Back loads 2023
These are the 5 return loads we advertised during 2023, 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 a good year to read if you have never used a return load before. The entries are detailed enough to show what actually suits one, and what plainly does not.
Back load or dedicated lorry
A dedicated lorry is sent out for your load. A back load is your load put on a lorry that is already coming back. That single difference is where the whole saving comes from and where the whole compromise sits.
On a dedicated job everything is arranged around your delivery: the vehicle, the day, the time of arrival. On a return load the vehicle has already done its work, and yours goes on as it heads home. It suits anybody who can wait until we are passing, and it suits nobody who cannot.
The one thing that does not change between the two is the crane. Every vehicle carries one, so the loading and unloading is ours to solve on a return load exactly as it is on a dedicated one.
5 return journeys, as posted
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Wagon & drag Hiab tipping in Paisley this morning looking for a delivery back south.
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Wagon & drag Hiab leaving London now heading north towards Manchester
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Where the lorries come home from
Counted from all 331 loads in the archive rather than from 2023 alone, because 2023 has too few entries to summarise on its own. These are the places that actually appear in a decade of postings.
- London
- Glasgow
- Manchester
- Edinburgh
- Birmingham
- Oxford
- Bristol
- Cardiff
- Southampton
- Dumfries
- Inverness
- Scotland
The routes underneath are the usual four: the M6 corridor 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.
Not sure which one you need?
Tell us what you have, where it is going and the deadline. If a return load will not make your date we will say so straight away rather than let you wait for one.
