Mixing desks, backline, speakers, screens and flight cases have travelled with us since 1996. Our own drivers do pro audio and AV transport across the UK and Europe in plain vehicles, from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire, London included. Some loads are odder than others: in April 2018 an 18t lorry took pro audio and a Mini from London to Wales.
All our vehicles are unsignwritten, which suits us fine, because we can be whoever you want us to be on the day. Our drivers work the load-in and the load-out, not just the drive.
Most of the time the limit is the venue, not the road: a loading bay with a time slot, a lift that won't take a flight case, a street that's closed after six. We ask on the first call.
We use air ride vehicles with tail lifts or ramps for desks and cased racks, and Mercedes 18t and 26t trucks for bigger loads. Loadlok or E-track holds everything at three levels, with straps, shoring bars and blankets for the delicate bits. The vehicles are plain and tracked, with Thatcham approved deadlocks.
For Europe we hold a Standard International Goods Vehicle Operator's Licence, which has been needed since 21 May 2022 to carry goods for hire or reward in vans over 2.5t in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. We work with our own customs agent and partner networks when the kit goes by air. We're ISO 9001:2015 certified and members of the Road Haulage Association.
Cover is arranged for each job to the value of your equipment, up to £0.5m without referral. Public liability is no less than £2 million. See accreditations.
The Tour Carnet Prep Checklist helps you prepare the information an ATA Carnet needs before equipment leaves the UK for a tour, live event, exhibition or broadcast job. It covers the preparation, the border, the tour itself and the return.
The ATA Carnet Equipment List is an Excel workbook for gathering the information an ATA Carnet needs. It is a working tool for the equipment list, which is where most customs delays begin. It is not the official carnet form.
It's moving the expensive, delicate kit that shows and conferences run on: desks, speakers, backline, screens, projectors and the cases they live in. The vehicle, the strapping and the driver all matter more than they do for a box of paper.
Yes. We serve London from our base in Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire, and we plan for venue loading windows and night access.
Yes. We run to Northern England from Fleet, with the same drivers and vehicles, and plan round the venue's loading window.
Yes. We've supported a London theatre trade show for many years, and we move staging, cases and technical kit for shows and tours.
Our drivers do that every day. Cameras, desks, screens and cased kit go direct from A to B in a plain tracked vehicle with a direct line to the driver.
Yes, through our own customs agent and partner networks. For a road move we run the vehicle ourselves, and for air we arrange the freight and the paperwork.
Yes, with an ATA carnet if it's coming home. See ATA carnet service.
No. We transport it, and we can store it between jobs.
Tell us what's moving, the two addresses and the venue times, and we'll come back with questions or a quote.
We work from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire. Moves to London, Northern England and across Europe all run from there.
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