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Roadhaulage in UK - an Overview by EdwardH smith
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Roadhaulage in UK - an Overview |
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Road haulage is all about freight transport. There are many transport companies in UK which are into the business of road haulage. The major services provided by these companies include transportation of goods of any size across the nation professionally. These companies have the required infrastructure as well as vehicles of different sizes. All these vehicles are well equipped with GPS tracking with real time tracking facility. Their infrastructure consists of warehouse or storage facilities, drivers that are trained upto level ‘D’and level ‘A’ security as per the transportation norms. Many of the companies are certified to carry waste material also. The variety of vehicles and trailer used include the skeletals, flatbeds, rollerbeds, boxes, tail lifts, curtain siders and more. Vehicles like tail lifts are used for the purpose of local delivery. Tail lifts are useful in loading and unloading goods and products which can be easily done by platform lifting and lowering. With the use of tail lifts there is very less risk of accidents and damage to the products. It can lift upto a capacity of 2500 kilos. The haulage companies do have to follow the rules and regulations specified by the European Union law which includes fuel emission within permissible limits, hygiene to be maintained with the handling of the goods, safety of the vehicles as well as the driver, driving hours and more. Incase you are looking out for a haulage company, there are a few points that have to be kept in mind before hiring one. Look out for various companies on the internet. Find out the services they provide,tail lift vehicles and also try to find out their previous record of handling the kind of products you are going to transport. Also, try to get a few testimonials from friends, relatives and colleagues about the quality of services provided by them. Once you shortlist a few of them, try to figure out the expertise of the company and if it is in the kind of services you require from them. Once you are satisfied with the track record of the company and you’ve decided to finalize one of them, the last point but the most important one is to read all the terms and conditions of the agreement that you are signing. Many a times the terms and conditions are tweaked in a way that they benefit the uk road haulage company in case of any kind of damage to the product or any other related mishap. This way you keep your products intact and yourself safe too from the stress of not getting genuine claim in case of any mishap during transportation.
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