OT: Pallet delivery services

[Bob Minchin]

I expect to need to shift one of these

from one UK address to another. Oen possibility might be a pallet delivery company but we don't have a fork lift at either end.

Do these companies use the sort of truck that carry their own FLT on the back so we could go 10m or so from 1 garage to the truck and a similar distance at the receiving end. Will they take their FLT over private ground (concrete block paver etc at our risk? The enclosure is designed to be picked up by a FLT so will the carriers still want it on a wooden pallet. Weight could end up being 400-500kg so not at all easy to manhandle to the kerbside.

An experience you can share would be welcome.

tia

Bob

[Andy Burns]

Some do, e.g.

Never used them myself ...

[Nick]

I imagine that such service would be costly, if even available. Could you not use a pallet (Collis) truck or similar? Most man with van types have these. I think they are good for about 500kg but might need some manpower to shove around. Also you could repack/unpack some of the contents at both ends. HTH Nick

[John Rumm]

The last one I watched brought a pallet truck (the manual pump handle type), and had a tail lift on the lorry. They seemed happy to drag the load off my neighbours drive, and down to the truck. (more than 10m)

[Andrew Mawson]

Bob,

I've shifted MANY things using pallet companies including some very difficult ones :)

Without exception I've found the drivers to be helpful and pleasant. As has been said they usually have a tail lift and a hand pump pallet truck. If the driver is approached in a friendly manner and possibly offered a cup of tea I see no issues! I once got them to shift a top heavy 'blacksmiths power hammer' weighing over a ton about 20 foot over deepish gravel at my last house. I had to lay a track of scaffold planks for the hand truck !!!

These days if I initiate a pallet move I use Speedshift (

) who are one of the few companies to offer 'half pallet' loads, which is a full sized pallet but less than 1 metre tall. Most of these companies use a 'hub' system - they have a local shifter at each end and use a long distance service between them. Nowadays I have the advantage (being retired) of usually being here which will be one of your issues as they usually cannot say exactly when they will collect, also I have a full size Hyster fork lift truck as I store lots of 'stuff' on pallets round the farm yard.

Andrew

[Bob Minchin]

Thanks for all your replies. It looks like my task should be quite doable. I'll give that company a call Andrew.

Cheers Bob

[tony sayer]

Blimey that is impressive!..

Is it that noisy;?...