomorrow
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45ft flats & artic to rent at BrizeNorton Oxfordshire tomorrow.
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Rigid Hiab free in Edinburgh approximately 5pm today.
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Rigid and a 54ft flat free in Bicester approximately 11am today
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Rigid and a 54ft flat free in Bicester approximately 11am today.
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Artic heading from Middlesbrough back to Manchester
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45ft Flatbed in Southampton approximately 11am today Wednesday 1st July.
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2 45ft free in Shrewsbury approximately 3pm.
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Wagon & Drag in Teeside today 4 / 5pm today.
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Low Loader free in Carlisle approximately 9am today
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Rigid Hiab free in Edinburgh 4pm today
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Wagon & drag in Birmingham 4pm today.
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Rigid Hiab free in Edinburgh 4pm today.
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Rigid available in Worksop this morning today.
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Low Loader free in Carlisle approximately 9am today.
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2 Rigid Hiabs and 1 45ft flatbed for hire in Glasgow
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Wagon & drag and 45ft flat in Exeter today.
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Wagon & drag in Maidstone approximately lunch time.
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Artics & Hiabs available in the Oxford area today.
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2 Rigid Hiabs and 1 45ft flat in Glasgow approximately lunch time.
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8 wheeler hiab available in Edinburgh this afternoon.
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Wagon & drag in Somerset.
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Wagon & drag / Hiab free in Maidstone this afternoon looking for a job heading north.
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Rigid Hiab clear in Gt Yarmouth this afternoon and 1 an artic Hiab in Croydon.
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Wagon & drag and 45ft flat free in Newcastle.
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Wagon & drag head north from London.
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Wagon & drag and a 45ft flat coming free in Oxford today.
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Rigid Hiab free in Banbury.
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45ft flatbed available in Grantham at the moment or first thing tomorrow morning.
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Rigid free in Glasgow later this afternoon.
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Rigid free in Glasgow first thing tomorrow morning.
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45ft flatbed and a rigid Hiab on route back to Manchester from Aberdeen this morning.
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Artic Hiab with step frame free in Avonmouth.
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2 rigid free in Glasgow & Edinburgh this morning.
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Rigid tipping in Edinburgh tomorrow morning looking for a load back south.
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Artic and a 45ft flat this morning in Beccles, Norfolk and also a rigid Hiab free in London.
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2 Hiabs clear in Bathgate.
Where the lorries come home from
Counted from the 97 loads recorded in 2015 — not from a marketing map. These are the places that actually appear in them.
- London
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Oxford
- Manchester
- Bournemouth
- Exeter
- Scotland
- Newcastle
- Cardiff
- Bath
- Croydon
Behind those place names are the same four runs we still do: the M6 south to the Midlands and the West Country, the M1 and A1 to Yorkshire, the North East and London, and the M74 up into Scotland. Where the lorries actually go has the fuller picture.
Tell us what you have and roughly where it is going
The load, where it starts, where it finishes and how much give there is in the date. If one of ours is coming back that way we will say so, and if nothing is we will say that too.
