Carluke has grown from a mining and jam-making town into one of the larger commuter settlements in South Lanarkshire, helped by its station on the line between Glasgow and Lanark. New housing on the northern and eastern sides is the clearest driver of sweeping work, as lorries serving those sites share the A73 and A721 with through traffic.
The town is not only residential. Castlehill Industrial Estate and smaller groups of units house food producers, fabricators and trade suppliers, and the slopes down to the Clyde are still dotted with glasshouses, garden centres and fruit growers whose traffic uses steep minor roads. Surfacing and drainage repairs on the A73, which runs straight through the centre, add periodic work for highways contractors.
Carluke and nearby villages
An enquiry for Carluke extends to Law, Braidwood, Kilncadzow and Forth, down the valley to Crossford and Rosebank, and north towards Overtown and Wishaw. The town sits a little way from the motorway network, so allow for travel time, although operators based around Motherwell and Hamilton are not far off.