Many abnormal load movements could be considered low risk, whether they are regular, repeating movements or those with smaller load dimensions. But they still require checking and, with smaller dimensions, there’s only two working days to get the check done. That’s where we come in, taking away the daily drudge of notification paperwork and releasing specialist resource to focus on larger movements and those requiring a police escort.

Our specialist mapping holds detail on every self or police escort marker. These could be based on certain roads or load dimensions or a combination of both. If police escort requirements are identified, we will alert those in your police authority that book and manage the police escort process and advise the haulier of the requirements. For self-escorts, we will advise the haulier and ensure we are in receipt of their acknowledgement (usually be submitting an amended notification).

As we process and check every single notification received, we can provide automated threshold alerts to you. As you specify your threshold requirements, we will know to alert you about any notifications that exceed each threshold. You may want to be alerted about any notification in your area exceeding 4m in width or possibly exceeding 100,000 kgs in gross vehicle weight. Whatever, whenever you need to know, we are on it.

AbLoads Police is based on our advanced structure checking software, AbLoads. AbLoads has been used to check around 5 million notifications so far and is used on behalf of many local authorities to proactively protect their structures. AbLoads Police has been developed in association with The Metropolitan Police Service to manage and check over 1000 notifications each week.

We will also forward to you any pertinent responses from the notified authorities, such as restrictions on when the abnormal load can travel or self / police escort requests.

AbLoads Police software holds detail on every abnormal load restriction, whether mandatory or advisory, in your police area. Each notified route is plotted on our specialist mapping. If any part of the route crosses a restriction marker and the load dimensions exceed the maximum allowed, the haulier is advised to choose an alternative route. Restrictions can be date limited, based on a road segment, geographical area or even a gradient. Width, weight, length, height, general abnormal load, roadworks, an event or other.

If your police authority offers any type of dispensation to hauliers, we can manage the process on your behalf and ensure dispensations are reapplied for before they expire.

Our team at Cascade are all fully trained abnormal load specialists with many years of experience. This ensures that our abnormal loads service is provided in a timely manner before a movement notice period has expired even when it is a short notice movement.

Working within a time window of two or five clear working days to check notifications is a time pressured environment. As we take responsibility for the complete process, there are no more worries about covering staff absences for the police authority.