Greater Manchester · Worked from Manchester
Hiab hire in Trafford
Trafford is close enough to the yard to be a half-day job and varied enough that no two bookings look alike: Trafford Park one morning, a garden in Hale the same afternoon.
The evidence
Photographs from Trafford, not from a stock library
Modular units craned into position at the cricket ground at Old Trafford in 2016. The ground is in Trafford, which is why the photographs are on this page.
Boom out among the stacks
The work
What we do in Trafford
Trafford Park is the industrial half, and it behaves like a large distribution estate: sound ground, room to stand, and a delivery window that somebody else has set. The awkwardness there is scheduling rather than lifting, so the more notice we have of the slot the better the day runs.
The residential half - Sale, Altrincham, Hale, Urmston, Stretford - is the opposite. Narrow roads, parked cars on both sides, mature trees over the carriageway and gardens that have to be reached over a wall or a fence. That is reach work, and the thing that decides it is how far the landing point is from the nearest place a lorry can legally and safely stand.
The whole borough sits inside the Greater Manchester clean air zone. The 32 and 44 tonne wagons we run are Euro VI, which is the standard the zone is written around, so there is no reason for a vehicle to be turned away at the boundary.
What gets booked here
Services we run into Trafford
Everything else in the fleet is available here too — the list above is simply what Trafford asks for most.
From the yard
What we bring into Trafford
Our own lorries, our own driver / operators, our own escort vehicles and UK-wide wide load exemption notices — which is what actually gets a lift done in Greater Manchester on the day you need it.
Common questions
Hiab hire in Trafford, answered
Do you actually cover Trafford?
Yes, and the photographs on this page are from jobs we have done there rather than stock images. Modular units craned into position at the cricket ground at Old Trafford in 2016. The ground is in Trafford, which is why the photographs are on this page. Where we can show the work, we show it.
How quickly can you get there?
It depends on the day and what is already committed, but the area is regular rather than exceptional for us. There is no minimum booking notice. Email with the date and we will tell you straight away whether it is achievable, rather than take the booking and work it out later.
What does a job like that cost?
It is priced by the job, not by the mile. Vehicle size, how far out the load has to be placed, the access and the time on site move the number far more than the distance does. Everything that changes a hiab price is set out on the cost page, and you do not need to know any of those figures to ask us for one.
Where do you run from?
Our yard is at Miles Platting in Manchester - one site, our own vehicles and our own ALLMI trained driver / operators, rather than work farmed out to a local sub-contractor we have never met. Trafford is regular running for us, and jobs are priced by the job rather than by the mile, so the distance from the yard is not a line on your quote.
A job in Trafford?
Tell us what needs lifting and where it has to go. You will get a real answer, including if the answer is that it needs a mobile crane.
