Fencing Delivery Across the UK

Fencing is two loads pretending to be one. The panels fill a vehicle and weigh nothing; the concrete posts and gravel boards weigh a tonne and take up almost no room. Quote it as one thing and the vehicle is wrong whichever way you guess.

T&C Logistics delivers for fencing merchants and manufacturers, fencing contractors, agricultural merchants and landscapers. Companies House records over 2,600 active UK companies in fencing and gates. We have run specialist transport since 2020 with more than 3,000 vetted driver-partners nationwide. Quotes from £50 (ex VAT), quoted in full upfront before you book.

Why does the load split so sharply?

Because timber panels and concrete components have opposite properties. A closeboard or lap panel is 1.8 metres square and weighs 15 to 25 kilograms; a concrete slotted post of the same height weighs 40 to 60 kilograms and a gravel board 30 to 40.

A vehicle full of panels is nowhere near payload; the same vehicle with a concrete order is at its limit with floor space to spare. Mixed loads have to be planned rather than filled. See our dropside and flatbed pages.

How are concrete components handled?

Carefully, because they are heavy and brittle at once. A concrete gravel board dropped on its edge cracks, and a slotted post chipped at the slot will not take a panel properly.

They travel flat and supported rather than stood on end, loaded low, and never with panels beneath them. Two-person handling is standard — a 60-kilogram post is a genuine manual handling issue rather than a lift somebody should improvise.

Concrete is also the reason a fencing delivery frequently needs offload equipment at the far end. A pallet of posts is several hundred kilograms, and a domestic customer expecting them carried to a back garden has a different expectation from what a kerbside pallet delivery provides.

Where do fencing deliveries actually go?

Farms, domestic gardens, building sites and contractors' yards — four destinations with almost nothing in common.

Farms want stock fencing and gates delivered to a field gate or a yard, frequently down a track a loaded vehicle should assess before committing to. Domestic gardens want panels through a side gate. Sites want plot or compound delivery with an induction. Yards are the easy one.

The recurring failure is assuming a postcode is enough. A farm entrance, a domestic side gate width and a site gate reference are all things worth having before the vehicle sets off. See our construction industry hub.

What does weather do to a fencing load?

Less than to most timber trades, but it still matters. Treated fencing timber is designed for outdoor use, but it arrives wet from treatment and marks anything absorbent it travels against.

That is the practical point rather than product damage: freshly treated panels and posts should not travel touching finished materials, and a load mixing them with anything porous is a load where one product spoils another.

Metal gates and galvanised components are the other consideration — galvanising scratches, and a scratched gate corrodes at that point. Gates travel separated rather than stacked against panels.

Is there a season?

A pronounced one, and it is driven by weather twice over. Spring brings the fencing projects; winter storms bring the replacements, and both concentrate demand into short bursts.

Storm damage is the sharper case. A named storm that takes down fences across a region generates immediate demand across every merchant in it simultaneously, and supply and transport both tighten within days.

Merchants who plan spring capacity ahead fare better, and contractors with a standing arrangement get vehicles after a storm when callers do not. That is the same pattern as every weather-driven trade we serve.

Do you handle agricultural fencing?

Yes, and it is a different product mix. Stock fencing rolls, barbed and plain wire, straining posts, and field gates rather than panels and slotted concrete.

Wire rolls are dense and roll awkwardly, which makes them a securing problem rather than a weight one. Straining posts are heavy timber. Field gates are long, galvanised and easily scratched.

Farm delivery also brings its own access reality: a track that carries a tractor may not carry a loaded lorry, and the delivery point is frequently a field entrance rather than a yard. A grid reference or what3words location is worth more than a farm name.

Can you collect old fencing and waste?

Yes. A fencing replacement generates old panels, broken concrete and rotten posts, and a domestic job frequently has no skip.

Treated timber is the constraint. Old fence panels are treated timber, which does not follow the same recovery route as clean untreated wood, and concrete is inert waste with its own destination. Neither should go in a general load without that being known.

T&C Logistics holds Environment Agency upper tier registration CBDU654368 as a waste carrier, broker and dealer, so the disposal leg is carried lawfully with a waste transfer note. See our WEEE collection service.

Do you run merchant and contractor rounds?

Yes, and scheduled rounds are far cheaper than individual deliveries. Fencing contractors take repeat deliveries to a yard or to consecutive jobs, and merchants supply them on a cycle.

Contractors working a run of domestic jobs in an area are the natural routed customer: several small deliveries in a day beats one vehicle per job by a wide margin, and each customer gets a predictable slot.

Where a merchant serves several contractors, one arrangement covering the routine and the storm-driven urgent produces better pricing on both. See our timber and sheet materials delivery service.

How much fencing fits on one vehicle?

Fewer panels than people expect and far fewer concrete components. A 3.5-tonne vehicle with roughly a tonne of payload takes around twenty concrete posts, or a much larger number of timber panels, but not both in quantity.

The arithmetic is worth doing before booking. A typical domestic garden fence of fifteen metres needs roughly ten panels, eleven posts and eleven gravel boards — and if those posts and boards are concrete that is around 800 kilograms before the panels are counted.

Contractors ordering for several jobs at once routinely exceed a single vehicle without realising it, because they are counting panels. Counting the concrete first gives the right answer.

Can you deliver when nobody is home?

For fencing, more often than for most trades, because the goods are weatherproof by design and frequently going to a side passage or driveway rather than indoors.

What still has to be agreed is where. A signed instruction naming a specific location works; leaving materials at an unspecified property does not, and a driver making that judgement alone is a driver making the customer's decision for them.

Concrete components are the exception worth flagging. A pallet of posts left on a driveway is a substantial obstruction that a householder cannot move, and that needs to be a deliberate choice rather than a default.

Do you deliver decking and landscaping timber?

Yes, and it travels with the same constraints as fencing. Decking boards are long, treated and arrive wet from treatment; joists and frame timber are heavier and equally long.

The practical difference is that decking is a finished visible surface where a fence panel is not. Boards that get scuffed or stained in transit show in the finished deck, so they travel protected rather than simply restrained.

Sleepers are the heavy item in landscaping loads — a treated softwood sleeper runs 40 to 60 kilograms and an oak one considerably more, which puts a modest-looking order at payload quickly.

Composite decking behaves differently again. It is denser than timber, does not absorb treatment or water, and its boards are a finished surface from the moment they leave the factory, so it travels protected rather than simply stacked.

What does fencing delivery cost?

One fixed price per job, or a rate per drop on a standing arrangement, quoted upfront with fuel and goods-in-transit insurance included.

From £50 (ex VAT). Final price depends on distance, vehicle, urgency and time — quoted in full upfront. Related: timber and sheet materials delivery and nursery and garden centre delivery. Call 0121 720 3841 or use our contact page.