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Who we areAbout BerksFleet
A UK courier and haulage operator built around our own van fleet, working across the UK, with a vetted carrier network behind it for HGV and specialist work.
- Trusted UK operator
- Nationwide coverage
- People who keep things moving
What we do
Most of our work is van work: same day courier jobs, dedicated deliveries, multi drop rounds, emergency parts runs and scheduled contracts. Those vehicles are ours and the drivers answer to us, which is the part that matters when someone turns up at your customer's site with your delivery note in their hand.
Alongside it we handle HGV work: traction only where you own the trailers, full and part loads where you do not, backloads for anything with a flexible date, and outsourced transport management for businesses that would rather not run a transport desk. Some of that runs on our own vehicles and some goes to carriers we have vetted, chosen on which genuinely serves the movement better rather than on which keeps more of the margin in house.
Reliable people.Real deliveries.
Six things we commit to
These are not values on a wall. They are the specific behaviours we think are missing from most of the quotes you will get. Freight transport is not complicated, but it is easy to do badly, and almost every failure we see comes down to one of three things:
- The wrong vehicle was sent
- The customer was not told something they needed to know
- The price on the invoice was not the price on the quote
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The quoted rate is the invoiced rate
No fuel surcharge appearing later, no administration fee, no rounding up. If the job itself changes we agree the difference with you before the cost is incurred, not after.
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We will talk you out of a sale
If a parcel network is genuinely cheaper and safer for what you are sending, we say so, even though it means losing the job. A customer who trusts our advice brings back the movements that actually need us.
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You are told who is carrying your freight
Our vans are ours. Where a movement goes to a carrier in our network we tell you, rather than implying every vehicle on the road is on our licence. Hauliers who obscure that usually obscure other things too.
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Bad news travels fast, not slowly
Sites turn vehicles away, loads are not ready, traffic happens. You hear about it the same day from a person, with the real reason. Finding out at invoice stage is not acceptable from any carrier.
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Compliance is published, not promised
Licence, insurance and cover limits are on the site and the certificates come back the same working day. We also say plainly what we do not hold, because you will find out at tender stage anyway.
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Vehicles where the work is
Vans spread across the country rather than concentrated where the office happens to be. Distance to your collection point is the first cost and the first delay on any urgent job.
Where we are
We are based in Berkshire and we work across the whole of the United Kingdom. Being on the M4 corridor puts us within easy reach of London, Heathrow, the South West and the Midlands, but the point of the fleet is that it does not all start from here. Vehicles sit where the work is.
- Nationwide Coverage
- Strategic M4 Location
- Vetted Carrier Network
Need a price, or need a van moving now?
Send the detail and we will come back with a fixed rate. For anything urgent, the phone is faster.