Construction and engineering courier services
Materials to site and production parts between plants, moved on the day with the offload agreed before the vehicle leaves rather than on arrival.
Two kinds of job sit on this page and they come from the same place. On site, a merchant is out of stock or a part has failed and a trade is being paid to stand and wait. In a works, a line is down or a customer order is late, and the part that fixes it is forty miles away on somebody's bench. Both are a gap, and the job is to close it with a dedicated vehicle rather than a network.
What we move to site
Steel, timber and boards. Plant and machinery parts. Site consumables and fixings, the unglamorous things a job stops without. Tools going out for repair and coming back. We load at the merchant, the depot or the yard, and we deliver to the gate.
What we move between works
Palletised production parts between plants. Machined and fabricated items going to the customer who ordered them. Finished goods out to a booked slot at the far end. Tooling going out for repair, which is the one most likely to be urgent, because the machine it belongs to is usually stopped while it is away.
Getting on to a construction site
This is where the service is won or lost. Tell us the access and the offload when you book: the gate times, the offload method, any slot that has to be booked, and who signs for it. That is what decides the vehicle, and it is what stops a van turning up that nobody can unload.
Where the site runs inductions, say so and name the contact. A driver who arrives without what the gate wants is a driver sitting at a barrier while your trade is still waiting.
What we send to site and works
For length rather than weight, the flat bed takes 2.7m at 800kg and loads from the flank, which matters when a piece cannot be swung round inside a body. Enclosed, the extra-long wheelbase gives 4.2m and the long wheelbase 3.3m. For palletised work the Luton holds six pallets at 1000kg in 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m, with the curtain-side version loading along its flank for a forklift and the box version carrying a tail lift for a site with no handling equipment at all.
The fleet page has every class with its figures, and UK pallet sizes explained sets the standard footprint against the Euro, which is worth checking before a pallet goes to an address with a narrow gate.
What we do not do on site
We do not lift, place or install. The driver delivers to the point agreed at booking and the signature is where our part finishes. Where something has to be carried into a building or up a floor, that is two-man delivery and it needs booking as such from the start, because a crew cannot be found once the vehicle is already outside.
We also do not pack or crate, and we do not provide lifting equipment. Where the offload needs a crane or a forklift, it is the site's.
What we need before a site delivery
Both addresses, what is moving, its dimensions and weight, and what happens at each end. The deadline as a real time rather than a working day. For a site, the gate times, the induction requirement and the offload method. For a works, the booked slot and the goods-in contact.
What construction transport costs
Priced on the road distance and the vehicle, with the price given before you book rather than after the job. Weight is not a factor and never has been.