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Back loads 2016

These are the 119 return loads we advertised during 2016, 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.

A lorry is rarely full on the way home and it is almost never full in both directions. The entries below are what went on decks that would otherwise have carried air back up the motorway.

A Nortons flatbed trailer loaded with strapped and wrapped packs of bricks
Palletised material is the most common thing on a return journey
In short

Space on a lorry that is already going

A back load is freight put on a vehicle that is already making the journey. Our wagons come north out of jobs all over the country, and a deck with room on it earns nothing at all between the delivery point and the yard gate.

Because the journey is happening anyway, the price is built on what it costs to carry rather than what it costs to travel. The catch is the timetable, and it is worth being blunt about it: you take the day the lorry is going. If your delivery has a date written into a contract, book a dedicated vehicle and we will tell you so.

Every one of our vehicles carries its own crane, which quietly removes the problem that kills most cheap haulage. There is no forklift to arrange at either end and no waiting for somebody else’s machine to be free.

How back loads work
4 January 2016 to 8 December 2016

119 return journeys, as posted

  1. Rigid Hiab free in Bristol this morning.

  2. Rigid free in Glasgow tomorrow looking for a load south going to Manchester.

  3. Wagon & drag in Birmingham.

  4. Wagon & drag in Plymouth this afternoon / tomorrow.

  5. Artic free in Bristol this morning.

  6. Rigid and 45ft Artic flatbeds heading north from Cardiff this morning.

  7. Rigid plus wagon & drag in Warwick later this morning.

  8. Low loader heading north from Walthamstow, London this afternoon/tomorrow morning.

  9. 2 artic available in London now.

  10. Wagon & drag free in Glasgow this afternoon.

  11. Rigid Hiab free in Lincoln later this afternoon or first thing tomorrow morning.

  12. Rigid free in the Birmingham area now.

  13. 2 rigid Hiabs free in London this morning, looking for loads north.

  14. Artic Hiab available this afternoon in Dumfries.

  15. Rigid free in Basildon tomorrow morning.

  16. Rigid Hiab and an artic Hiab available in Glasgow on Thursday morning Looking for loads back south.

  17. 2 rigid Hiabs for hire in Winchester this afternoon.

  18. 1 artic & 1 45ft flat free in Hereford tomorrow morning.

  19. Low loader available in Edinburgh this afternoon, please let me know if you have a load to come south.

  20. Artic Hiab available Tuesday afternoon / Wednesday morning in Inverness.

  21. Wagon & drag available in the Stirling, Edinburgh, Glasgow area tomorrow afternoon.

  22. Rigid Hiab in Spalding this afternoon.

  23. 45ft flat with Moffett available in Peterborough first thing tomorrow morning.

  24. Wagon & drag free in Fife late morning on Thursday.

  25. Wagon & drag free in Birmingham tomorrow pm.

  26. Rigid in Inverness available.

  27. 2 rigid Hiabs in Kings Lynn available this afternoon.

  28. Wagon & drag in Chelmsford available this afternoon.

  29. 45ft flat available in Shrewsbury this morning .

  30. Rigid available in Inverness tomorrow midday.

  31. Wagon & drag available in Maidstone tomorrow morning.

  32. Rigid wagon available in Liverpool now.

  33. 45ft flat heading north from Swindon now.

  34. Artic Hiab free in St Austell mid morning today heading back towards Manchester.

  35. Wagon & drag, 45ft flat & an artic available in Abergavenny mid afternoon today.

  36. Artic in North London tomorrow morning.

  37. Rigid and a 45ft flat in Bridgend tomorrow pm.

  38. 8 wheeler hiab for hire in Dundee on Mon 18th July afternoon / Tue 19th morning.

  39. Rigid in Glasgow this afternoon / tomorrow.

  40. Rigid for hire in Glasgow tomorrow morning.

  41. Wagon & drag in Middlesex around lunch time today.

  42. Artic flatbed with moffet free in Tunbridge mid afternoon today.

  43. Wagon & drag free in Glasgow tomorrow morning.

  44. 4 X 45ft flat trucks in Carnforth tomorrow.

  45. 1 Artic and 45ft flatbeds available in Bellshill this afternoon.

  46. Artic and a wagon & drag available in Aberdeen Friday late morning.

  47. Rigid to hire in Wisbech now.

  48. Rigid free in Dunstable tomorrow morning.

  49. Wagon & Drag heading north from Southampton on Thursday morning

  50. 45ft flat free in St Neots this afternoon.

  51. 2 45ft flats free in St Neots this afternoon.

  52. Artic in Chelmsford this afternoon.

  53. Wagon & Drag in Stanstead tomorrow.

  54. Wagon & Drag in Chichester this afternoon.

  55. Low loader free in Dunbar tomorrow.

  56. Rigid for hire in Fife this afternoon.

  57. Low loader and a step frame free in Birmingham tomorrow morning.

  58. 2 rigid Hiabs free in Middlesex tomorrow

  59. Rigid Hiab and a wagon & drag free in Basingstoke tomorrow morning.

  60. Rigid Hiab free in Newton Aycliffe tomorrow afternoon.

  61. Artic Hiab free in Dumfries tomorrow morning.

  62. 45ft flatbed available in Birmingham this morning.

  63. Wagon & drag & 45ft flat in Bristol tomorrow morning.

  64. Artic truck in Harrogate now.

  65. Artic wagon in Kilmarnock today.

  66. Artic and hiab in Glasgow on Tuesday 29th March

  67. Artic wagon in Kilmarnock on Tuesday 29th March.

  68. 2 rigid Hiabs tipping in Hounslow on Tuesday morning looking for loads back north.

  69. 3 45ft flatbeds for hire in Hounslow London late morning today.

  70. Rigid in London E14 this afternoon.

  71. Rigid in Eastleigh this afternoon.

  72. Wagon & Drag in Lewisham this afternoon.

  73. Rigid in Bournemouth this afternoon.

  74. Various Hiabs and flats available in Coventry tomorrow going North West.

  75. Rigid available in Birmingham.

  76. Rigid Hiab in Newport.

  77. Wagon & drag in Kilmarnock.

  78. Rigid Hiabs, Wagon & Drag Hiabs and 45ft flats free in Croydon throughout today & tomorrow.

  79. Wagon & drag available in Kilmarnock Friday.

  80. Artic hiab in Middlesbrough tomorrow.

  81. Wagon & Drag Hiabs and 45ft flatbeds free in Croydon throughout today & tomorrow.

  82. Artic Hiab in Cardiff this morning.

  83. Rigid in Birmingham 8 am tomorrow.

  84. Rigid in Braintree Essex now.

  85. Artic Hiab & 45ft Flat free in Bournemouth tomorrow morning at 9am looking for loads north.

  86. Various flats free in Birmingham this afternoon.

  87. 6 wheeler hiab free in Great Yarmouth Monday 15th Feb.

  88. Wagon & drag free in Gloucester around lunch time today.

  89. 8 wheeler hiab in Falkirk in the next half hour.

  90. Rigid hiab in Falkirk this afternoon.

  91. Rigid in Barrow this afternoon.

  92. Artic in Cardiff now.

  93. Rigid in Nottingham now.

  94. Rigid in Southampton now.

  95. Rigid in Bournemouth tomorrow morning.

  96. Rigid hiab free in Worcester this afternoon.

  97. Artic in North London this afternoon.

  98. Hiab for hire in Morpeth this morning

  99. Rigid Hiab to hire in Glasgow now.

  100. Artic Hiab available in Watford now.

  101. We have a wagon & drag & 3 45ft flats free in Cambridge available this afternoon.

  102. We have Wagon & Drag Hiab in Kent early pm.

  103. We have Rigid Hiab available in London today.

  104. We have 45ft flat in Derby tomorrow.

  105. We have Wagon & drag in Kent tomorrow morning.

  106. We have Rigid available in Eirth this afternoon.

  107. 1 45ft flat tipping in London today.

  108. We have rigid Hiabs & 1 45ft flat tipping in London tomorrow morning.

  109. We have an Artic Hiab and wagon & drag Hiab free in Bridgend around lunch time today.

  110. We have an artic hiab and 45ft flat free in the Newport area now.

  111. We have Artic Hiab available in Pontypool tomorrow afternoon.

  112. We have an Artic available in Dagenham tomorrow Morning.

  113. We have 45ft flat available in Selby this afternoon.

  114. We have an Artic available in Bridgend this morning.

  115. We have a rigid available in Bonneybridge Scotland this afternoon / tomorrow morning.

  116. We have an Artic available can heading south from Aberdeen first thing Monday Morning.

  117. We have a wagon & drag and a 45ft flat tipping in London E14 this morning.

  118. We have Artic available in Barking later this afternoon or first thing tomorrow morning.

  119. We have 1 Wagon & Drag / Hiab free in Bath this morning.

Routes

Where the lorries come home from

Counted from the 119 loads recorded in 2016 — not from a marketing map. These are the places that actually appear in them.

  • London
  • Glasgow
  • Birmingham
  • Kilmarnock
  • Bristol
  • Cardiff
  • Inverness
  • Bridgend
  • Bournemouth
  • Manchester
  • Dumfries
  • Edinburgh

The runs that produce those places have not changed: the M6 to the Midlands and the South West, the M1 and A1 to Yorkshire, the North East and London, and the M74 into Scotland. Where the lorries actually go has the fuller picture.

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