Services

AST Express provides pallet delivery throughout the UK & Ireland, as well as offering a European pallet delivery service. Our wide range of distribution and delivery services include the following features, all provided free of charge:

Instant pallet tracking
Online POD availability
Increased insurance liability
Tail lift delivery

We offer an online booking service to enable you to book easily and quickly at a time that suits you and we never add a fuel surcharge.

AST Express is a Member of TPN - THE Pallet Network, which we joined in 2002. We have remained with TPN because we believe it offers us and our clients the best possible distribution service for palletised freight available in the UK. With more than 100 Members and over 120 sites throughout the UK, it offer excellent service levels for next-day, timed or economy deliveries for any palletised goods.

Here are a few reasons why the TPN network will be a boon to your business.

Its service levels are second to none and, with great IT, excellent regional members and superlative IT systems, its operation is now peak proof. Even when volumes climb, TPN service stays strong.
With the largest number of depots throughout the UK, TPN offers unrivalled postcode coverage and national service.
Both Hub and member operations are accredited to ISO 9001 for quality assurance. All TPN Members including ourselves, are rigorously audited every year.
TPN’s IT, Connect lets you enter your jobs online; print your own labels, so you know the details are right; track your pallets all the way to their final destination; and it’ll give you real-time automated updates en route, including the moment your customer signs for their delivery through the award-winning electronic POD system. The TPN App – TAPP – gives you all your pallet network information from your Android mobile or iPhone.
TPN has purpose-built Hub facilities in Minworth and two regional Hubs at Preston and Northampton.
It has links to Europe and Scandinavia, and TPN.ie, its sister network in Ireland.

You can download TPN’s customer brochure here. You can also find out more from the TPN website, or follow us on twitter. If you'd like to visit the TPN Hub, just give AST Express a call to arrange it.

TPN – We are THE Pallet Network.