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Cost of haulage

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  • 13-12-2019 1:39am
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    Waternotsoda
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭


    What sort of cost am I looking at for hauling concrete second hand cubicles 20 cubicles about 30 ton roughly. About an hours drive.

    Am I better of buying new?


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    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,137 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Waternotsoda wrote: »
    What sort of cost am I looking at for hauling concrete second hand cubicles 20 cubicles about 30 ton roughly. About an hours drive.

    Am I better of buying new?

    I assume they will have to be loaded and unloaded. How far exactly is the journey ?


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    Waternotsoda
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Waternotsoda


    Yes. 50km.


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    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,137 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Waternotsoda wrote: »
    Yes. 50km.

    Oh charges a euro a km from when he leaves our yard until he gets home. He has now started charging if he is waiting over an hour loading or offloading. Then tolls added on too if any


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    Waternotsoda
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Waternotsoda


    So €500


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    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,137 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    I'm sure you'll find someone to do it cheap. The point I was making is although you only want the load hauled 50km you'll have to pay for whoever to get there and home. Or it could be done as a back load.


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    Waternotsoda
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Waternotsoda


    Grand thanks


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    patsy_mccabe
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    What kind of cubicles are they? If they have legs going into the ground, then examine for rust there. If damaged then this will seriously shorten their lifespan. You could end up kango'ing them out again in a few years. Nasty job to face into.

    I know because I have to do the same with cubicles put in in the late 80's and they were new then.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    Waternotsoda
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Waternotsoda


    Cubicles for cattle to lay on. Concrete


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    Sacrolyte
    Registered Users Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Sacrolyte


    Is it slats you mean?


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    K.G.
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    Try contractor with low loader.its only an hour on tractor nowadays


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    Waternotsoda
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Waternotsoda


    Not a bad idea. Thanks


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    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    Haulage is a funny one.

    Costs can be savagely reduced by cutting the haulier's downtime.

    So if this were me
    1. Find a haulier with flat bed near either end.
    2. See if he can drop trailer for either the loading or unloading
    3. See if it can be worked in as a back load.

    2 is very normal.
    So say he's near you.
    He drives and sits to be loaded.
    Drops trailer at your yard.
    You unload at your ease.
    He picks up when it suits.

    So he's driven an hour each way and sat for an hour to be loaded
    Just became a €250 haul rather than a €350

    Back load highly unlikely at 50km

    Tractor and low loader unlikely to take 30t and if he does he probably shouldnt.


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