🚐 Collection & Logistics

How a collection works

1. Tell us roughly what you have. An approximate device count and type is enough to start. A precise inventory is welcome but not required — we produce the definitive one at our facility.
2. We agree a slot. Including any access constraints: floor level, lift availability, loading bay, timed restrictions, site induction requirements.
3. We collect. Unmarked, GPS-tracked vehicles. Equipment is signed for and chain-of-custody documentation begins at your door.
4. We process and report. Sanitisation, audit and reporting happen at our Sowerby Bridge facility, and your documentation follows.

Why the vans are unmarked

A vehicle with "IT DISPOSAL" down the side parked outside your office is an advertisement that valuable, data-bearing equipment is being loaded into it. Our vehicles carry no such livery. It is a small measure, but a free one.

All vehicles are GPS-tracked, so the location of your equipment between your premises and our facility is known and recorded rather than assumed.

Sites we are used to

• Offices — including town-centre buildings with timed loading windows, shared bays and goods lifts that need booking.
• Data centres and comms rooms — rack decommissioning, structured cabling removal, and the access control procedures that come with them.
• Schools, academies and colleges — worked around safeguarding requirements and, realistically, around the summer holidays.
• NHS and healthcare sites — where equipment may sit in clinical areas and access is tightly controlled.
• Restricted and secure sites — where staff vetting, pre-notification and site induction are prerequisites. Tell us your requirements early so we can meet them.
• Industrial and warehouse sites — plant rooms, shop floors and distribution centres, where the equipment is heavier and dirtier than office kit.

Coverage

Our own vehicles travel all over the UK on a regular basis. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are the obvious ones, but the M62 runs west as well as east — Rochdale is closer to our gate than Leeds is — so Greater Manchester and the North West are routine, and we run up into Cumbria regularly too. See areas we cover for detail on specific towns and cities.

The only real test is whether a collection justifies the time and fuel, which is usually a question of quantity rather than distance. Haulage is available on top for larger loads, but it is an option rather than the default — distance is much less of a constraint than it first appears.