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CW Russell

Haulage, plant hire, crushing & screening and aggregates for construction

  • Middlesbrough, Teesside
  • Established 1993
  • North East
  • Joining the group
People
76
Vehicles
85
Permitted capacity
325k t/yr
Operating sites
4
Customers
150
Service area
7,300 km²

CW Russell is a family-run Teesside haulage, plant and aggregates business — around 75 HGVs and 40+ machines providing muck-away, crushing and screening, earthworks and recycled aggregates to the construction industry.

What began in 1993 with Charlie Russell and a single truck is now one of Teesside’s busiest haulage and plant operators, run with his son Tom. From its Grangetown depot the business runs around 75 heavy goods vehicles — Mercedes-Benz Arocs tippers, bulk artics, grab wagons and STGO low loaders — and more than 40 items of plant.

Its Environment Agency-permitted sites recycle construction and demolition waste into soils and aggregates, and mobile crushers and screens work on customers’ sites across the region. It sells quarried and recycled aggregates, sand, topsoil and volumetric concrete, and delivers plant anywhere in the UK.

Inside the group, CW Russell provides the North East cluster’s haulage and plant capacity and feeds its volumes to the Scott Bros wash plants — a closed loop, with the two businesses’ sites only a few hundred metres apart.

Key facts

  • Founded in 1993 by owner-driver Charlie Russell with a single truck — now run with the second generation
  • Around 75 HGVs: Mercedes-Benz Arocs tippers, bulk artics, grab wagons and low loaders
  • 40+ items of plant including crushers, screens, excavators and loading shovels
  • Operator licence headroom for up to 100 vehicles and 45 trailers
  • Permitted soils & aggregates site at Teesbay, Hartlepool (2025)
  • New 11-bay workshops and a 1.3-hectare haulage yard approved in 2026

Milestones

  1. 1993Charlie Russell starts out as an owner-driver with one truck
  2. 2000Moves to the Old Fire Station site, Grangetown
  3. 2017Environment Agency permit for the Grangetown recycling yard
  4. 2019First mobile crushing permit
  5. 2020Second generation: Tom Russell joins as director
  6. 202330th anniversary — fleet reaches 50 trucks
  7. 2025Teesbay, Hartlepool soils & aggregates permit
  8. 202611-bay workshop upgrade and new 1.3 ha yard approved; fleet at 74

Sites & coverage

  • Grangetown HQ & recycling yard The Old Fire Station, Middlesbrough Road East, Grangetown, Middlesbrough, TS6 6TZ Head office, workshops, permitted recycling & treatment
  • Old Middlesbrough Road yard Old Middlesbrough Road, South Bank, Middlesbrough, TS6 6XJ Haulage & aggregate storage yard
  • Teesbay soils & aggregates site Land at Teesbay, Hartlepool, TS25 1XJ Permitted production of soils & recycled aggregate
  • Teesside and North Yorkshire; aggregates across the North East; plant haulage UK-wide, including Scotland