Hiab hire and haulage in Newquay
Newquay is two towns depending on the month. Out of season it is a perfectly ordinary place to work in; in August it is the most congested town in Cornwall and every delivery becomes a question of timing.
It also has the county's airport and the business park alongside it, which brings commercial work of a kind that does not exist anywhere else in Cornwall.
Access
The season decides everything
Between roughly June and September the approach roads, the town centre and everything near the beaches are slow to the point of being impassable at peak times. A job that takes ninety minutes in March can take most of a day in August.
We plan around it by starting early, and for anything with a fixed window we would rather agree a morning slot than pretend the traffic is not there.
The airport and the business park north-east of the town are the exception — modern access, proper roads, and no seasonal problem worth mentioning.
The work
Holiday parks, construction and the airport
The holiday and caravan parks around Newquay are a regular source of work: units, hot tubs, plant, containers and equipment that has to be placed on pitches with no vehicle access to speak of.
Alongside that is the constant refurbishment a resort town generates, nearly all of it squeezed into the winter.
- Holiday park work: units, hot tubs, plant and equipment onto pitches
- Out-of-season refurbishment materials and steel
- Deliveries to the airport and the business park
- Containers onto sites and storage compounds
- Early slots to work around summer congestion
The lorry
What turns up in Newquay
One vehicle: a 30TM HMF hiab with 10 metres of reach on a cheesewedge body, carrying up to 10 tons. It brings the load and lifts it into place, so there is no second machine to arrange and nobody waiting about at either end.
Questions
Common questions about Newquay
- Can you work in Newquay in summer?
- Yes, but early. We would rather book an eight o'clock start and be away than promise an afternoon slot we both know the traffic will eat.
- Do you do holiday park work?
- Regularly. Placing something on a pitch that a lorry cannot drive onto is exactly the job the crane exists for.
Nearby
We also cover
Some of these are over the county line, which makes no difference to us: we work both sides of the Tamar and there is no surcharge for crossing it. Each is labelled with the county it is actually in.
Cornwall
Truro
Our nearest town, five miles up the road from the yard at Feock.
Cornwall
St Austell
China clay country — the most industrial landscape in Cornwall, and it still generates work.
Cornwall
Wadebridge
The crossing point of the Camel, and the way into north Cornwall.
Cornwall
Bodmin
Where the A30 and the A38 separate — the most useful junction in Cornwall.
Or see every town we cover in Cornwall.
Enquiry
Get a price for a job in Newquay
Tell us what is moving, roughly what it weighs, and how far it has to go from where a lorry can stand. That is usually enough for a straight answer.