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Our Euro VI wagons meet the standard UK clean air zones and low emission zones set, so a job in Birmingham, Bristol or central London is booked the same way as a job in Manchester.
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Clean air zone compliant fleet
The 32-tonne and 44-tonne wagons we run are Euro VI — the standard every UK clean air zone and low emission zone sets for heavy goods vehicles. Book one for a job in a city centre the same way you would book it anywhere else.
The short answer
Euro VI on the wagons that do the work
Our artics, rigid lorries and wagon and drag trucks are Euro VI, our own rather than hired in, and we invest in new wagons continually.
Clean air zones caught a lot of hauliers out. A charging zone is a daily charge on a non-compliant vehicle, and it lands on whoever is running the lorry — which means it lands on the customer, usually as a line on an invoice nobody discussed beforehand.
We took the other route and spent the money on the wagons — and we keep spending it. New vehicles come into the fleet continually rather than being run into the ground, which is what keeps a Euro VI answer honest year after year. It was not a small decision for a family firm, and it is the single clearest reason to book a modern fleet.
The claim, in one picture
Clean air zone compliant, low emission, UK-wide
Low emission, cleaner future
Euro VI cut oxides of nitrogen and particulates sharply against the standard before it. Replacing a fleet is the only way a haulier actually reduces what comes out of the exhaust.
Where it matters
The zones a lorry can be charged in
Named, not priced. Charges, boundaries and vehicle classes are set by each authority and get revised — check the current figure with the zone operator.
- Greater Manchester
- Our home authority. The scheme here has been through several revisions; a Euro VI fleet has never been affected by any version of it.
- Birmingham
- Class D zone covering the area inside the A4540 Middleway ring road.
- Bristol
- Class D zone covering the city centre.
- Bath
- Class C zone, so non-compliant HGVs are chargeable.
- Sheffield
- Class C zone covering the inner ring road and the area within it.
- Bradford
- Class C zone covering much of the district.
- Tyneside
- Newcastle and Gateshead city centres.
- Portsmouth
- Class B zone, which still catches non-compliant HGVs.
- London LEZ and ULEZ
- The Low Emission Zone applies to HGVs across almost all of Greater London, alongside the Direct Vision Standard permit requirement.
- Scotland’s LEZs
- Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee city centres.
- Oxford
- A Zero Emission Zone rather than a clean air zone, covering part of the city centre. It works on a different basis again, and it is worth telling us if your job is inside it.
Scotland’s low emission zones and the London LEZ work slightly differently from an English charging clean air zone — some enforce with a penalty rather than a daily charge. The Euro VI line is the same in all of them.
The wagons
Euro VI at 32 tonnes and at 44
44 tonnes, Euro VI
The artics and the wagon and drag trucks run at 44 tonnes and they meet the standard.
32 tonnes, Euro VI
Our 8-wheel rear-steer rigid lorries, including the 858 and 855 machines.
What it means on your job
Three practical consequences
The vehicle meets the standard
Zone rules are written around the emissions standard of the lorry, and the wagons we send to zone work are Euro VI. A city-centre job is booked like any other job.
No vehicle swap
We are not juggling a compliant vehicle across the zone jobs and hoping. Whichever crane your load needs, the vehicle under it is compliant.
It clears your own reporting
Contractors increasingly have to account for the emissions standard of vehicles coming to site. It is one line on a pre-qualification questionnaire that we can answer without a caveat.
City centre work is where this bites
Clean air zones are, by definition, the middle of cities — which is exactly where a lorry-mounted crane earns its keep, because there is nowhere to put a mobile crane. A hiab driver / operator who cannot go into the zone without a charge is a hiab driver / operator who is expensive precisely where you need one.
Common questions
Clean air zones, answered
Is your fleet clean air zone compliant?
Yes. The 32-tonne and 44-tonne wagons we operate are Euro VI, which is the standard every UK clean air zone and low emission zone uses for heavy goods vehicles. That covers the artics, the rigid lorries and the wagon and drag trucks.
What does Euro VI actually mean?
It is the sixth and current European emissions standard for heavy diesel engines, mandatory on new registrations since the end of 2013. It cut oxides of nitrogen and particulates sharply against Euro V, and it is the line every UK clean air zone draws for HGVs. A pre-2014 lorry will generally not meet it.
Which vehicles are Euro VI?
The 32-tonne and 44-tonne wagons: the artics, the rigid lorries and the wagon and drag trucks. If your job is inside a charging zone, that is what we send.
Do you comply with the Direct Vision Standard in London?
London work is planned around the current DVS permit requirements as well as the LEZ. Tell us the job is in London when you enquire and we will confirm the vehicle against what is required at the time rather than assume.
How old is the fleet?
Modern, and kept that way on purpose. We invest in new wagons continually rather than running lorries into the ground, and the lorries are our own rather than hired in.
What are the current charges in each zone?
They are set by each authority and they get revised, so we deliberately do not publish a table here that would go out of date. Check the zone operator for the current figure.
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Working inside a charging zone?
Tell us where the job is and what needs lifting, and we will tell you which vehicle is going and what standard it meets.
