Same-day, next-day or economy: picking a delivery window

Not every consignment needs to move at the same speed, and paying for same-day collection on freight that isn’t actually urgent is money spent for no real benefit. Next-day is our most-booked service for a reason: collected today, delivered the next working day, nationwide, at a rate that suits most routine freight. Economy suits anything […]

Pallet or parcel? Choosing the right service for your load

The line between “parcel” and “pallet” isn’t always obvious, and picking the wrong one can mean paying for capacity you don’t need — or booking a service that can’t actually take the size of load you’ve got. As a rough guide, a parcel service suits individual boxed items you could comfortably carry by hand. Anything […]

Why direct dispatch means less handling damage

Every time a consignment changes hands, there’s a chance of damage. A pallet passed through a shared network hub might be loaded and unloaded three or four times before it reaches its destination — once at the collecting depot, once at a central hub, sometimes again at a regional depot, and finally onto the delivery […]