Flatbed Delivery Service with On-Board Crane

Plenty of loads simply do not fit on a curtainsider or inside a box trailer. Long lengths of steel section, timber packs, plastic pipework, profiled cladding sheets, precast lintels, scaffolding components, formwork panels, garden buildings still in panel form — anything that is longer than it is wide, or anything that is oversize, naturally wants an open flat deck. A flatbed is also the only sensible choice for loads that need lifting on rather than rolling or wheeling on, because there are no side panels to fight with.

The vehicle is a 26-tonne rigid flatbed with a hydraulic lorry-mounted crane behind the cab. The combination is what makes the service different from a normal flatbed hire. A standard flatbed delivers your load to site and stops at the edge of it — anything beyond kerbside is your problem. Our flatbed lifts the load on at the collection point, transports it, and lifts it off at the destination, including over fences, scaffolding, vehicles or low walls that a forklift could never reach past. One booking; collection, transport and placement.

Industries we serve weekly include construction merchants and steel stockholders, fabrication shops, roofing and cladding contractors, drainage suppliers, landscapers, glasshouse and polytunnel installers, and end customers buying directly from manufacturers where the manufacturer cannot offer placed delivery. For dedicated jobs around our home county the Kent flatbed transport page covers same-day local availability; nationwide jobs are usually planned a day or two ahead so we can route the journey efficiently.

The advantage of a self-loading flatbed becomes clearest when you cost it against the alternative. Hiring a separate flatbed, hiring a separate crane, paying both for waiting time while one waits for the other, paying again if the forklift at destination cannot reach the load — the sums add up. Replacing that with a single vehicle and one operator is normally the cheapest way to move a long or heavy load between two points. The same vehicle also covers the self-loading crane delivery service for non-flatbed customers.