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Same-day courier services in Thurrock
Thurrock is a borough rather than a town. Same-day collections across Grays, Tilbury, Purfleet, West Thurrock and Lakeside, each with its own access.
Same-day courier service in Thurrock
Tasito provides dedicated same-day courier services across Thurrock, including Grays, Tilbury, Purfleet-on-Thames, West Thurrock and Lakeside. Somebody asking for a courier in Thurrock could mean a distribution shed at West Thurrock, a port berth at Tilbury, a retail service yard at Lakeside, an industrial unit at Purfleet or a trade counter in Grays, and those are five different jobs with five different ways in. We collect directly from your premises at all of them, in a vehicle matched to the load.
So this page does one thing: it tells you which of them you mean, and what each needs.
The five places Thurrock usually means
Grays is the town centre and the trade and employment areas around it: Hogg Lane, Grays West, Grays South at Manorway, plus Thurrock Park and Globe Works just east at Little Thurrock. Ordinary estate and trade work, the easiest part of the borough. Full detail on the Grays page.
Tilbury is the port. Gate procedures, security, booked slots and freight deadlines rather than loading bays. Full detail on the Tilbury page.
West Thurrock is distribution and heavy industry, including the Lakeside Estate and Waterglade. Sheds, docks, forklifts and slot bookings.
Purfleet-on-Thames is industrial and increasingly production and regeneration work, including Milehams Industrial Estate. Full detail on the Purfleet page.
Lakeside is retail. Service yards and delivery windows set by the centre, not by us. Full detail on the Lakeside page.
Aveley and South Ockendon sit on the northern side with Purfleet Industrial Park and Aveley Industrial Estate, and East Tilbury and Stanford-le-Hope sit east along the river.
Why the distinction matters to your booking
A distribution shed at West Thurrock wants a curtain-side Luton that a forklift can load from the side, and a gate reference. A retail yard at Lakeside wants a smaller van inside a booked window. A port collection at Tilbury wants paperwork we do not have unless you give it to us.
If you tell us "Thurrock" we will ask which. If you tell us the site, the gate and the contact, the job runs cleanly first time.
Charges
Nothing in Thurrock sits in a charging zone. No ULEZ, no Congestion Charge.
The Dartford Crossing is the one cost here, and only if the job carries on into Kent. A two-axle van pays £4.20 one-off or £3.60 on a pre-pay account, free between 22:00 and 06:00, with rates set on 1 September 2025.
The bigger issue is the queue rather than the charge. The M25 approach to the crossing backs up and spills onto the A13, which means a Thurrock collection can be slowed by a crossing your job is never going to use. We factor that in when we quote a window.
What we send
One pallet in a short wheelbase at 450kg, two standard or three Euro in a medium at 800kg, three standard or four Euro in a long wheelbase at 3.3m, four standard or five Euro in an extra-long at 4.2m, six in a Luton at 1,000kg in a 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m space.
The curtain-side Luton loads from the side by forklift, which is what the distribution sites want. The box Luton has a tail lift for anywhere without equipment. Our fleet is FORS accredited and renewed for 2026.
The fleet page has every class and UK pallet sizes explained covers the footprints.
Other services we run in Thurrock
Multi-drop, which suits the borough better than anything because the sites cluster along one corridor, and fixed rates on recurring runs if it is a weekly route. Next-day courier where the deadline is tomorrow. Two-man delivery for anywhere with no forklift and no dock.
Our same-day courier service has the booking detail.
Thurrock questions
Which part. Thurrock is a borough covering Grays, Tilbury, West Thurrock, Purfleet, Lakeside, Aveley, South Ockendon and more, and a port berth, a retail yard and a trade counter are three different jobs. The site name, the gate and a contact is all we need to get it right first time.
Yes, and it is the best value we offer in the borough because everything sits along one corridor. Grays, Tilbury, Purfleet, West Thurrock and Lakeside can be sequenced on one vehicle so you pay the mileage once.
Yes, all three. Purfleet Industrial Park sits at Aveley, Aveley Industrial Estate is at South Ockendon, and East Tilbury runs along the river east of the port. They are on the northern and eastern edges of the borough rather than the A13 corridor, so give us the actual address rather than just Thurrock.
Because the M25 approach backs up onto the A13, which is our road in. A queue for a crossing your job will never use can still slow the collection, so we build that into the window rather than quoting a clear-road time.
No. Thurrock is Essex, outside both the ULEZ and the Congestion Charge. Charges only enter the picture if the delivery address is in London.
The curtain-side Luton, because it opens along the side and a forklift loads it straight on. Six pallets at 1,000kg across the load. Give us the gate reference and slot time or the driver waits at the barrier on your clock.
Three kinds, and they behave differently. The large distribution operations at West Thurrock run slot bookings and gate references. The port at Tilbury runs security and freight procedures on top of that. The retail yards at Lakeside run delivery windows set by the centre. Trade counters and smaller units in Grays are the ones you can mostly just turn up to.
Frequently. Our booking cut-off is 4pm Monday to Friday, but the port at Tilbury, the distribution sheds at West Thurrock and the retail yards at Lakeside all run their own hours and most of them finish earlier. Work from the site's deadline, not ours.
Send us the postcodes and what is moving. You get a price in seconds and a driver within the hour.