Blog
Welcome to the place where we share our thoughts on the freight industry
Our experienced team will be posting important information, comment on the present and future as well as tips on how to get the best from your freight partner.
Thanks for reading – The Espace Team
Espace sponsor Dawn’s skydive for Charity
Dawn Ellis, a Freight Account Manager, in our Lichfield office undertook a skydive on 25th October to raise £1000 for Breast Cancer Care. Well done Dawn! A great cause and achievement for you. Glad to have you back in one piece! If you would like to donate, please...
Helen Crooks, Director of Espace Europe meets David Cameron
European Road Freight Director, Helen Crooks met with David Cameron on 20th function in Oxford. After discussing England’s demise from the World Cup that day, the topic of conversation turned to freight and Helen explained how Espace operated in the European Road...
Need European Road Transport? That’s What We Do
With numerous agents all over Western and Eastern Europe, we can offer daily export and import delivery services for groupage, part and full load shipments. Our European network is so expansive that we can react to your enquiry quickly and at times place the vehicle...
Why Use a Forwarder Over a Carrier Direct?
1. Forwarders are focussed on service delivery. Carriers can often be focussed on filling their trailers. 2. Forwarders can use many different carriers and use spot rates in the market to get the best rate for their customers 3. Forwarders have the advantage of buying...
Shipping to Germany? Nicht ein problem!
Our German service rivals our French service for frequency of departures and shipments moved per month. With agents in Dusseldorf, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Nurenburg, we really have the whole of Germany covered. Part loads are loaded on our partner’s vehicles and...
Shipping to France? Look no further. Give us a go, what have you got Toulouse!
With the French export and import market accounting for 30% of our turnover, we can safely say we have a service second to none for this market. We have strategic partners in all regions of France, who collect and deliver both our import and export freight for us. We...
Our Express Freight Service
25% of our business nowadays is in the time critical delivery sector, which we serve through a special division called The Freight Emergency Service. Find out more in the video below...
European Road Freight Company New Admin Processes
Automating the processing of purchase invoices and the sending of sales invoices reduces cost and frees up time to spend on more business critical tasks. "We were working from 7 o’clock in the morning and Sundays to get all our invoices processed manually. Now we only...
Are driverless trucks a reality?
For years the concept of driverless cars was seen more as a flight of fancy but that is about to change. Google has already clocked up thousands of miles in a hybrid Prius, its autonomous car is a familiar sight on the California and Nevada highways. What’s more, BMW...
Road scams to watch out for
We’re worried about the rising cost of vehicle insurance at Espace Global Freight, it hits us hard and we know it hits our fellow motorists hard too. Sadly the cost of motor insurance is rising due to fraudulent claims by gangs of organised criminals that ‘stage’ car...