The Swain Group are established as one of the country’s largest specialist logistics businesses servicing the construction materials sector. Operating from 9 sites  across the United Kingdom the building materials fleet offers an entire portfolio of services dedicated to the brick and block movements.

Not only can the group boast the largest flatbed fleet within the UK, but we can also offer one of the most flexibly of trailer configurations available anywhere in today’s market. This fleet services customers throughout the United Kingdom and operates solutions which are highly flexible and can move loads without limitations due to our fleet operating both days and nights and at weekends.

Highly customer focused our Building material teams have a depth of knowledge which is unrivalled within this challenging sector. Our fleet is FORS Gold accredited and CLOCS compliant.

Building material distribution (BMD) without limits

Mechanical off-load (MOL) operations are at the heart of our “BMD” solutions, regales of the fleet requirement, these highly capable pieces of equipment are available from our prime operational centres located in Rochester, Manchester and Woodville Derbyshire. This fleet is also supported by significant fleets of flatbed and curtain side vehicles, this helps to make our distribution capability within this sector stand out from the crowed when compared with our competitors’ capabilities.

With our dedicated construction fleet, we can offer a variety of trailer configurations:

PSK platform 13.6 & 9m options
PSK platform with 13.6 – 9m options

Flat bed Trailer
Flat bed trailer

MOL Trailer
MOL trailer

MOL Wagon & Drag
MOL Wagon Drag

Efficiency through innovation is a thread which runs through every element of a Swain solution. Our capabilities have been further enhanced by our investments in technology which brings visibility to the consignment journey and supports our desire to be at the cutting edge of KPI and service led reporting.

Our building material solutions have also been enhanced by our ability to offer yard and warehouse storage and forward stock locations.

Think Swains, think versatility

Think Swains think versatility, our traffic teams have the ability to embrace the very largest or projects to the most intricate of sequenced solutions.

The Swain Group have provided specialist transport distribution to the construction sector for over 100 years, the Group’s innate understanding of the building sector enables the business to embrace the diversity and the demands of this most challenging of sectors. Coupled with industry leading HS&Q & compliance practices supported by ongoing training from our inhouse compliance teams. The Swain group is a natural choice for those manufacturers and distributors of brick and block who seek robust efficient solutions. Contact us for more information.