Hiab hire and haulage in St Austell
St Austell sits in the middle of the clay country, and the scale of it surprises people who have not seen it: the pits and tips north of the town are a genuinely industrial landscape, and the industry that made them is still there.
Add Par, Charlestown, the Eden Project and a large town with a lot of housing, and there is a broad mix of work here.
Access
Good main roads, awkward clay-country lanes
The A390 runs through and the A391 comes down from the A30, so the approach is straightforward, and the estates around the town have proper access.
The clay villages north of town — the string of settlements around the pits — are a different matter. Narrow, built for the industry rather than for through traffic, and with a good deal of made ground.
That last point is the one that matters most. Ground in clay country can be anything from solid rock to sixty years of tip material, and it is not always obvious from the surface which you are standing on. On any unfamiliar site here we will ask before the legs go down.
The work
Industrial, construction and harbour work
Plant and machinery move steadily in this area because of the industry, and the sites are generally used to heavy vehicles, which makes them easy to work on.
Nearer the coast, Par and Charlestown bring harbour and marine work, and the ongoing construction around the town keeps steel and materials moving.
- Plant and machinery across the clay country
- Steel and materials into construction sites around the town
- Harbour and marine work at Par and Charlestown
- Containers onto sites, yards and smallholdings
- Deliveries into the clay villages where access is tight
The lorry
What turns up in St Austell
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 St Austell
- Do you work on the clay sites?
- Yes, subject to whatever induction and permit the operator requires. Industrial sites are generally the easiest places we work, because the access and the ground are already built for heavy vehicles.
- How far north do you go from St Austell?
- As far as you need — Bugle, Roche, the clay villages and up to the A30. It is all within a normal working day from us.
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
Bodmin
Where the A30 and the A38 separate — the most useful junction in Cornwall.
Cornwall
Newquay
Cornwall's busiest resort, with an airport and business park attached.
Cornwall
Liskeard
A38 market town with an industrial valley underneath it.
Or see every town we cover in Cornwall.
Enquiry
Get a price for a job in St Austell
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.