Hauliers and owner drivers
The people who carry the operator’s licence risk every morning. First, not last.
Why it exists
Mixers are specialist vehicles
Concrete transport has its own physics, its own legal duties and its own ways of going wrong. Drum speed, slump, axle weights, site wash down, site discharge and a wet load that will not wait — none of that is covered by a generic HGV policy copied from a tipper fleet.
BCTA is the UK’s only not-for-profit body dedicated to that work. It exists for hauliers, drivers, transport managers, manufacturers and the people who keep the trucks on the road — and it puts the people who carry the operational risk first.
The association is open to the whole concrete supply chain: ready-mix, volumetric, pumps and construction logistics. It does not issue operator licences or Driver CPC, and it is not a regulator.
Values
Association values
Integrity
Support those that carry the immediate risk. Advice that would stand up at the roadside, in the yard, in front of an examiner or a Traffic Commissioner, and in court.
Collaboration
Hauliers, drivers, manufacturers, plant staff, internal or external maintenance providers and the people who keep the trucks legal — one table, one set of problems, no sideline.
Innovation
Better ways of working for a specialist fleet: practical tools, better talks, better paperwork, and its own dedicated free CORE Standard — because compliance needs to match the specialist nature, and the risks and hazards this sector brings.
Excellence
A mixer is a specialist vehicle. The standard we work to should match the risk, not a generic HGV template with the drum ignored.
Who it is for
Built around the people who do the work
Drivers
The person on the drum, on the chute, on the site. Training and talks written for that job, not a classroom abstraction.
Transport managers
Policies, RAMS, handbooks and a compliance scheme that knows a mixer is not a tipper.
Manufacturers and the yard
The people who build, maintain and keep the trucks on the road. Part of the association, not a supplier footnote.
BCTA CORE
Included with haulier membership
CORE is the haulier-led voluntary scheme for ready-mix transport. Included with haulier membership. Issued to the firm. It does not replace the operator’s own duties.
About COREStill being written
Further pages will appear here once the wording is agreed.
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If you run the trucks, this is your association
If you run the trucks, join. CORE is included with haulier membership.