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Same-day courier services in Wickford
Five miles from our Basildon base, the shortest run we do. Same-day collections from Shotgate and the Wickford trade counters.
Same-day courier service in Wickford
Tasito provides dedicated same-day courier services across Wickford, including Shotgate Industrial Estate, the trade counters around the town centre, Wickford Business Park and the smaller units off the Runwell and Nevendon roads. This is trade and light industrial work, fixings, fittings, plumbing and electrical supply, collected directly from your premises and moved in a vehicle matched to the load.
Wickford is the strongest case we have for the collection times we advertise. When we say we can often be with you inside the hour across Essex, in Wickford the honest number is closer to fifteen minutes.
Where we collect in Wickford
Shotgate Industrial Estate on the eastern side is the main industrial site, and the trade counters around the town centre make up most of the rest. Wickford Business Park and the smaller units off the Runwell and Nevendon roads cover the remainder.
This is trade and light industrial work: fixings, fittings, plumbing and electrical stock, light manufacturing parts, and palletised goods going down to London or up the A130 to Chelmsford.
The level crossing
Wickford has one feature that no other location on our network has, and it catches couriers who do not know the town.
The railway runs through the middle of it and the level crossing by the station closes regularly. When it does, the queue backs up through the town centre in both directions. Five miles of A132 counts for nothing if the barrier is down and you are third in a line of forty.
We plan round it. If your collection is on the far side of the line from us we will usually come in on a route that avoids the crossing entirely rather than taking the shortest road and hoping. On a job this short the crossing is the single biggest variable in the timing.
What being five miles away changes
The 4pm booking cut-off is more useful here than anywhere. A late afternoon call for a Wickford collection with a London drop is still achievable in a way it is not from Colchester or Harwich, because the collection leg is almost free in time terms.
Short-notice collections are realistic. Subject to what is already running, we can often be there before you have finished wrapping the pallet.
And it makes Wickford a natural first stop. A collection here plus a drop in Basildon, Rayleigh or Chelmsford is one short run rather than separate jobs.
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.
The curtain-side Luton opens along the side for forklift loading, which suits the trade counters where there is a forklift in the yard. The box Luton has a tail lift where there is not.
The fleet page has every class and UK pallet sizes explained covers the footprints.
Where Wickford work goes
London down the A127 and A13. Chelmsford up the A130, where we pass the Rettendon turn. Basildon, Rayleigh, Billericay and Southend are all within a few miles.
Other services we run in Wickford
Multi-drop for trade stock going out to a run of customers, with fixed rates on recurring runs if it is a regular route. Next-day courier where tomorrow does the job. Two-man delivery for anything heading to a site with no handling equipment.
Our same-day courier service has the booking detail.
Wickford questions
Five miles, so it is the shortest run on our network. Normally about fifteen minutes rather than the hour we quote across Essex generally. The variable is not the distance, it is the level crossing.
The railway cuts through the middle of the town and the crossing by the station closes often. When it does the queue backs up through the centre both ways. If your collection is on the far side of the line from us we will route around it rather than take the shortest road and sit at the barrier.
Often yes. Five miles means a short-notice collection is realistic here in a way it is not at the other end of the county. It still depends on which vehicle you need, so a Luton or a refrigerated van wants more warning than a small van.
More use here than almost anywhere. Because the collection leg costs us so little time, a late Wickford booking with a London drop is still achievable. From Colchester or Harwich the same call would not be.
Yes, and that is a good share of the work here. If there is a forklift in the yard we send the curtain-side Luton because side loading is quicker. If there is not, the box Luton's tail lift handles it.
Yes, and it is a short, cheap run. We go up the A130 past the Rettendon turn anyway. Add Rayleigh or Basildon and it is still one job rather than three.
Six pallets in a Luton at 1,000kg across the whole load, in a 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m space. Give us the individual pallet weights rather than just the count, because weight often runs out before space does.
Not precisely, and we would not pretend otherwise. What we can do is avoid depending on it. If your collection is on the far side of the line from us we route in without using the crossing at all, which takes the risk out rather than managing it. On a five-mile run that is the difference between fifteen minutes and forty.
Send us the postcodes and what is moving. You get a price in seconds and a driver within the hour.