Full loads
Enough freight to fill a trailer, collected from your site or your supplier.
Usually a 44-tonne artic
Road haulage from Doncaster, nationwide
Full and part loads, machinery and regular runs on curtain-sided 18-tonne rigids and 44-tonne artics, from Doncaster to anywhere in the UK.
Up to eight pallets or 1,000kg travels by van or Luton and can be priced and booked online.
26 or 52
Pallets per artic, floor or double-stacked
28,000kg
Maximum artic payload
Full loads, part loads and regular runs
One-off loads and ongoing work are both welcome: full loads, part loads, machinery movements, repeat routes, scheduled collections and contract distribution. The vehicle depends on the load, the route, site access and how it will be unloaded.
Part loads
Freight that does not require the full capacity of a trailer, matched to the load, route and delivery site. Priced as a part load.
Usually an 18-tonne rigid
Repeat routes and contract work
Recurring distribution, scheduled collections and repeat lanes, agreed as a programme with a vehicle and a schedule rather than a price per job.
Priced as a schedule
Machinery and timed site deliveries
Machinery that fits a curtain-sided trailer, and deliveries that have to meet a fitter or a crane slot at a set time. Tell us the window and the access at the far end.
Vehicle confirmed according to the load and site access
Loaded from the side
Curtain sides allow long, wide and awkward loads to be placed directly onto the bed. They are useful where rear loading is restricted or a forklift needs to approach from the side.
HGV capacity and access
Vehicle choice depends on the load and the available access. An artic carries more; an 18-tonne rigid can enter sites with less turning space.
44-tonne artic
Full loads and larger part loads
- Trailer deck
- 13.6m
- Pallets
- 26 on the floor, 52 double-stacked
- Maximum payload
- 28,000kg
- Access
- More turning and access space required at the delivery point
18-tonne rigid
Part loads and restricted sites
- Load bed
- 8.3m
- Pallets
- 16
- Maximum payload
- 9,000kg
- Loading
- Tail-lift availability for sites without a forklift
- Access
- Suitable where an artic cannot enter
7.5-tonne work is arranged with its own driver and managed by the same team.
Capacity for regular and contract work
Regular and contract work is agreed on the route, the frequency, the vehicle and the access at each end. Speak to us about recurring distribution, scheduled collections or repeat lanes, and we come back with a programme and a price.
Nationwide, from one depot
Every haulage job runs out of Unit 16, Adwick Business Park, a few minutes from the A1(M) north of Doncaster. There are no regional depots, so where a load can go is a question of the mileage and the vehicle rather than of coverage.
- A1(M)
- Beside the depot
- M18 and M62
- Via the A1(M)
- M1
- Via the M18 or M62
- Yorkshire and the north Midlands
- Most journeys
Road haulage in practice
Examples of loads handled by the fleet.
18-tonne curtainsider, tail lift
Rotherham
to
Immingham
Emergency pipework for a fabrication firm
One fabricated pipework section, 5.2 metres long, roughly 400kg, on a timber cradle. Too long for a standard pallet and impossible to load through the back of a box van.
Request a haulage quotation
HGV work is priced on the route, the vehicle and the date by the people who run the fleet.
Haulage quotation
More than eight pallets or 1,000kg: full loads, part loads and regular runs.
Which fleet
18-tonne rigid and 44-tonne artic work runs on the DH Courier fleet. A 7.5-tonne is arranged with its own driver.
Smaller loads
Up to eight pallets or 1,000kg goes by van or Luton, priced and booked online.
Move a full load, a part load or a regular run
Send the route, the load and the access at each end. Our team replies with the vehicle and the price.