Hire a Flat bed courier

An open load bed with hinged aluminium sides that fold down on all three edges. With the sides down the bed is flat and open, so a load can come on from any direction rather than only through the back.

Anything that will not fit through rear doors. Long timber and steel, scaffold, pipework, plant parts, tanks and machinery on a skid. If the load has to be craned on or lifted off from above, it needs an open bed.

Up to 800kg, across two to three standard pallets. The vehicle is a 3.5 tonne dropside, so that figure is the load itself. Dense materials reach it quickly, so send a rough weight rather than just dimensions.

Loads are strapped and sheeted where the goods need it, but the bed is open by design. If your goods have to stay fully enclosed and dry from end to end, book a panel van or the Luton box instead.

Yes, from either side or the rear once the sides are down. Tell us at the booking stage if a forklift or crane is loading, and if there is one at the delivery end, so we allow the right time at each stop.

Yes. Site access is the thing to flag early, along with who is there to take the load off. A site that closes at four changes how we resource the job, so tell us the real deadline when you book.