Taking in road planings

[Surgery]

I'm not sure you quite grasp this. By the time I came back to him asking for the lot they had sold it all. It has value with out doubt, they price the job relying on it now.

Recent m40 works - I was told motorway charged them £120 a load before it left the slow lane!

A lot goes back into the job for recycling with new tar.

Agregate in this part of the world is in short supply and is reflected in the price. The local guy's had 1000's of tons in stock but that's all dried up now, no one has any supplies stashed away now. Less road works too so less supply.

I am bringing hard core out from london which is 30 miles away I guess. It's just the way the market is at the moment. With the amount of building going on around here I can't see it changing. I will buy anything cheap and sell on if required.

I am knocking it at all , it's good stuff to put down but i think your having your leg lifted by being told its 120 a load on the wagon before it comes off the road , a neighbour bought some at a lot less than that further from the work where it's coming from than yourself , they have been bombarding farmers around here with phone calls trying to get rid of this stuff , if everyone said no I am not paying for it what are they going to do with it ? It should be for nothing.

We are having a lot of crush coming in just down the road with a digger grading it our end thrown in , there is lots of hardcore for not a lot around here at the moment.

 

[carlmac]

Sorry i kind of stumbled on this whilst looking for something else but just to clarify a few things with road planings:

We have 15 acres of land which is covered with planings - i run a haulage company and we park over fifty 8 wheel tippers and artics on them - so they are excellent as a hardstanding/track/road.

As i said i run a haulage company and we do a lot of work with the biggest Road planing contractors in the UK, when we price tippers for the job they want money back for the road planings which they build into the price they give to UK Highways, some companies obviously give a bigger 'money back' (rebate) to them which in turn means they can obviously price the job cheaper than someone who doesnt.

As a rule, we give around £80 per load plus VAT rebate to the planing contractor so every load we sell has to be at least that to cover our costs.

Depending on the distance of the tip from the job will also be relevant, if you are 1 mile from a job we could put tippers on there and plan for them to do 10 loads off the machine in a short space of time, if you are 10 miles away, i need to put 3 tippers on the job to do the same number of loads in the same time hence a higher price for the planings.

That said, we normally sell direct off the road for around £100 per load plus vat so we make a bit but not a lot.

I will post in the sale part on this forum but we are always working on the road planing jobs in the midlands on nights as we work on most of the major trunk roads - M6, M6 Toll, M5, M40, M1, M69 - mainly around the midlands. This will change as we have just purchased a Chalk Quarry Near Winchester and we will be expanding into that area.

If anyone has any questions regarding planings feel free to fire them at me, we have been dealing with them for 20 years so have seen them go from a waste which was given away to a substitute for Quarried stone hence the price rise over the years. Many Counties are recycling them now into tarmac to re-use on the roads they came off so i cant see anything changing - if anything they will become harder and harder to get hold of, even for us, so quarried stone will be the only option.

Thanks!

 

[Surgery]

Sorry i kind of stumbled on this whilst looking for something else but just to clarify a few things with road planings:

We have 15 acres of land which is covered with planings - i run a haulage company and we park over fifty 8 wheel tippers and artics on them - so they are excellent as a hardstanding/track/road.

As i said i run a haulage company and we do a lot of work with the biggest Road planing contractors in the UK, when we price tippers for the job they want money back for the road planings which they build into the price they give to UK Highways, some companies obviously give a bigger 'money back' (rebate) to them which in turn means they can obviously price the job cheaper than someone who doesnt.

As a rule, we give around £80 per load plus VAT rebate to the planing contractor so every load we sell has to be at least that to cover our costs.

Depending on the distance of the tip from the job will also be relevant, if you are 1 mile from a job we could put tippers on there and plan for them to do 10 loads off the machine in a short space of time, if you are 10 miles away, i need to put 3 tippers on the job to do the same number of loads in the same time hence a higher price for the planings.

That said, we normally sell direct off the road for around £100 per load plus vat so we make a bit but not a lot.

I will post in the sale part on this forum but we are always working on the road planing jobs in the midlands on nights as we work on most of the major trunk roads - M6, M6 Toll, M5, M40, M1, M69 - mainly around the midlands. This will change as we have just purchased a Chalk Quarry Near Winchester and we will be expanding into that area.

If anyone has any questions regarding planings feel free to fire them at me, we have been dealing with them for 20 years so have seen them go from a waste which was given away to a substitute for Quarried stone hence the price rise over the years. Many Counties are recycling them now into tarmac to re-use on the roads they came off so i cant see anything changing - if anything they will become harder and harder to get hold of, even for us, so quarried stone will be the only option.

Thanks!

Spoken like a true supplier

 

[carlmac]

Spoken like a true supplier

My parents run a dairy/cattle farm on Worcs/Glos border and have lots of friends in the industry so yes i'm a supplier but also know a little bit (but only a little) about farming!

 

[charlie_h]

Tarmac needed. Nr Banbury, Oxfordshire
In need of lorry loads of tarmac planings for our farm track. Please get in touch if you can help.
Thanks

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Ring Tommy at Hazel and Geoffries, they may be a bit out side your patch but they do a lot of work of the M40 which is the stuff you want.

should be about £120 - 140 a load of the crusher

 

[charlie_h]

Ring Tommy at Hazel and Geoffries, they may be a bit out side your patch but they do a lot of work of the M40 which is the stuff you want.

should be about £120 - 140 a load of the crusher

Thanks, they have a shortage at the moment but do some work our way.