UK Delivery Rate Dashboard

• Air delivery (UCH Logistics) 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 — Heathrow primary 12p/kg (min £25) or secondary 15p/kg (min £45), screening-only and airline-delivery-only options also priced; Manchester primary 10p/kg (min £12.50) or FREDDs & ETD 12p/kg (min £25), plus export warehouse handling at 3p/kg (min £15, capped £100). UCH screen all unknown cargo unless specifically told otherwise.
• On export, screening and warehouse handling sit outside the fuel calculation — UCH's own notes state fuel does not apply to screening, warehouse handling or storage. 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, whose card assumes stackable cargo throughout — their row shows 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. 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.
• 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.
• 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.