Hiring Guides
The wagon and drag: two vehicles pretending to be one
Several of our lorries are wagon and drags, and most customers have never heard of one. It is the answer to a very specific and very common problem.
Notes from the yard
What we have learned, written down
Real jobs, straight answers about what a lorry crane will and will not do, and the regulations that decide when a load can move.
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Job Stories
Canada Street, ten years on
A whole street of veterans housing, built in a fortnight by people who all gave their time. Our part was the least visible and it started long before the cameras did.
Hiring Guides
Grass is not a standing position
An outrigger can put over twenty tonnes of force through a plate the size of a dinner tray. What is underneath it decides whether that is fine or a very bad afternoon.
Job Stories
A brewing tank, a back yard and one way in
The tank was not heavy. It simply had to reach a yard whose gateway was built for barrels, which is the most common shape of job we do.
Company
How far ahead you actually need to book
Sometimes the answer is this afternoon. Sometimes it is three weeks, and the three weeks are nothing to do with whether a lorry is free.
Sectors
Stadium work happens when nobody is there
We have worked at grounds across the North West and beyond. Almost none of it happened on a day anybody was playing, and that is the whole character of the work.
Fleet & Specs
The 658, and why it is on more of our lorries than anything else
More of our lorries carry a 658 than any other loader crane. It is not the biggest crane we run, and that is exactly why it does the most work.
Hiring Guides
One lorry twice, or two lorries once
Two units to move and one lorry available. Whether that is one lorry going twice or two lorries going once depends almost entirely on the distance.
Job Stories
Lifting over a hoarding you cannot see past
A site hoarding is two and a half metres of solid plywood. Going over it is easy. Knowing what is on the other side is the job.
Safety
What the man in the orange coat is actually doing
On most of our jobs the driver cannot see the load land. Somebody else can, and the whole lift runs on what that person tells him.
Hiring Guides
Access decides the vehicle, not the load
The question is never really how heavy it is. It is where a lorry can stand, how it gets there, and how it gets out again.
Regulations
Clean air zones and what they mean for your delivery
A charging zone is only a problem if the lorry turning up does not meet the standard. Ours do. Here is what is actually going on.
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