Company Profile

Our still present Managing Director, Jim Lawson, established the company in 1952.

Over the years the company has grown and diversified into the successful limited company we are today.

We now have a fleet of over 45 trucks, 4 with Hiab lorry mounted cranes, and access to over a 100 trailers. These comprise 42 ft flat beds, extendable up to 120 ft, low loaders, step frame, curtain side and tipping trailers.

As we have grown, we have added to our haulage fleet, six all terrain mobile cranes, ranging from 15 to 80 tonnes and various items of heavy plant.

We have recently purchased another livestock trailer, which was built to the highest specification for this type of transport.

Our business began locally, mainly transporting livestock and agricultural products, but we soon realised the potential market for other haulage and began to transport rail, pig iron and furnace bricks for the then British Steel Corporation. Over the years we have added dedicated trailers to our fleet for the heavy specialised haulage of rail and associated rail products.

We have grown into a national and occasionally international company hauling rail and other products.

We are equipped for and willing to carry anything requested, but specialise in carrying rail, timber, building products, tractors and heavy plant and in carrying bulk materials such as scrap metal, coal, stone, sand and fertilisers.

Some of the less common items we have been requested to carry have ranged from caravans, boats and trains to windmills and even a giant carved stone sheep!

We have a large workforce mainly from the local area, but we are currently also recruiting from futher afield as we expand geographically.

New larger workshops were purpose built built ten years ago to carry out in house maintenance and fabrication. This has allowed us to streamline the business and make us more efficient.

Despite an unforseeable future, our intention is to expand and prosper.