Secure Transportation (UK & EU)

Every vehicle is plain and unsignwritten, so nothing on the outside advertises what is inside. Thatcham approved deadlocks go on the cab doors across most of the fleet, with side and rear deadlocks on the panel vans, selected vehicles carry remote engine immobilisation, and tracking runs down to street level anywhere in Europe, live to your desktop or your phone for the duration of the journey. Inside, load lok and E-track at three different levels with padded rails for unpacked data racks, plus straps and shoring poles, so nothing shifts. Where the consignment calls for it, cases and cages travel under tamper evident seals with the numbers recorded at both ends. Air ride suspension on everything. Euro 6, maintained to DVSA rules.

Damage rarely happens at 60mph on a motorway, it happens in a doorway, and that is why the handling equipment matters more than the truck. We carry an Innolift mobile fork truck rated to 600kg that travels with the vehicle so we can load and unload ourselves, two powered stair climbers, scissor lift tables that take 350kg from 27cm to 160cm, mechanical lift plates rated at 400kg for supporting a chassis at 1u in the bottom of a rack, hydraulic lifters good for 1800kg as a pair, and our own Chassis Lift and Slide System for putting equipment from 20kg to 400kg into a 19 inch rack. All of it is ours. None of it is hired.

Everything we run in Europe is on our Standard International Goods Vehicle Operators Licence with 4 UK Licences for the Community, which has been a legal requirement since 21 May 2022 for anything over 2.5 tonnes moving goods for hire or reward into the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Customs is done by our own agent in house, ATA Carnets included. Goods in transit cover is £2,600 all risks for any one event per vehicle with AXA, against an industry standard of £1,300 per tonne, and marine cargo can be quoted up to £0.5m without underwriter referral. Public liability is no less than £2 million.