Every page on this site
Every page on this website, grouped the way the site is built. There is a page for each vehicle in the fleet, one for each type of load we carry, one for each town we cover and one for each year of finished work, so if your job is close to something we have already done there is usually a page about it.
Underneath the list are the HIAB manufacturer data sheets: the same PDFs every lifting figure quoted on this site is read from, free to download with no form to fill in. The XML version, for search engines, is at sitemap.xml.
Main
The pages most people start on: what we do, what we run, and how to get a price for it.
Hire
Operated hire. A lorry, the crane on it and the driver who works the crane, by the half day, the day or the week.
- Hiab Hire
- Truck-Mounted Crane Hire
- Hiab and Driver Hire
- Lorry Loader Hire
- Long Reach Hiab Hire
- Low Loader Hire
- Moffett Hire
- What Hiab Hire Costs
- Hiab Lifting Capacity Charts
- What Is a Hiab?
The vehicles
One page per lorry, with the crane fitted to it, what it lifts and how far out it will still lift it.
- 858 Hiab — 32t rigid
- 855 Hiab — 32t rigid
- 558 Hiab — 32t rigid
- 658 Hiab — 44t artic
- Volvo 622 Hiab — 44t artic
- Wagon & Drag Hiab
What we move
The loads we handle every week, and what each one asks of the vehicle sent to it.
- Container Transport
- Portable Cabin Transport
- Used Cabin Sales
- Plant & Machinery Transport
- Abnormal Loads
- Wide Loads
- Long Loads
- Steel Beam Transport
- Precast Concrete Transport
- Glamping Pod Delivery
- Stillage Transport
- Statue & Sculpture Transport
Haulage and storage
Work beyond a single lift: contract runs, nationwide deliveries, return journeys and space in the Manchester yard.
- Event & Festival Haulage
- Contract Haulage
- UK Nationwide Delivery
- Manchester Storage & Distribution
- Back Loads & Return Journeys
- 2026 Back Loads
- 2025 Back Loads
- 2024 Back Loads
- 2023 Back Loads
- 2022 Back Loads
- 2021 Back Loads
- 2020 Back Loads
- 2019 Back Loads
- 2018 Back Loads
- 2017 Back Loads
- 2016 Back Loads
- 2015 Back Loads
Areas covered
Where we run from, and the towns and cities we are in most often.
- Areas Covered
- Hiab Hire Manchester
- Hiab Hire North West
- Hiab Hire Liverpool
- Hiab Hire Birmingham
- Hiab Hire Blackpool
- Hiab Hire Derby
- Hiab Hire Ripon
- Hiab Hire Lancashire
- Hiab Hire Bolton
- Hiab Hire Blackburn
- Hiab Hire Preston
- Hiab Hire Stockport
- Hiab Hire Warrington
- Hiab Hire Wigan
- Hiab Hire Cheshire
- Hiab Hire Trafford
Portfolio
Jobs already finished, with photographs, arranged by year and by site.
- Portfolio
- Anfield Site Setup
- DIY SOS, Canada Street
- Glastonbury
- Helicopter Transport
- Manchester City Academy Works
- Photographs
- Videos
- 2026 Portfolio
- 2025 Portfolio
- 2024 Portfolio
- 2023 Portfolio
- 2022 Portfolio
- 2021 Portfolio
- 2020 Portfolio
- 2019 Portfolio
- 2018 Portfolio
- 2017 Portfolio
Company
Who we are, what we are audited and accredited to, and the terms the work is carried out under.
- About Us
- Meet the Team
- Accreditations
- Clean Air Zones
- Health & Safety
- Clients
- Reviews & Testimonials
- Nortons Tyres
- Trade Credit Account
- Privacy Policy
- Conditions of Carriage
- Sitemap
News
Written pieces on hiab hire and haulage, by subject, with a new one every Monday.
- News & Notes
- News & Notes, page 2
- Job Stories
- Hiring Guides
- Fleet & Specs
- Safety
- Sectors
- Regulations
- Company
- A brewing tank, a back yard and one way in
- How far ahead you actually need to book
- Stadium work happens when nobody is there
- The 658, and why it is on more of our lorries than anything else
- One lorry twice, or two lorries once
- Lifting over a hoarding you cannot see past
- What the man in the orange coat is actually doing
- Access decides the vehicle, not the load
- Clean air zones and what they mean for your delivery
- Two cranes, one load, and one person in charge
- Rigid or artic: which one turns up matters
- What a backload is, and when it saves you money
- Modular buildings arrive in the wrong order
- What a lift plan is, and what it is not
- How much notice an abnormal load needs
- What the 858 will actually do
- The first container off the bed at Anfield
- The six things to tell us when you ring
- Reach against capacity: the trade-off nobody explains
Careers
Driving and yard vacancies, what each one involves, and how to apply for it.
- Careers
- Class 1 Wagon & Drag HIAB Driver
- Class 2 Rigid HIAB Driver
- Commercial Tyre Fitter
- Cabin Fitter / Plumber
- Cabin Painter
Crane data sheets
The manufacturer sheets every lifting figure on this site is read from. Free to download, no form.
- HIAB X-HiPro 858 E-8 data sheet (PDF)
- HIAB 855 E-8 HiPro data sheet (PDF)
- HIAB 855 E-8 outrigger ground pressure data (PDF)
- HIAB 658 EP-6 HiPro data sheet (PDF)
- HIAB 622 E-6 HiPro data sheet (PDF)
- HIAB X-HiPro 558 EP-5 data sheet (PDF)
- HIAB 422 EP-5 lifting data (PDF)
- HIAB 700 XS specification (PDF)
- HIAB 600 lifting data (PDF)
- HIAB 700 XS brochure (PDF)
- Application for a trade credit account (PDF)
- Standard conditions for the carriage of goods by road (PDF)
- Application for employment (PDF)
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