Hiab hire and haulage in Tavistock
Tavistock is a handsome Victorian-fronted market town on the western edge of Dartmoor, and the moor is the thing that shapes the work. Go east from here and the roads climb, narrow and become genuinely exposed within a few miles.
It sits on the A386 between Plymouth and Okehampton, so it is straightforward to reach, and we cover it as part of the same run as Callington and the Tamar valley.
Access
The town is compact, the moor is not forgiving
The centre is tight — the streets around the pannier market and the square were not built with articulated anything in mind — but it is workable outside of market days, which are the days to avoid.
Whitchurch and the edges of the town are easier and have proper access.
East onto the moor is where care is needed. The lanes are narrow and high-hedged before they open out, the weather comes in fast and visibly, and the ground beside a moorland road is very often not solid. We check moor jobs before agreeing a date.
The work
Agriculture, moorland properties and building work
Farms and moorland holdings are the bulk of it: machinery, feed equipment, water tanks and containers dropped into yards that no lorry can turn in.
Tavistock has also had steady residential and barn-conversion work, which brings steel and materials into sites down lanes where the delivery lorry would otherwise have to stop at the gate.
- Farm machinery and equipment around west Dartmoor
- Containers onto holdings, yards and building plots
- Steel and materials for barn conversions and renovations
- Garden rooms and heavy domestic items lifted over walls
- Work combined with Callington, Plymouth or Okehampton runs
The lorry
What turns up in Tavistock
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 Tavistock
- Will you go out onto Dartmoor?
- Yes, with the route and the ground checked first. The lanes are one issue and the ground beside them is another — outriggers need something solid underneath and moorland verges rarely provide it.
- Are market days a problem in town?
- They are the days we would rather avoid for anything in the centre. Tell us where the job is and we will suggest a day that works.
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.
Devon
Plymouth
The biggest city on our patch, and the one with the most varied work.
Devon
Okehampton
On the A30 at the northern edge of Dartmoor — the main road between our two counties.
Cornwall
Callington
Small market town under Kit Hill, in the old mining country of the Tamar valley.
Cornwall
Launceston
Cornwall's ancient capital, with the county's most workable edge-of-town industrial estates.
Devon
Ivybridge
A38 town at the foot of the moor, with the easiest access in the South Hams.
Or see every town we cover in Devon.
Enquiry
Get a price for a job in Tavistock
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.