★★★★★ Used by UK businesses, brokers and fleet teams
High value. Long lead times. Specs you can't undo.
Chassis, bodybuilder, compliance, delivery dates. Each depends on the others holding.
Most delays start earlier than people think.
Everything starts with how the vehicle will actually be used. Chassis, body, spec, compliance all follow from there.
Tank capacity, jetting kit, PTO. Specialist builders, specialist timelines.
Box bodies, curtainsiders, flatbeds. Spec built around the payload, not the other way round.
Refuse, environmental fleets. Compliance and bodybuilder lead times dominate.
Skip handling, container transport. Hook capacity and chassis pairing, day one.
Fleet specs, driver spec, fuel efficiency across high-mileage operations.
Body, crane and payload spec locked together before anything is ordered.
No two HGV briefs look the same. The spec builds from the job.
Locked down in detail up front. Not renegotiated once the chassis is being built.
Manufacturer and bodybuilder, one timeline. We run both. They don't pass it between them.
What's actually possible. Not what sounded good on a quote.
Chassis to bodybuilder to delivery. Same person on the file from start to finish.
Very little of what we source sits on a forecourt. It's built, body-fitted and delivered.
Depending on vehicle type, spec and body build
Rigid chassis, standard spec: 12-18 weeks
Complex body builds: 20-28 weeks
Specialist or bespoke builds: 28-32 weeks+
Timing changes what options you still have
Start the conversation six months out and you've got room to hit your target delivery. Choose the right bodybuilder. Absorb any factory slippage.
Start it six weeks out, you're taking whatever's available. Which usually isn't what you needed.
We tell you what's actually realistic. Not the optimistic version.
What's realistic. What's possible. What's a bad idea, and why.
One contact your side. Manufacturer, bodybuilder, chassis engineer. They don't pass the project between them.
Slippages flagged early. Not the week of delivery.
Monthly at minimum. More when the project moves.
DAF, Scania, Volvo, Mercedes, MAN, Iveco, Renault. No allegiance. No quota.
First call to keys. They know the file, the spec, the bodybuilder, the timeline.
Tell us what you need. We'll come back with what's realistic.