Hiab hire and haulage in Bodmin
Bodmin sits at the point where Cornwall's two main roads divide, which makes it strategically the most convenient town in the county. From here you can be in Plymouth, Truro or Bude without doubling back.
That matters for pricing as much as for logistics: a job in Bodmin often combines neatly with something else, because a great deal of what we do passes nearby at some point in the week.
Access
Easy in town, harder on the moor
The town has good access from the A30 and the trade estates on its edges are straightforward to work in.
The old centre is a Victorian market town: narrow in places, with a one-way system, and workable with a bit of planning.
Bodmin Moor to the east is the real variable. The lanes across it are narrow, the weather turns faster than the forecast suggests, and the ground on the edges of the moor is soft far more often than it looks. Moorland jobs get checked before they get booked.
The work
Distribution, agriculture and moorland work
Because of the junction, Bodmin has more than its share of distribution and trade premises, and a lot of our work here is collecting or delivering something that is being routed on somewhere else.
Outside the town it is farms, moorland holdings and the sort of remote access that needs a crane rather than a forklift.
- Trade collections and deliveries around the town's industrial estates
- Loads routed on towards Devon or west Cornwall
- Farm and moorland work east of the town
- Containers onto holdings and building plots
- Plant moved between sites across mid Cornwall
The lorry
What turns up in Bodmin
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 Bodmin
- Will you go out onto Bodmin Moor?
- Yes, with the route checked first. Soft ground is the main issue rather than the lanes themselves — outriggers need something solid under them and the moor does not always provide it.
- Can you combine a Bodmin job with something else?
- Often, and it is worth asking. A great deal of what we do passes through this part of the county, so a Bodmin collection can frequently be added to a run that is already happening.
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
Wadebridge
The crossing point of the Camel, and the way into north Cornwall.
Cornwall
St Austell
China clay country — the most industrial landscape in Cornwall, and it still generates work.
Cornwall
Liskeard
A38 market town with an industrial valley underneath it.
Cornwall
Launceston
Cornwall's ancient capital, with the county's most workable edge-of-town industrial estates.
Cornwall
Newquay
Cornwall's busiest resort, with an airport and business park attached.
Or see every town we cover in Cornwall.
Enquiry
Get a price for a job in Bodmin
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.