Gloucester, the South West and the Midlands · operating since 1986
Pallets moved overnight. Rates confirmed today.
Groupage, full loads, European road freight and customs clearance out of Gloucester. Our own drivers, our own trailers and a traffic office that answers on the second ring.
What we move
Six ways out of Barnwood.
Everything below is planned and driven by us. Where the pallet network carries a leg, we still own the delivery promise and the paperwork behind it.
Pallet groupage
One pallet or twenty, consolidated on our Gloucester trunk overnight and delivered through the network the next working day. Booked in by 16:00 and scanned at every handover.
Full and part loads
Curtainsider, box and flatbed up to 26 tonnes payload. Dedicated vehicle, one driver, straight from your loading bay to the consignee with no handling in between.
European road freight
Groupage and full loads to France, Benelux, Germany, Spain and Italy on fixed weekly departures. Ferry and tunnel space is held in advance, so a missed cut-off does not cost you a week.
Customs clearance
Export and import declarations filed in house under our AEO(C) authorisation. Commodity codes are checked before the vehicle moves, not at the border.
Warehousing and pick and pack
84,000 square feet across four sites, racked and ambient, BRCGS audited. Stock is visible to your account team, with pick and pack for retail and direct to consumer.
Abnormal and project loads
Low loaders, extendable trailers and route surveys for plant, tanks and fabricated steel. Notifications and escorts arranged with the police and the highways authorities.
Lanes and transit
Where a Gloucester trunk gets you.
Uplifts are per pallet on top of the size rate, before VAT and the fuel surcharge. Timed and pre-10:00 deliveries are priced separately on the rate confirmation.
| Zone | Postcode areas | Transit | Uplift per pallet |
|---|---|---|---|
| South West and Severnside | GL, BS, BA, SN, TA, EX, HR, WR and others | Next day before 17:00 | included |
| Midlands and South Wales | B, CV, DY, WS, WV, ST, NN, LE and others | Next day before 17:00 | + £4 |
| London and the South East | E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W, WC and others | Next day, timed slots from 09:30 | + £9 |
| North of England | M, L, PR, BL, OL, WA, CH, S and others | Next day before 18:00 | + £12 |
| Scotland, Highlands and islands | G, EH, ML, KA, PA, FK, DD, AB and others | 48 hour, Highlands and islands 72 hour | + £26 |
| Northern Ireland and Europe | BT | 3 to 5 working days, customs cleared | + £48 |
Network
Four sites, one traffic office.
Planning sits in one room at Barnwood, so nobody has to ring three depots to find out where a load is.
How a rate becomes a delivery
Four steps, all of them written down.
Send the consignment detail
Postcodes, pallet count and size, collection date. A planner prices it against the lane rather than a generic tariff.
Rate confirmation in writing
A written rate the same working day, valid for 30 days, with the transit time and any timed delivery cost shown separately.
Booked in and scanned
Collection slot confirmed by email. Every pallet is barcoded and scanned at collection, at trunk, at the hub and on delivery.
Proof of delivery the same day
Signed and photographed PODs land in your account portal within an hour of the drop, and sit on the invoice line when you are billed.
Account customers
What the people who move with us say.
We moved 340 pallets a week across after a bad winter with our last carrier. Nineteen months in, the on-time figure has not dropped below 97 per cent, and the failures we do get arrive with a photo and a reason.
Helen ProsserSupply chain manager, food manufacturer, Tewkesbury
Their planners ring us before we ring them. When a trailer went down at Michaelwood they had a replacement loaded and away in ninety minutes.
Dan WhitcombeOperations director, builders merchant group
The customs side is the reason we stayed. Codes are checked before the load is built, so nothing sits at Calais waiting on paperwork we should have sent.
Priya NandraExport co-ordinator, engineering subcontractor
Questions we get every week
Cut-offs, credit and claims.
16:00 for collections inside GL, BS, BA, SN and WR. 14:30 elsewhere in England and Wales. Anything later goes on the following night trunk unless you ask for a dedicated vehicle.
Yes. Trade accounts are opened on two satisfactory references and a credit check, usually within three working days. Standard terms are 30 days from statement.
Signed and photographed PODs appear in your account portal within an hour of delivery, and every invoice line carries its consignment number so you can match them without ringing us.
We carry goods in transit cover to £250,000 per vehicle as standard. Higher single-consignment limits are arranged in advance and confirmed on the rate.
Yes, ADR limited load and full load. Nine drivers hold current ADR certification and we have a qualified dangerous goods safety adviser on retainer.
It is photographed where it is found, quarantined and reported to your account manager the same day. Claims are acknowledged within two working days under RHA conditions of carriage.
Send us a lane and we will price it today.
Two postcodes, a pallet count and a date is enough to get a written rate back the same working day.