Event Transport

The driver is part of the crew. Ours will help you build up and break down, set out pop-up graphics, get stage set and AV where it needs to be, and then come back for the strike, which is a different proposition from a man who unloads onto the dock and drives away. We do full merchandising and build for exhibition stands too. Between events the stand or the rig can sit in our racking near Farnborough Airport or Heathrow, both alarmed to an NSI Gold alarm receiving centre with police response and monitored CCTV, and come back out for the next date without anyone having to find a unit.

We run everything from a Renault Trafic that will clear a 2.0 metre underground car park barrier, through Master Low Loaders with 500 and 750kg full enclosure tail lifts and a 2.5 metre loading height, up to a Mercedes 12 tonne with a 4000kg payload and a DAF 18 tonne, and where a job genuinely needs 26 or 44 tonnes we bring in an approved partner rather than pretend. Payloads span 900kg to 7000kg. All Euro 6, the HGVs ULEZ compliant, all maintained to DVSA rules, all plain and unsignwritten, and all on our Standard International Goods Vehicle Operators Licence, which since 21 May 2022 you legally need for anything over 2.5 tonnes going into the EU.

We do our own import and export customs clearance, ATA Carnets included, because on a tour the paperwork is the schedule. Two things will catch you out. European customs offices generally close at 4pm and are shut all weekend, so a Friday afternoon departure that looks fine on a spreadsheet can leave a truck parked until Monday, and a T1 transit, collected at the UK office and presented at the destination office, takes anything from an hour to the whole day. You also need a Port Pass, which comes from a GMR (Goods Movement Reference), which comes from a completed customs entry, which comes from a commercial invoice. Without the Port Pass you will simply be turned away.