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Two-man delivery services in Wickford
Two people with the vehicle in Wickford, five miles from our base, for anything going inside a unit rather than onto a pallet truck at the door.
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Two-man delivery in Wickford
Tasito runs two-man delivery across 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. Fixings and fittings, plumbing and electrical stock, light manufacturing parts, equipment and workshop and office furniture are the regular load, with a crew of two travelling with the vehicle.
Wickford is five miles from us, up the A132 or off the A130, and it is the shortest leg on our network. Being this close changes what we can hold at short notice rather than changing the delivery end, and the delivery end is still what decides the crew. Tell us the unit, the floor and how the item gets through the door when you book. Bookings run until 4pm, Monday to Friday, and this is the address where that cut-off is most useful.
Where we deliver in Wickford
Shotgate Industrial Estate on the eastern side is the main industrial site and takes a good share of the crewed deliveries here. The trade counters around the town centre make up most of the rest, with Wickford Business Park and the smaller units off Runwell Road and Nevendon Road covering the remainder.
A trade counter is an easy address to reach and not always an easy one to deliver into. There is a shutter, a counter and a shop floor behind it, and goods that have to end up on a rack or in a back room get there because somebody carried them. Where there is a forklift in the yard the collection end is quick, and the carry at the other end is still the carry.
Give us the floor, the tightest doorway and the longest item, and we will tell you at booking what the address needs rather than working it out on arrival.
The level crossing
Wickford has one feature no other location on our network has. The railway runs through the middle of it and the level crossing by the station closes regularly, and when it does the queue backs up through the town centre in both directions. Five miles of A132 counts for nothing with the barrier down and a line of traffic ahead of you.
So we plan around it rather than through it. Where the address sits on the far side of the line from us, we come in on a route that avoids the crossing entirely rather than taking the shortest road and hoping. On a crewed job that choice matters more, because two people are on the vehicle for the whole of the delay as well as the whole of the carry.
What five miles changes, and what it does not
The 4pm cut-off is more useful here than anywhere else we serve, because the leg to Wickford costs us almost no time. A late afternoon booking for a Wickford address is realistic in a way it is not at the far end of the county.
Short notice is realistic too. A crew is allocated with the vehicle rather than found at the far end, so what we can promise depends on what is already running, and at five miles we can often cover a crewed job on the day as well. Call and we will tell you what is free.
What distance does not change is the building. A crew is booked against the delivery address, so the floor, the lift and the doorway decide it here exactly as they would at thirty-five miles.
What the crew does once it is through the shutter
Off the vehicle, in through the door, positioned where you want it, and the packaging taken away where that was agreed at booking.
Assembly and installation are not included. Workshop or office furniture arriving flat stays flat until a fitter is there, so send us their hour and we will land the delivery to meet them. Clearing out old stock fittings or furniture is separate work with disposal attached to it, and it belongs in the plan rather than in a conversation at the counter.
The measurements we want are the floor, the goods lift's internal depth where there is one, the narrowest doorway between the vehicle and the room, and the longest item on board. At a trade counter the narrow point is often the doorway between the counter and the back, which is the one nobody thinks to mention.
The vehicle at a trade counter
A trade counter with a forklift in its yard suits the curtain-side Luton, which opens along the flank for loading, and one without gets the box version for its tail lift. Either body measures 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m and holds six pallets with 1,000kg between them, and on this work it is the 1,000kg that is reached first, so send individual pallet weights rather than a count.
Below it, a short wheelbase carries one pallet and 450kg in 2.1m of space, a medium handles 800kg with three Euro pallets or two standard, the 3.3m long wheelbase holds four Euro or three standard, and the 4.2m extra-long holds five Euro or four standard. Anything too long for a doorway travels on the flat bed, 800kg across 2.7m. There are no charging zones here; Wickford is Essex, and charges only come in where the delivery address is in London. Our fleet is FORS accredited and renewed for 2026, which counts at a London site gate.
The fleet page shows every class, and UK pallet sizes explained covers the footprints, which is a useful read before a trade counter order goes on a pallet at all.
Where Wickford work goes
London is down the A127 and the A13. Chelmsford is up the A130, where we pass the Rettendon turn. Basildon, Rayleigh, Billericay and Southend-on-Sea are all within a few miles, which makes this a natural first stop on a crewed run going east or west.
Other services we run in Wickford
Multi-drop for trade stock going out to a run of customers, with a fixed rate on a recurring route. Same-day courier where the load does not need a second person. Next-day courier where tomorrow morning does the job. Planning, routing and sorting where the same movement repeats weekly.
The full two-man delivery service covers how a crew is booked with the vehicle, which even at five miles is arranged in advance rather than at the door.
Wickford questions
Call and we will tell you what is free. Booking the previous day secures it, and at five miles we can often cover a crewed job on the day too, subject to what is already running.
The railway cuts through the middle of the town and the crossing by the station closes often, backing the queue up through the centre both ways. Where your address is on the far side of the line from us we route around it rather than sit at the barrier.
Yes. Give us the floor, the tightest doorway and the longest item, or the flights and the sharpest turn where there is no lift. At a trade counter the door behind the counter is usually the limit.
Often yes, because the leg here costs us almost no time. It still depends on the vehicle, so a Luton wants more warning than a short wheelbase.
No. Carried in and positioned where you want it, with packaging removed if you ask at booking. Assembly is a separate trade, so send us your fitter's time and we will time the delivery to meet them.
Yes, as a separate job with disposal attached. Tell us in advance and we will confirm, because on a counter refit it belongs in the sequence rather than squeezed into the same visit.
Six pallets in a Luton, 1,000kg being the ceiling across the lot, in a body of 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m. Send the individual weights, since that ceiling is reached before the floor space fills.
Yes, and it is a short run. We go up the A130 past the Rettendon turn anyway, and the crew stays with the vehicle for both rather than you booking two jobs.
Send us the postcodes and what is moving. You get a price in seconds and a driver within the hour.