Choosing a courier for heavy items
The best courier for heavy items takes your item's real weight and size, shows the full price before you book and can get it inside at the other end. Use this checklist to compare.
The checklist
A weight limit per item that fits
Standard parcel couriers often stop around 30kg. We take single items up to 150kg, and one consignment can hold several, up to 1,000kg and 15 cubic metres. Check the limit per item, not only per booking.
Size limits as well as weight
Heavy items are often long or bulky too. Ours is up to 6.5m long, with the other two sides up to 3m.
Who lifts it at the other end
Delivery is to the door as standard. For anything one person can't lift safely, add two-person delivery and two crew carry it into the room your recipient chooses. They don't unpack, assemble or take packaging away.
The full price before you book
Each item is priced on size or weight, whichever is greater. Heavy items are usually priced on their actual weight. Fuel and handling are included, so there is no separate heavy or oversize line, and the price only changes if an item is bigger or heavier than declared.
Packing that takes the weight
Use a strong box or crate that won't split, with a firm base, nothing loose inside and somewhere to grip. Weigh it once it's packed and fix a label to the largest flat side.
The dangerous goods rules
We don't carry dangerous goods, including fuel and other flammable liquids and e-bike batteries. Drain engines, gearboxes and generators of fuel and oil before you send them.
Cover, tracking and claims
Every consignment includes standard cover, and you can declare a higher value for enhanced cover. Every consignment is tracked, and if something arrives damaged you raise a claim from your account with photos.
Heavy items we carry
Machinery parts, engines and gearboxes (drained), gym and fitness kit, boxed equipment, stone and tiles. A 40 x 40 x 30cm gearbox weighing 60kg works out at under 10kg by size, so it's priced at its actual 60kg.
See heavy parcel delivery for more, and how to pack and label a parcel.
Common questions
Standard parcel couriers often stop around 30kg. We take single items up to 150kg each, and one consignment can hold several, up to 1,000kg in total.
Yes. Heavier items take more space and more handling. That handling is included in the price, so there is no separate heavy or oversize line, and fuel is included too.
Delivery is to the door as standard. Add two-person delivery when you book and two crew carry it into the room your recipient chooses.
No. Drain the fuel and oil first: we don't carry dangerous goods, including fuel and other flammable liquids.