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Multi-drop courier services in Wickford
Five miles from base, the shortest leg we run. Rounds from Shotgate, the trade counters and the Business Park, grouped either side of the railway line.
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Multi-drop courier service in Wickford
Tasito runs multi-drop rounds out of Wickford, covering Shotgate Industrial Estate on the eastern side, the trade counters around the town centre, Wickford Business Park and the smaller units off the Runwell and Nevendon roads. We are five miles off, going up the A132 or coming off the A130, which makes this the shortest leg anywhere on our network. What moves is trade and light industrial: fixings and fittings, plumbing and electrical stock, parts for light manufacturing, and palletised goods bound for London or up the A130 towards Chelmsford.
Five miles changes where a round starts rather than how it runs. The loading leg costs almost nothing in time, so a Wickford list is usually the front of a day rather than the whole of it, and the sequence carries on outwards from here with a full vehicle. We take round bookings until 4pm, Monday to Friday, and that cut-off is worth more here than anywhere else we work.
Two sides of the railway line
There is one thing here that nothing else on our network has, and it catches out couriers who do not know the place. A railway runs through the middle of the town and the crossing beside the station comes down often, at which point the queue reaches back through the centre both ways.
With the barrier down and the van third in a line of forty, five miles of A132 counts for nothing, so inside the town it is the crossing rather than the mileage that sets the order. We group the stops by which side of the line they sit on and work one side through before crossing, so the barrier is a risk taken once rather than four times.
Where the whole list is on the far side from us, we come in on a route that avoids the crossing altogether rather than taking the shortest road and hoping. Tell us the addresses and we will work out which side each one is on; that is what gets the within-town sequence right.
Wickford as the start of a round
Because the collection leg is almost free in time terms, a Wickford round is the natural opening of a longer sequence rather than a closed loop.
A collection here with drops in Basildon, Rayleigh or Chelmsford is one short run rather than three bookings. We pass the Rettendon turn on the way up the A130 anyway, and London sits down the A127 and A13 at the other end. Southend-on-Sea and Billericay are both within a few miles.
The 4pm cut-off is also more useful here than almost anywhere, because a late call for a Wickford collection with a London drop on the end of it is still achievable in a way the same call from the far end of the county is not. Short-notice work is realistic too, subject to what is already running.
Trade stock going out to a run of customers
A good share of the rounds we run from here are one collection and a list of deliveries: trade stock going out to customers rather than a loop of pick-ups.
That round is sequenced from the customers' goods-in rather than from Wickford. Say which customers hold a booked window and which take goods through the day, and the booked ones give the round its shape with the others fitted around them. Where the customer list is the same each week, it is worth holding as a schedule at a fixed rate instead of being rebuilt every Monday, and the vehicle and sequence then exist before the week does.
What we send and what fits
The round is sized on everything going on board and then on what the yards can do at each end, which on a Wickford list is usually a question of forklifts rather than space.
A single pallet travels in the 450kg short wheelbase. Two standard or three Euro fit the 800kg medium. The long wheelbase gives 3.3m and holds three standard or four Euro, the extra-long 4.2m and four standard or five Euro, and a Luton carries six of either at 1,000kg in 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m. That six at 1,000kg is the ceiling for a single-vehicle round.
Which Luton arrives follows the trade counters. Where there is a forklift in the yard the curtain-side version opens along the flank and loads quicker at both ends, and where there is not, the box Luton's tail lift takes the pallet off instead. On a round calling at several counters the tail lift usually wins, because one yard with no equipment decides the vehicle for all of them. Send weights for each pallet in place of a count, because the weight limit tends to arrive before the floor space does.
Each class appears on the fleet page, with footprints set out in UK pallet sizes explained. The whole fleet is FORS accredited, renewed for 2026.
Where Wickford work goes
London down the A127 and A13. Chelmsford up the A130, past the Rettendon turn. Basildon, Rayleigh, Billericay and Southend-on-Sea are all within a few miles and go on the same round.
Other services we run in Wickford
Same-day courier for a single urgent consignment. Next-day courier where tomorrow does the job. Two-man delivery for anything heading to a site with no handling equipment. Planning, routing and sorting with fixed rates where the trade round repeats weekly.
How a round starting five miles from base is quoted is covered on the multi-drop courier service page.
Wickford questions
No. Send the list and we will sequence it, including which side of the railway each Wickford stop sits on. Mark any customers with booked windows, because those become the fixed points.
It splits the town in two. The crossing by the station closes often and the queue backs up through the centre both ways, so we group the stops by side of the line and work one side through before crossing. That takes the barrier once instead of repeatedly.
Where the list sits on the far side from us, yes. We route in without using it rather than taking the shortest road and waiting at it, which on a five-mile run is the difference between fifteen minutes and forty.
Often, yes. At five miles a short-notice start is realistic here in a way it is not at the far end of the county. The class is the variable: a Luton or the refrigerated van wants more warning than a small one.
Yes, and it is one short round rather than three bookings. We pass the Rettendon turn going up the A130 anyway, and Basildon and Rayleigh are a few miles the other way.
Yes, and that is a good share of the work here. Where there is a forklift in the yard the curtain-side Luton is quicker; where there is not, the box Luton's tail lift handles it, and on a round of several counters the tail lift covers them all.
Six in a Luton, with 1,000kg spread over the whole load inside 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m. Send weights pallet by pallet instead of a count and the vehicle is confirmed before the round loads.
More use here than almost anywhere. So little time goes into the collection leg that a late booking here with a London drop on the end still works, where the same call out of Colchester or Harwich would not.
Send us the postcodes and what is moving. You get a price in seconds and a driver within the hour.