UK Delivery Rate Dashboard

• Air delivery is a third mode. Heathrow and Manchester are separate cards with their own postcode zoning, weight breaks, formulas and fuel — the same postcode is often zoned very differently between them, so the airport selector matters. Heathrow: £8–£40 basic + 8p–40p/kg up to 500kg, then a flat heavy-weight band table to 5,000kg, plus a £35 import delivery surcharge, all × 20% fuel (the surcharge sits inside the fuel bracket, as printed). Manchester: £11–£38.50 basic + 9p–35.5p/kg to 200kg, a second table to 1,000kg, no import delivery surcharge, × 18% fuel. Above those ceilings, or on an "Ask" zone, it returns quote-on-request rather than extrapolating.
• UCH apply their own volumetric rule — 6m³ = 1,000kg (166.67 kg/m³) — which is not the 333.33 kg/m³ used by the LCL groupage suppliers. Chargeable weight is the greater of gross and volumetric.
• Air runs in both directions. Import is airport → UK address (the zonal delivery rate, plus Heathrow's £35 import delivery surcharge). Export is UK address → airport: the same zonal rate as a collection, plus Heathrow's £20 export collection surcharge, plus screening (see below), plus UCH's export warehouse handling at 3p/kg (min £15, capped £100). UCH screen all unknown cargo unless specifically told otherwise.
• Screening is priced automatically, at each supplier's primary rate, on every export quote — there's no menu to pick from, since with three suppliers each offering their own set of screening tiers a per-supplier dropdown became more confusing than useful. UCH Heathrow primary is 12p/kg (min £25); UCH Manchester primary is 10p/kg (min £12.50); Expressway primary is 6.5p/kg (min £10); Trilogy's XRAY screening is 6p/kg (min £10). Each supplier's other tiers (UCH secondary/screening-only/delivery-only, Expressway secondary, Trilogy ETD) are on their cards but not priced here — flag it if a shipment specifically needs one of those instead. The Screening column in the results shows the amount each supplier is actually charging. Expressway's book-in (handling) charge has been dropped from the tool entirely, since it only applies when goods arrive on another haulier, which isn't something this tool can know.
• On export, screening and warehouse handling sit outside the fuel calculation for every supplier — UCH's own notes state fuel does not apply to screening, warehouse handling or storage, and Expressway and Trilogy are calculated the same way here for consistency. Fuel applies to the transport leg and its collection surcharge only.
• Non-stackable, out-of-gauge, tail lift and HAZ are separate selections. Non-stackable prices with Expressway (£15 on their schedule) but returns no rate at all from UCH or Trilogy, both of whose cards assume stackable cargo throughout — their rows show the quotation-only note instead of a figure. Out of gauge suppresses all rates, because no supplier prices oversize cargo from a published card; it is also detected automatically from the dimensions entered, and Trilogy's own gauge limit is checked separately per zone (see below) since it's tighter than UCH's for some postcodes. Tail lift and HAZ are priced per supplier. Expressway: oversize or non-stackable £15, tail lift £25, HAZ aware £25, full ADR £50 (also AM/PM £15, timed 2-hour window £35, docs/labels £10 per set — not yet wired as options). UCH publish a £20 HAZ surcharge and, at Manchester only, £25 tail lift; non-stack, oversize and full ADR are quotation-only on their card, so the tool flags rather than prices them. Trilogy: tail lift £25 and HAZ aware £20 flat across all zones; full ADR is £25 but only in zones 6 & 7, POA everywhere else.
• Accepted piece size — UCH cover up to 200 × 120 × 170cm per piece; anything larger is "out of gauge" and needs a specific quotation. Manchester tightens this to 120 × 120 × 170cm for zones 8–10. The cargo step checks the dimensions you enter and flags a breach. Expressway stop quoting above 4,000kg and refer to their office. Trilogy accept 200 × 120 × 170cm for zones 1–7, tightened to 120 × 120 × 170cm for zones 8–12 — checked per zone once the postcode resolves, so the same piece can pass for a nearby zone and fail for a further one.
• Trilogy Freight (added 14 Sep 2026, source: their LHR tariff effective 1 July 2026): 0–500kg is a min + per-kg formula per zone (12 zones, colour-coded postcode index — ~274 outward-code ranges loaded); 501kg–5,000kg is a flat band table per zone, with zones 8–12 going POA above 2,250kg. Their fuel surcharge is confirmed at 18.07% (Trilogy, 14 Sep 2026) and is charged on every row. Trilogy calculate this live off diesel price — base band £1.00-£1.16/litre ex VAT, current £1.37/litre — so unlike a fixed weekly figure it moves with fuel prices; re-check trilogyfreight.com/fuel-surcharge/ periodically rather than treating 18.07% as locked in. Two entries in their own printed index don't parse as valid ranges (NE23-6 and NP10-8). Both zone numbers check out against Trilogy's own LHR Zone Map (NE23 sits in the Zone 7 patch, NP10 in the Zone 6 patch), so NE23 and NP10 specifically are now priced at Zone 7 and Zone 6; only the exact width of each range is still unconfirmed, so districts just either side of them (e.g. NE21/24, NP9/11) stay "not covered" unless already covered by another rule. A third (W10-9) has been read as the whole "W" area → Zone 2, matching how every other single-line area in their index is written, but is also worth confirming. Their screening (added 14 Sep 2026) is now priced automatically on export at their XRAY rate — see the screening bullet above; their card also lists ETD (10p/kg, min £45), Remote ETD (£75, 10p/kg), FREDDs (min £45, 15p/kg) and bundled "ALL INC" xray/secondary + handling rates, none of which are wired. Not wired as options (their own tariff has these, but they're additional to what's already tracked above): AM/PM, Early Closure, Timed 2-hour window, RA/KC SPX (£7), London Congestion Fee (£6, zones 1–2 only), and their separate depot-to-depot trunking table (LHR-MAN/GLA/ABZ/BHX/EXT) — see the source PDF for those.
• Pallet Force (EVCargo) — moved here from the LCL/part-load comparison (30 Sep 2026): it's an LHR-area pallet network for pickup and delivery around the air-freight leg, not a sea-port groupage service, so it belongs with Expressway and Trilogy rather than Palletways/Pallex/UPN/Riva. Quotes Heathrow only, same as Expressway and Trilogy, and drops out at Manchester. Unlike every other Air supplier here, it isn't priced off chargeable weight — it's priced by pallet tier and count, worked out from the same cargo lines (L×W×H×kg per line) using the same Micro/Quarter/Half/Full classification the LCL panel uses: a single pallet is priced by its own Qtr/Half/Full tier; 2–5 pallets are one flat consignment total off the tariff's own 2/3/4/5 columns rather than a per-pallet rate × count (this reading, especially for a mixed-size 2–5 pallet load, needs confirming with Pallet Force/EVCargo); 5+ pallets is that 5-pallet flat total plus a genuine per-pallet rate for each pallet above 5. Two rows are shown per postcode band — their published faster and slower service (usually 48hr/24hr; 72hr/48hr for the Channel Islands and Western Isles bands) — and their tariff has no direction-specific pricing at all, so the same rate shows on import and export. No fuel % is printed on their sheet, so it's left at 0% (base rate only) until Pallet Force/EVCargo confirm one. A couple of bands (PH8-13, and HS/KW15-17/ZE) are genuinely Price On Application for their faster service, shown as no published rate. One postcode reference (band 51's YO sub-range) printed cut off on the source PDF — inferred as YO7/21-22/60-62 from band 02's own exclusion wording, an inference rather than a printed figure. Surcharges per consignment (Before 10am £30, Before 12am £20, Saturday AM £75, Time Specific £25, Amazon £10, Book Window £10, Tail-Lift/Book-in FOC) and the three "Price and service on application" postcode groups (BT, Eire and GY9 Alderney & Sark offshore islands) aren't wired into the total, same treatment as every other supplier's un-wired accessorials.
• UPS Domestic (via FOX) — added 30 Sep 2026 from the "UPS Domestic - 2026" rate sheet (rate effective Jan 2026, LHR close-out 19:00hrs). Arisa confirmed (6 Oct 2026) that the rate is based on collection near LHR airport — FOX's own warehouse (the sheet also allows any UPS Access Point) — so it sits here with the other LHR suppliers rather than as its own mode, and shows on import only (a parcel leaving that warehouse; the sheet has no export/collection rate). Heathrow only, so it drops out at Manchester. It's a flat national rate with no postcode or zone, priced per piece: each cargo line's pieces × the weight band for one piece's chargeable weight, which is the greater of actual and volumetric (UPS's 1:5000 rule, L×W×H cm ÷ 5000). Bands run 5kg (£4.75) to 200kg (£44.76); above 200.5kg the sheet gives £0.25/kg, applied here to the whole chargeable weight (an assumed reading, not confirmed with UPS — rarely relevant since pieces are capped at 70kg). MRPP £4.75. Pieces over 70kg dead weight, 274cm long, or 400cm length+girth are not permitted in UPS's network and show no price. Fuel is unconfirmed (0%) — UPS's sheet says only "this month's Standard UPS published rate". Not added to the total, but flagged per piece when triggered: Large Package £59.30 (length+girth over 300cm, min chargeable 40kg), Additional Handling £12.70 (longest side over 100cm, second over 76cm, or over 25kg). Other reference-only charges: Over Maximum Limits £478, Undeliverable Shipments £6.50, Address Correction £10.80, Extended Area £0.77/kg or £39.50, Remote Area £0.95/kg or £47.00, Residential Delivery £1.95, Misc Handling £11.85, Shipping Charge Audit Fee £1.30/package or 8% of correction, Free Domicile Handling £18, Advancement Fee 5% (£15 min), NES Entries £15, Other Govt Agency Entry £14, Additional Tariff Line £3/line over 5, None Routine Formal Entry £15.50, Post Entry Clearance £53, refused-shipment fee £15, Storage £16/kg/day. Pre-09:00, Pre-12:00 and Saturday delivery are quotation-basis on the sheet.
• FRL (Front Runner Logistics) — added 24 Oct 2026 from the FRL tariff calculator (Daily Rates, Terms & Conditions) and its district-level postcode CSV. Daily service only (8am-6pm weekdays): 11 areas, rate = base + pence-per-kg in three bands (0-500, 501-1000, 1001-2000kg); anything heavier is a Special. Areas 1-5 next-day, 6-11 take 1-2 days. Chargeable weight is the greater of actual and 1,000kg per 6m³ (same as UCH). Fuel 20.75% as shown on their calculator (includes an emergency fuel surcharge, updated weekly) — applied to transport only on the basis that the calculator lists it against SUB TOTAL; worth confirming a live quote. Included automatically: £15 import collection on import, £50 out-of-gauge if a piece exceeds 130x130x170cm. Options: tail-lift £50 and limited DG £25. Not wired: 5hr window (£15-25) / 3hr window (£25-35), pre-midnight import collection (7p/kg, min £30), weekend import £50, £5 daily collection/return, £8 per pallet exchange, 3rd-party receiving 5p/kg (min £10), storage £12.50/100kg/day after 48hrs. Screening is not priced: FRL publish no screening or airline-delivery rate (quote via Screening@frontrunlog.co.uk), so on export the FRL row is transport only and will look cheaper than Expressway/Trilogy/UCH, which include screening — compare like for like before choosing. FRL also can't handle ETSF (per Arisa). FRL's own Information page still shows an older worked example and a £10 import-collection fee; the table (£15) and calculator were used. Non-stackable and full ADR return no rate. Postcodes the CSV marks OUT OF AREA (e.g. Scotland north of the central belt, Cornwall/Devon, most of Wales and Northern Ireland) show as outside the daily area.
• Still excluded: AM/PM and timed deliveries, waiting time, palletisation (£15/pallet), rework/breakdown on export (£0.06/kg + £10/pallet), and at Heathrow the £7/pallet charge where pallets can't be exchanged.