Haulage company, West Yorkshire and UK-wide
Part loads, full loads and pallets on 7.5 to 26 tonne vehicles with tail lifts
We are a Bradford-based haulier running 7.5, 12, 18 and 26 tonne vehicles, every one with a tail lift, on dedicated work only. Your load, your vehicle, loaded at your gate and driven straight to the delivery address — no groupage, no hub, no trailer shared with somebody else’s freight. Part loads and full loads, priced on the miles rather than a tariff, with the price you are quoted being the price invoiced.
When a haulier beats a pallet network
A pallet network is cheaper per pallet and, for ordinary stock moving on an ordinary timescale, it is the right answer. We will tell you that rather than take the job. Where it stops working is the point at which your load is no longer ordinary.
- Over-height, out-of-gauge or badly stacked pallets a network tariff rejects.
- Fragile or top-heavy freight that will not survive mechanical handling and double stacking.
- Single heavy items where payload, not volume, decides the vehicle.
- Deliveries to a site with no forklift, where a tail lift is the only way the load gets off.
- Anything urgent enough that overnight trunking and a next-day window is a day too slow.
- Loads with a UN number on the label, which most network tariffs exclude outright.
The fleet, by payload
Weight decides the vehicle before size does. Every one of these carries a tail lift.
| Vehicle | Payload | Pallets | Load space |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luton + Tail Lift | 1 t | 6 | 4m × 2m × 2m |
| 7.5t Truck | 2.5 t | 10 | 6m × 2.4m × 2.4m |
| 12t Truck | 5.8 t | 14 | 7m × 2.4m × 2.4m |
| 18t Truck | 9.5 t | 16 | 8m × 2.4m × 2.4m |
| 26t Truck | 15 t | 18 | 8.2m × 2.5m × 2.5m |
Articulated work is arranged through our partner network rather than our own fleet, and we will tell you which it is when we quote.
Haulage by town
Common questions
What do you need to know before quoting a haulage job?
Five things, and they settle almost everything: the weight, the footprint and height, how many pallets or items, how it is being loaded and unloaded at each end, and whether either site has a forklift. A job with no forklift at delivery needs a tail lift and a pram truck, which changes the vehicle and the price. Guessing at these is how a lorry turns up that cannot do the job.
What size vehicles do you run?
Luton with a tail lift (around 1 tonne, 6 pallets), 7.5 tonne (2.5 tonnes, 10 pallets), 12 tonne (5.8 tonnes, 14 pallets), 18 tonne (9.5 tonnes, 16 pallets) and 26 tonne (15 tonnes, 18 pallets). Artics are arranged through our partner network rather than our own fleet.
Can you deliver where there is no forklift?
Yes, with a tail lift from the Luton upwards. Tell us at booking that the delivery site has no handling equipment and we will send a vehicle that can unload on its own. It is the single most common reason a haulage delivery fails on arrival.
What about drivers’ hours on a long run?
We plan to the legal limits rather than hoping. If a run will not fit inside one shift we quote it as a two-day job up front and say so. The alternative is a driver running out of hours on your delivery, which costs you the day anyway and costs us the licence.
Do you route for lorries or just use a satnav?
Larger vehicles are routed for weight limits, low bridges and width restrictions, not by car satnav. That matters more than people expect around old mill towns and canal bridges in West Yorkshire, where a 26 tonne cannot follow the obvious road.
Dedicated or groupage?
Everything we run is dedicated — your load, your vehicle, straight there. Groupage is cheaper per pallet and slower, and it means your freight shares a trailer and gets handled at a hub. If your load is fragile, urgent, awkward or has been refused by a pallet network, dedicated is usually the only thing that actually works.
Weight, pallets, and whether there is a forklift
Those three and the two postcodes are all we need to price it on the call.