Hiab hire and haulage in Exeter
Exeter is where Devon connects to the rest of the country. The M5 comes to an end here and the A30 and A38 carry on west from it, and the trade estates at Marsh Barton and Sowton are on a scale that nothing in Cornwall matches.
For us it is the eastern limit of a comfortable day and a place we go regularly, usually for trade rather than domestic work.
Access
The easiest city on our patch to get around
Marsh Barton is enormous and laid out for commercial vehicles throughout, and Sowton on the eastern side is the same. Between them they cover most of what we come to Exeter for.
The M5 junctions make the approach quick, which is unusual for anywhere we work and makes Exeter jobs easier to schedule tightly than most.
The historic centre is the exception: narrow, with pedestrianised areas and restricted access, and needing the same early-start treatment as any old city core.
The work
Trade, construction and distribution
Steel and fabricated sections are regular work, collected from suppliers here and delivered out across both counties, often the same day.
There is constant construction in and around the city, and a great deal of plant movement because so many suppliers and hire depots are based on the estates.
- Steel and fabricated sections collected for delivery across Devon and Cornwall
- Deliveries and collections across Marsh Barton and Sowton
- Plant moved to and from hire depots
- Containers into yards, sites and compounds
- Materials into construction sites around the city
The lorry
What turns up in Exeter
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 Exeter
- Will you collect from a supplier in Exeter and deliver in Cornwall?
- Yes, and it is one of the most common things we do. Give us the supplier, the order reference and when it is ready, and we will collect and run it down in one trip.
- How far east do you go?
- Exeter is comfortable and we go beyond it regularly, out to Honiton, Axminster and the county border. Further afield is possible for the right job — worth asking rather than assuming.
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
Crediton
Mid Devon market town a few miles from Exeter, with a long main street and a busy trade estate.
Devon
Cullompton
M5 junction 28 town, and one of the easiest places in Devon to collect a load.
Devon
Tiverton
Mid Devon's main town, with a motorway junction and a long textile history.
Devon
Newton Abbot
A railway town that turned into south Devon's main industrial centre.
Devon
Okehampton
On the A30 at the northern edge of Dartmoor — the main road between our two counties.
Devon
Honiton
East Devon town with an unusually wide main street and a large trading estate.
Or see every town we cover in Devon.
Enquiry
Get a price for a job in Exeter
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.