Pallet deliveries

Prices seem to have shot up.

Not that long ago I had 2 pallets delivered for £100.

Just cost £90 something for 1/2 a one.

Edited by midas - 23 January 2017 at 11:14am

blame brexit?

Andy Kos wrote: I dont think you can point the finger at any one particular clause. Fuel increases are partly to do with exchange rates,

I don't know about pallets, but down here courier prices on small packages has become stupidly cheap. A few years ago, it was cheaper for me to, for example, personally drop off a couple of amps to a place about 100km away as a courier would cost far more than my time and fuel. Today I can get amps couriered to the other side of the country for about 10 Euros.


Edited by Earplug - 23 January 2017 at 3:08pm

Its down to competition, certain companies increased their infrastructure to cater for mail/internet order, especially companies like DPD who were doing a lot of delivery work for Amazon.

Amazon have now started up their own logistics, leaving DPD with spare capacity and a hole to fill, which means more competition on price.

A similar thing happened with pallet shipping, but I think due to some haulage companies ending up bankrupt, the competition has reduced, and price have gone up.

Our small parcel rates went right down about 2-3 years ago, but are creeping up again now.

I've used palletline in the past, they're ok, the price is based on 24 pallets to a truck at 1 tonne/pallet, theres yer load, however, they are sending out small vans doing pickups to a centralized location and sending two artics per night each on the long runs , say london,birmingham,manchester,carlisle,glasgow/edinburgh.