Haulage company, Bradford
Part loads, full loads and pallets on 7.5 to 26 tonne vehicles around Bradford
Our yard is in Bradford BD6, so this is the one place where a lorry is usually a matter of minutes rather than hours. We run 7.5 to 26 tonne vehicles with tail lifts on dedicated work — part loads, full loads and pallets, loaded at your gate and driven straight to the delivery address. No groupage and no hub, so what you load is what arrives.
What needs hauling around Bradford
Bradford still makes things. The Euroway, Low Moor and Thornbury estates hold engineering shops, chemical formulators, textile and furniture manufacturing, printers and builders merchants, and the common thread is loads that are heavy, awkward or both: pallets of stock, machinery between sites, steel and timber to a job, finished goods to a customer.
Being a local haulier rather than a national network changes what is possible. A Bradford manufacturer who rings at ten can have a 7.5 tonne on the bay by eleven, and the driver who collects is the one who delivers. That is not a service level a groupage operator can offer at any price, because their vehicle is already routed to a hub.
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 |
Where we collect
Bradford city centre, Low Moor, Euroway, Bierley, Thornbury, Shipley, Bingley, Keighley, Idle, Clayton, Queensbury, Baildon. We are based here. For a BD postcode we are normally the quickest vehicle available, and for the Euroway and Low Moor estates that is a matter of minutes.
Haulage in Bradford — common questions
Are you actually based in Bradford?
Yes — Xeagle Ltd, 1 Huddersfield Road, Bradford BD6 1DH, company number 15823876. The yard is here, which is why a BD collection is usually the fastest job we do.
What is the biggest vehicle you can send?
A 26 tonne rigid, carrying up to 15 tonnes and around 18 pallets. Artics are arranged through our partner network rather than our own fleet, and we will tell you which it is when we quote.
Can you load at our bay and go straight out?
That is the normal job. One vehicle, loaded at your premises, driven direct to the delivery address, unloaded by the same driver. Nothing is cross-docked and nothing waits for a trunk.
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.