Night work – what TJ gets up to after dark…

TJ Transport offers overnight transport services, providing a range of benefits, both for ourselves as well as the clients that have a need for work to be carried out at night.

What is night work?

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.

What type of work do we undertake at night?

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, we will take them to our quarry at Butser, near Petersfield, where it will be used to make our own recycled aggregates – Type 1 iBlend and 6F5 Crushed Concrete. 

Benefits of night work

For the client:

• We are very versatile and flexible; we’re able to give clients a very quick turnaround on services, sometimes delivering as quickly as the next working day if required.
• Our availability is high and we’re very reliable so whatever your requirements, we’ll be able to help.
• Utilising our services at night is very cost effective for us – and we pass those savings onto you.
• With little traffic on the road, everything will be achieved a lot faster than during the day.

For us:

• Enables us to utilise our fleet for twice as many hours of the day, making it very cost effective.
• Allowing us to expand the business whilst utilising existing resources.
• Raising awareness of the TJ brand, especially in the infrastructure sector.

Night work facts

• In March 2021, we recorded 445 night work shifts across our fleet.
• We started with two clients in 2014 and now have 15 regulars.
• TJ’s night work programme has been running for 12 years.
• Revenue generated by night work has grown year on year.
• We utilise our fleet of arctic, tipper and grab lorries for our night work.
• 90% of our night work is road construction work.
• We do a lot of night work on motorway improvement works – to date, we’ve contributed to projects on the M4, M5 and M27 as well as various A Road infrastructure maintenance and improvements.
• TJ also offers their night work service to the rail and industrial sectors.

Find out more about the services we offer or get in touch to enquire about utilising our services at night.