General haulage
Full and part loads across mainland Britain on curtain-siders and flatbeds.
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Your load, on time, every time
Northbound is a family haulier in Wakefield: forty-two lorries, our own workshop and a planner who answers the phone from 5 am.
42Lorries on the road
98%Delivered on time
38Years in Wakefield
120+Business customers
What we carry
Bulk and aggregates
Stone, sand and soil by tipper to site, quarry or yard, by the load or by the day.
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Tanker transport
Food-grade and general liquids in stainless tankers, cleaned between every load.
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HGV workshop
Servicing, tyres and test preparation for your own lorries, in our own bays.
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How a job runs
01
Tell us the load
What, how much, from where and by when. A call or the form, two minutes either way.
02
A fixed price
One price in writing within the hour. It does not change on the day.
03
We collect
The driver rings thirty minutes before arriving, and loads and straps it himself.
04
Delivered and signed
A photo and a signature reach your inbox the moment it is handed over.
Our own workshop
Every lorry we run is serviced in our own workshop behind the depot, by fitters who know each one by its sound.
That is why our fleet starts on a January morning, and why a breakdown on your delivery is something we read about rather than something we have.
It also means a spare lorry is always ready, so a job is never cancelled because one is off the road.
What customers say
SWSarah WhitlockOperations manager, Calder Garden Centres
Six years of Monday deliveries to our garden centres and I can count the late ones on one hand. When one is late, they ring before I notice.
THTom HallSite manager, Hall Groundworks
Twenty loads of hardcore in two days, every one on time, and the drivers swept the road before they left.
MDMark DenbyPlant engineer, Denby Plastics
A gearbox broke at four in the afternoon. Northbound had the part from Sheffield to our yard by seven.