Back loads 2024
These are the 7 return loads we advertised during 2024, 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.
What is worth noticing in this year is the spread. Single items, part loads and full decks all appear, because a return load is defined by the journey rather than by the size of the thing on it.
What you are actually buying
You are buying capacity, not a journey. The journey exists already: a vehicle of ours has finished a job away from home and has to get back to Manchester. What is for sale is the room on it and the driver’s time to handle your load.
Priced that way it comes out well below a dedicated movement, and both sides do better out of it — you get the delivery done, we get paid for a leg that would otherwise have earned nothing. The cost to you is that the lorry sets the date.
Every vehicle brings its own lifting equipment, so nothing has to be arranged at either end. That is worth as much as the price on a lot of jobs, and it is the reason people come back.
7 return journeys, as posted
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Wagon & drag Hiab tipping in Glasgow tomorrow afternoon looking for a load back south
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We have a wagon & drag hiab in Edinburgh tomorrow morning looking for a load south
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We have a rigid Hiab and an artic flat available in Blyth around lunch time today looking for loads heading south
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We have a rigid Hiab available in London this morning look for a load heading back north
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We have a wagon & drag and an artic Hiab available this afternoon in Bedford
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We have the following Rigid Hiabs looking for back loads: Rigid Hiab clearing Dungeness, Kent this morning looking for load back north. Rigid Hiab clearing Cleethorpes this morning looking for load back toward Manchester
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Nortons have a Wagon & Drag Hiab tipping in Portsmouth mid-afternoon today, looking for a load back towards Manchester & North West
Where the lorries come home from
Counted from the 7 loads recorded in 2024 — not from a marketing map. These are the places that actually appear in them.
- Manchester
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- London
- Kent
- Portsmouth
The four runs behind them are unchanged: the M6 to the West Midlands and the South West, the M1 and A1 to Yorkshire, the North East and London, and the M74 north. Where the lorries actually go has the fuller picture.
Ask what the space would cost
Tell us what you have and where it is going. We will come back with a price for the actual movement.
