Weekly European groupage between the UK and Europe, import and export, from our offices in Leeds and Glasgow. Trailers usually leave every Friday, and transit is typically 4 to 6 days from departure, depending on customs.
You pay for the pallet spaces your goods take, not a whole trailer. We collect, consolidate at our cross-dock and deliver within the consignee’s delivery window. UK import and export customs clearance is available.
Weekly, usually every Friday, from Leeds and Glasgow.
Typically 4 to 6 days from departure, depending on customs.
From a single pallet. Larger consignments, around 4 to 5 pallets and up, can be collected on their own trailer, subject to availability.
If you ship every week, we can hold fixed weekly space for you.
On request. Send the full ADR details and we will confirm whether we can carry them.
Moving a full trailer? See our road freight service for full and part loads.
Groupage, also called consolidated freight, brings consignments from several shippers together on one trailer. Your goods move through a cross‑dock terminal, where they are combined and loaded with other shipments heading the same way. You are charged for the pallet spaces or weight you use rather than the whole vehicle. It suits regular, smaller volumes that would be expensive to move on a dedicated truck. Once a consignment fills a trailer, it moves as full or part-load road freight instead.
Eurogate has experience supporting customers across a wide range of sectors, from food and packaging through to packed chemicals, construction equipment and specialist consignments outside standard pallet formats. The Group also has a strong track record supporting sectors such as oil and gas, engineering, steel fabrication and energy.
Eurogate’s services are delivered through experienced teams who manage lanes across their regions, coordinate between markets where required, and support customers from collection to delivery. That includes customs management, local market guidance, and direct communication throughout the movement.
Provide your pallet count, weight and destination. Our office will confirm the next available departure and reserve the trailer space your goods need.
At the cross-dock your consignment is sorted and loaded with other freight bound the same way, so the trailer runs full and the cost is shared.
For a leg that crosses an EU border, the office that booked the consignment prepares the export and import declarations in-house as part of the same booking.
The service runs on schedule. Your goods are delivered within the consignee’s delivery window, and proof of delivery is provided to you.
The structure depends on the route, the consignment and the level of support required. Features may include the following:
Scheduled departures
Consolidation from one pallet
Own cross-dock terminal
Customs cleared in-house on cross-border legs
ADR groupage where permitted
Priced by pallet or weight
Groupage is shared-trailer road freight. Smaller consignments from different shippers are consolidated into one trailer that runs on a fixed schedule, so each shipper pays only for the space or weight their goods use rather than a whole vehicle.
By the space your consignment occupies, measured in pallet spaces or chargeable weight, rather than per trailer. Because the cost of the trip is shared across several shippers, it is the economical option for regular smaller volumes.
Groupage moves on fixed weekly schedules and includes consolidation, so transit is planned rather than direct and is usually a little longer than a dedicated full load. We confirm the departure and expected delivery when we quote.
From a single pallet upwards. If your goods are smaller than that, provide the dimensions and weight so we can consolidate them onto the next suitable departure.
Yes. Our UK customs desk files import and export declarations in-house on HMRC's Customs Declaration Service, handled by the same office that books and consolidates the consignment.
When your cargo fills a trailer, or needs to travel direct without consolidation stops, a full or part load on our road freight service is usually faster. See the Road Freight page, or tell us the volume and we will advise.
Send the addresses, the pallets and the date. Our UK groupage team replies with a price.
