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About Us

Lawsons Haulage Ltd., a family run business based in Cockermouth, Cumbria, started in 1952. It's immaculate fleet of around 50 vehicles and over 100 trailers are seen the length and breadth of the country, with a wide variety of cargoes.

The company specialises in Specialist and General Haulage, All Terrain Mobile Crane Services and Plant Hire equipment, with the full consultation and qualified supervisory services to accompany all jobs.

Lawsons is managed by Jim and Eileen Lawson, who started the business, ably assisted by sons Colin and Raymond and daughter Pauline. Raymond also manages the Plant and Crane Hire side of the business.

Although most of the haulage work is on specialist flat trailers, the company also has several tippers, carrying fertiliser, coal and gravel. More recently mobile crane and plant hire services have been added to the company profile.

The individually named fleet of mainly Scania, DAF and Volvo are regular participants at Truck shows around the country and have won many awards for their immaculate appearance and high standard of maintenence, carried out in their own workshops by their own engineers.

The founder of the company, Mr Jim Lawson in the mid 1950's with one of the first vehicles. In the early days the movement of farm animals was a large part of the business and this continues today with the recent purchase a superb new state-of-the-art cattle trailer.

Jim Lawson with the very first lorry to be tested at the vehicle testing station at Lillyhall in 1983 - it passed!

Likewise, when the first part of the M6 motorway, the Preston Byepass, was opened a Lawsons Lorry driven by Jim was the first HGV to pass along it.

For several years a popular event in Cockermouth was the annual "Lorry Pull", where local teams competed to pull one of Lawson's immaculate lorries along a measured course on the main street. There was even a children's team!