In recent years, TJ has expanded its offering to deliver overnight services, which provides a range of benefits, both for ourselves as well as the clients that have a need for work to be carried out at night.
When Kevin Longland, TJ’s Commercial & Operations Supervisor joined the company in 2014 as a driver, it wasn’t long before he was offered a job in the transport office. His organisational and leadership skills shone through and he was soon asked to manage the Bristol operation that was just getting off the ground.
After relocating to Bristol, Kevin began to manage the night work for the whole company as part of his role. He said:
“Our lorries can be found anywhere from Gloucester to Brighton during the nighttime hours; I plan and manage those movements on a day-today basis to ensure all jobs get completed on schedule. We carry out a lot of remedial work, which allows clients to get on with other work during the day. We’ve done a lot of night work on the M4, M5 and M27 Smart Motorway improvement works, delivering asphalt and other aggregates.”
Night work is any job that is undertaken between the hours of 8pm and 6am, during those quiet, off peak hours when most of us are sleeping. At this time, we can undertake any type of haulage work, from assisting with night works, to transporting materials and providing muck away services.
As mentioned above, we can undertake a range of services at night, but the majority of our current workload revolves around assisting on road projects. Nighttime is ideal for carrying out this type of work as the roads are quiet, so closing them to undertake work will not not cause major disruption or delays as it would during the day, just minimal inconvenience.
The work involves transporting aggregates, often from compounds to the main sites, and planing off road surfaces and transporting the used surfacing off site. Where these materials go will depend on the client – sometimes they will ask for them to be taken to quarries, and other times to farms and country parks, where the materials will be reused for other purposes such as track surfacing.
Sometimes TJ is asked to take the materials away to their own locations and in these cases, TJ will take them to their quarry at Butser, near Petersfield, where it will be used to make TJ’s very own recycled aggregate, known as iBlend.
Find out more about Kevin’s role, the services TJ offers or get in touch to enquire about utilising our services at night.
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