Grab Lorry Hire in Dorset

A grab lorry is a tipper truck that carries its own hydraulic loading arm. The operator parks beside your waste, lowers the stabiliser legs, and uses a clamshell bucket to lift the material straight into the body of the lorry. There is no skip to fill and nobody has to barrow anything up a ramp.

Quick Skips runs eight-wheel grab lorries from its yard at Cogdean Industrial Estate in Corfe Mullen. Each one takes up to 16 tonnes of material at a time, which is typically twice what a conventional builder’s skip will hold.

What you get with every booking

• An eight-wheel grab lorry and a trained operator who does all the loading
• Up to 16 tonnes of soil, hardcore, green waste or building waste in one visit
• A registered upper tier waste carrier (CBDU604752), so your waste is moved legally
• Vehicle tracking across the fleet and paperless tickets on the driver’s tablet
• Waste taken away for sorting, with more than 70% of what Quick Skips handles recycled

Will a grab lorry fit? An access checklist

Most collections are done from the road, with the arm reaching over to the pile. Before you book, have a quick look at the points below. If you are unsure about any of them, send a couple of photos on WhatsApp and the office will tell you whether it works.

Width

An eight-wheel lorry is about 2.5 metres wide. It needs a clear, firm approach with no tight turns, and no width or weight restrictions on the way in.

Ground

A loaded eight-wheeler can weigh up to 32 tonnes. It works from the road or from hardstanding built for lorries, not from lawns, soft verges or ordinary block paving.

Reach

The arm will lift over low walls, fences and hedges. Tell us how far the pile is from where the lorry can stand, and what is in between.

Overhead

Look up. Phone lines, power cables and overhanging branches above the pile or the parking spot can stop the arm working safely.

The pile

Keep the waste loose, in one place and on your own land where you can. Bagged waste, long timbers and anything tangled in fencing slows loading down.

What the lorry is used for

Grab lorries earn their keep on jobs that produce heavy, loose material in quantity: footings and extensions, driveway dig-outs, garden levelling, demolition rubble and site strips. The same lorries also deliver sand, topsoil and other aggregates, so a single supplier can bring material in and take muck away.

For a few bags of rubbish or a single room clear-out a grab lorry is more than you need. Quick Skips also offers skips, grab bags and a man with a van service through its main website.