A Garstang Type Ribbed Body

Garstang Truck Bodies Ltd were established in 1985 and have been supplying the haulage trade top quality tipper bodies for over 20 years. We are a one stop body shop that specialise in the manufacture of truck bodies & tipper bodies and provide any extras required by the customer including hydraulic or electric tipping gears, onboard weighers, air operated and automatic tail doors, sheeting systems, sign writing, spray painting and graphics.


All specifications of tipper bodies such as infill and fully air insulated bodies, ribbed, clear siders, bulkers and drop siders are manufactured.


Although the majority of our work is done in aluminium we can also build new bodies in steel.


Bodies are manufactured and painted to each customer’s specifications including Tarmac, Bardon, Hansons, Lafarge and Aggregate Industries.


We also excel in the repairing and improvement of any type of truck body and are happy to supply or repair any hydraulic or electric tipping gear, onboard weigher, air or automatic tail door as well as any make of sheeting system.


In addition to the above we also manufacture different types of trailers to the customer’s specification. More details of this can be found in the trailers / trailer body section.


We also build custom bodies for 'city' vans such as the Transit, Relay, Movavo, Dispatch, Trafic and Vivavo flat-bed or platform vans.


We keep a large number of items in stock such as aluminium or steel sheets and extrusions, bolts, nuts and washers as well as a vast array of body spares and fittings.


Other services include chassis straightening, general steel or aluminium fabrications and welding repairs to items such as garden gates etc. Insurance work is accepted


All work is undertaken and performed to ISO9001:2008 standards


Contact us for more details.

  • Tail Door Systems

    Air tail doors, manual opening 60-40 split tail doors, manual opening one piece tail doors, vertical split barn doors, compactor doors.
  • Onboard Weighing Systems

    Official agents to Vishay P+M Onboard, Maywood and Woodland weighing systems. Other systems also fitted.
  • Tipping Gear

    Whether it’s front end or under body we supply all types of hydraulic and electric tipping gears from suppliers such as Edbro, Penta, Harsh, Hyva and UTG.
  • Sheeting Systems

    All types of sheeting system supplied and fitted from automatic sheeting systems such as Dawbarn, Transcover and Harsh to our own manual centre pole, side pole or flat top operation system.
  • Shotblasting / Painting

    Cabs, chassis and bodies painted to your specifications.
  • General Aluminium and Steel Fabrications / Repairs