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John Dee joins the heavy mob
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• John Dee Transport is bucking the trend of an exodus from the heavy haulage sector by establishing its own heavy haulage division, John Dee Projects.
The company has been established to do "the really nasty jobs", says project manager Paul Barker: "contracts which require project management from the first to the last piece."
John Dee Projects has won three major contracts; moving sections of bridge from the Cleveland Bridge Company down to the site of the new Dartford Bridge; transporting 27,000 tonnes of steelwork to a big Docklands development; and transporting concrete.
On the Dartford Bridge contract, John Dee Projects is transporting bridge sections up to 36.5 metres long. Barker says the work does not involve a police escort owing to the sheer volume involved. "We John Dee: moving into heavy haulage sector.
would use up four police officers all the time," he explains. He has arranged dispensation with the 20 police forces along the route.
John Dee Projects operates a fleet of 15 vehicles including three new Scania 113s plated at 65 tonnes, and three 6x2 Seddon Atkinson Stratos, also plated at 65 tonnes (see Vehicle News page 11). The vehicles are used for heavy haulage and haulage at 38 tonnes.