Haulage company, Birmingham
Part loads, full loads and pallets on 7.5 to 26 tonne vehicles across Birmingham and the Black Country
Birmingham is about two hours from our Bradford yard, so a morning booking goes the same day and runs direct with no hub stop. We run 7.5 to 26 tonne vehicles with tail lifts on dedicated loads — part loads, machinery and pallets — and plan long runs to drivers’ hours rather than hoping they fit.
What needs hauling across Birmingham and the Black Country
The Black Country and east Birmingham are metal-bashing country: pressings, castings, forgings, fasteners, plating and finishing, feeding the automotive and aerospace supply chains. The loads are dense and heavy — crates of components, tooling, machine parts — and payload almost always decides the vehicle before volume does.
For a Yorkshire haulier the useful Birmingham work is the trunk: a load that has to leave a Midlands supplier today and be on a Northern line tomorrow morning, or the reverse. One vehicle, one driver, no hub, with the hours planned so the delivery window is real rather than optimistic.
The fleet, by payload
Weight decides the vehicle before size does. A dense half-tonne crate can need a 7.5 tonne even though it would fit in a van. Every one of these carries a tail lift, so a site with no forklift is not a problem.
| 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 |
Haulage prices from Birmingham
Road miles were measured by routing each city’s central postcode, not estimated, and the prices are what our own quote engine returns for that distance and vehicle. Ex-VAT, one collection and one delivery in normal hours; extra drops, waiting time and out-of-hours work are shown on your quote before you book.
| From Birmingham to | Miles | Luton + Tail Lift | 7.5t Truck | 12t Truck | 18t Truck | 26t Truck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 87 | £209 | £405 | £507 | £600 | £637 |
| Bristol | 88 | £211 | £408 | £510 | £604 | £641 |
| London | 119 | £271 | £493 | £613 | £715 | £761 |
| Leeds | 120 | £273 | £496 | £616 | £719 | £765 |
| Glasgow | 291 | £603 | £966 | £1180 | £1331 | £1423 |
Where we collect
Birmingham, Tyseley, Aston, Erdington, Digbeth, Smethwick, West Bromwich, Oldbury, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Solihull. Roughly two hours from Bradford down the M1 and M42. A dedicated run goes straight there, so the transit is the drive and nothing else.
Haulage in Birmingham — common questions
Is Birmingham a same-day run from Yorkshire?
Yes when booked in the morning — around two hours each way. We will tell you the real cut-off rather than take a booking we cannot make.
Can you do a return load?
If you have freight coming back the other way, say so when you book — a round trip on one vehicle is cheaper than two one-way jobs.
How do you price a part load?
On the vehicle the load actually needs and the miles it travels, quoted before you book. A dedicated part load costs more per pallet than groupage and arrives when we said it would.
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. The quote you get is the price invoiced.