Tyre Courier

A tyre is the least demanding thing on this site to carry and the most commonly mispriced. It is not fragile, not temperature-sensitive, not regulated as dangerous goods, and essentially indifferent to how it is handled - and it is bulky out of all proportion to its weight. A passenger car tyre runs roughly 7 to 12 kg depending on size, a van or 4x4 tyre 12 to 20 kg, and a truck tyre 60 to 80 kg. So a vehicle quoted on payload will be wildly wrong: a small van is full at around 15 to 20 car tyres having used a fraction of its 500 kg, and a Luton van takes roughly 100 to 150 depending on size and how they stack. The other half of tyre work is the scrap leg, where the constraint is not space but registration - waste tyres are controlled waste and banned from landfill.

Why does volume decide the vehicle?

Because a tyre is mostly air with a stiff casing round it. A 205/55R16 passenger tyre is about 630 mm across and 205 mm wide, which is a bounding volume of roughly 0.06 cubic metres for something weighing under 10 kg.

Multiply that out and the arithmetic is stark. A small van's 1.0 cubic metre is full at around 15 to 20 car tyres, with the payload barely touched. The counts below are approximate because stacking matters — tyres nest slightly when columned and not at all when laid loose — but they are the right order of magnitude to plan with, and far more useful than a weight.

What size and type should I tell you?

The tyre size and the count, and whether they are on rims. Those three facts settle the vehicle, and the last one changes the arithmetic more than people expect — a tyre on a rim is far heavier and stacks much worse than a loose casing.

Truck and agricultural tyres are a different proposition again: a single truck tyre at 60 to 80 kg on a rim becomes a two-person lift, and an agricultural tyre may need lifting plant. So give the size designation if you have it, the count, and whether rims are fitted. For a mixed consignment, the count by category is enough.

Can you collect scrap tyres?

Yes, and this is where the regulation sits rather than in the carriage. Waste tyres are controlled waste — not hazardous waste, which is a common confusion — and both whole and shredded tyres are banned from landfill, so they have to go to a permitted facility.

T&C Logistics Ltd is registered with the Environment Agency as an upper tier waste carrier, broker and dealer under registration number CBDU654368, registered 20 August 2026 and valid to 20 August 2029. You can verify that on the Waste Carriers and Brokers Public Register for England by searching the number rather than taking our word for it. The broker and dealer roles are the commercially useful ones, because arranging for a permitted facility to take the tyres is what a managed collection actually is. We carry and arrange; we do not treat, shred or recycle, and any recovery documentation comes from the facility that did the work.

Who sends and receives tyres?

Tyre distributors and wholesalers restocking depots, fast-fit and independent garages taking in stock and sending out scrap, motor factors, fleet workshops, motorsport teams, and plant and agricultural dealers moving large casings.

The two-way pattern is characteristic of the trade: a garage takes delivery of new tyres and has a bay full of scrap that needs removing, often on the same visit. Because the vehicle is already there and going back, that return leg usually costs very little compared with arranging a separate collection — and it is worth asking for at the same time rather than later. See tyre delivery and tyre distribution.

Can one run deliver and collect at the same time?

Yes, and it is the efficient way to do it — but the sequence matters. A vehicle arriving full of new stock has no room for scrap until it has unloaded, so a combined visit needs the delivery to come off before the collection goes on.

That sounds obvious and is the commonest reason a combined booking goes wrong on a multi-drop round: by the third garage the vehicle is carrying scrap from the first two and the new stock for the third no longer fits. So tell us the full round at quote stage with the counts in both directions, and we plan the loading to match rather than discovering it at the second stop. Where the volumes do not work, two vehicles or two visits is the honest answer and we will say so.

Can you run a scheduled round?

Yes, and for a distributor or a group of workshops a standing run is the most efficient way to buy a dedicated vehicle, because the return leg is known in advance and priced into the rate rather than carried as empty space.

What we need to set one up is the site list with access notes, the frequency, and the typical counts in each direction. In return you get the same vehicle class each time, a predictable price and a driver who knows each bay — which on a fast-fit site with a single access and cars on ramps saves more time than routing does. Where volumes fluctuate we size the regular vehicle to the normal week and quote the overflow separately.

Can you move a single urgent tyre?

Yes, and it is a more common job than the volume arithmetic suggests. A garage with a vehicle on a ramp and the wrong size in stock needs one tyre from a sister branch or a wholesaler, and the value of the delivery is the bay it frees rather than the tyre.

That is a small-van job and the cheapest thing on this page. What makes it work is the same as any urgent parts run: the collection point has to know the tyre is being collected and by whom, it has to be picked and at the counter before the driver arrives, and somebody at the garage has to be able to receive it. Give us a collection reference and the garage's closing time, and we quote a realistic window rather than a standard figure. See time-critical delivery.

What about motorsport and specialist tyres?

Handled, and usually as a timed job rather than a volume one. A race or rally team needs sets at a circuit for a session, so the arrival time is the requirement and the count is secondary.

Two practical differences from trade work. Circuit access has its own rules — a paddock pass, a gate procedure and often a window — so give us those with the booking rather than the postcode alone. And specialist tyres are frequently high-value and sometimes compound-sensitive to heat, so if the set must not sit in a hot vehicle, say so and the run is planned for it. A dedicated vehicle can hold a timed arrival because it waits on no hub sort, which is the whole reason this work does not go on a network.

What about access at a garage or depot?

Usually straightforward, and occasionally the hard part. A fast-fit unit on a retail park has a forecourt full of customer cars and a single roller door; a trade counter may have a kerbside drop only.

Tyres are hand-balled rather than palletised in most of this trade, which means the handling is a chain of people rather than a forklift, and time on site is a real cost. So two things help the quote: say whether the vehicle can get close to the bay or has to park on a forecourt, and say whether somebody will be free to help unload or whether the driver is on their own. A single driver hand-balling 150 tyres across a forecourt is a long job and should be priced as one rather than discovered.

What does tyre delivery cost?

From £50 (ex VAT) for the smallest dedicated job, quoted as one fixed price before you book. Final price depends on distance, vehicle, urgency and time - quoted in full upfront before you book, with fuel and goods-in-transit cover inside the figure.

What insurance applies, and how do I book?

Goods-in-transit cover of £50,000 per consignment, extending to £1,000,000 through partner carriers where the value requires it, plus public liability of £1,000,000. Limits and exclusions are in our terms. Held credentials include an Operator's Licence, Driver CPC, ADR driver certification, Environment Agency upper tier waste registration CBDU654368 and a ULEZ-compliant fleet; the list is on our licences page.

1. Call 0121 720 3841 for the office or +44 7963 400173 for dispatch. Enquiries are taken around the clock and answered between 06:00 and 22:00, seven days a week.
2. Give the count and the size designation, and say whether they are on rims.
3. Say whether the job is a delivery, a scrap collection, or both on one visit.
4. For a combined visit, give the counts in both directions so the loading can be planned.
5. Say whether the vehicle can reach the bay and whether anyone will help unload.
6. For scrap, confirm the destination is a permitted facility or ask us to arrange one.
7. Accept the fixed price and a vetted driver-partner from our 3,000-plus network is assigned.

T&C Logistics Ltd is Companies House number 16838210. Related: car parts, car batteries, tyre delivery service, motor factor delivery and automotive logistics. Or request a quote online. Google Reviews rating 5.0★.