Late in 2024 a team of seven loaded an 18t truck overnight at a London trade show. That's event transport: our drivers work the load-in and load-out as well as the road, for live shows, tours, trade stands and conferences across the UK and Europe. Own drivers, plain vehicles, working crews, all from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire, London included.
A tour: backline, desks and staging moved between venues, sometimes across several countries, on a tight schedule.
A trade show stand: delivered, built, then taken down and moved on after the show.
A conference: screens, projectors and AV kit delivered and collected. In January 2017 that meant HD projectors to a conference in Rome.
A festival rescue: an urgent mixing desk swap-out in France.
A product demo tour: a container from Canada arrives, the kit is pre-staged in our warehouse, and it goes out round the UK.
Our drivers work the build-up and the break-down, not only the drive.
In the order the work usually happens.
Venues. Every venue has loading rules: a bay, a slot, sometimes a night-only window. We ask about those at the first call and plan the load-out round them. At the London trade show below, the load-out was at night.
Border paperwork. Event kit usually comes home again, which is what an ATA carnet is for. We prepare it, brief the driver and carry the kit. Our tour carnet prep checklist and ATA carnet equipment list are free.
Operator licence. Since 21 May 2022, anyone carrying goods for hire or reward in vans over 2.5t in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland needs a Standard International Goods Vehicle Operator's Licence. We hold one.
Load restraint. The load is held with Loadlok or E-track, straps, shoring bars and blankets, so desks and cases don't move on the road.
Cover. Arranged for each job to the value of your equipment, up to £0.5m without referral. Public liability no less than £2 million. See accreditations.
Andy has always gone out of his way to ensure equipment has been timeously delivered to customers or trade shows.
Tell us the venue dates, the kit and the route, and we'll come back with questions or a quote.
It's moving the kit for an event: from a warehouse or a tour bus to the venue, through the build-up and the show, and out again. For us that means our own drivers working the load-in and load-out as well as the road.
Yes. For a show or an exhibition we plan the run, drive it and work the load-in and load-out with our own crew. Late in 2024 that meant a team of seven loading an 18t truck overnight at a London trade show. Kit can wait in our Fleet warehouse between shows.
Yes. We serve London from our base in Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire. London venues often have night-only loading windows, and we plan for those.
We run vehicles with air ride, ramps or tail lifts, and our drivers work the build-up and break-down. Tell us the kit and the venue and we'll say which vehicle goes.
Yes. Screens, projectors, staging, signage and demo kit all travel the same way. We've delivered HD projectors to a conference in Rome and run demo kit round the UK.
Yes, by road, with an ATA carnet if the kit is coming home. In September 2026 our 26t made its first European trip with PA kit into Belgium on a carnet.
Yes. Our Fleet warehouse holds kit between events, and we can build and test it there first. See secure warehousing for IT equipment.
No. We transport it. For hire, you'd need a hire company, and we can move the kit for you.
Tell us what's moving, the venue and the dates, and we'll come back with questions or a quote.
We work from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire. Events in London and across Europe all run from there, with our own drivers.
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