Keeping Music, The Arts

Live Events on the Road

our clients

WHAT WE DO

Touring

Whether it’s over one hundred tractor trailers for the biggest tour of the year or a 3.5 tonne trailer requirement for a club booking, we can provide the right vehicle for you. We also know that budgets have never been tighter despite tours never being bigger, and we work hard to help you get to the best possible solution at a great price.

This is where we started and we’re one of the most prestigious touring transport companies for a reason – our client list speaks for itself.

FESTIVALS

We have taken backline to every festival in Europe for thousands of music acts and our trucks are a fixture at all of them as a result of our expertise in this field.

One Off Events

We are experienced in providing transport for one off and pop-up events in the UK and Europe for a range of brands and private events.

Exhibitions

Let us take your show on the road; we can provide you with tailored transport solutions for any size of exhibition to destinations across the UK and throughout Europe.

Conferences

Whether you’re promoting your brand or working with conference and sporting clients, we can help. Our expertise includes delivering at the Olympics, major food and retail expos, and industry conferences of all sizes.

General Haulage

We have a proven track record of delivering on time, every time and have experience of carrying every type of load, making us the perfect choice for short-term or long-term general haulage contracts.

sleeper Trailer

Providing accommodation for crew or guests can be costly and complex; our sleeper trailers offer an ideal solution with 24-berth bunks, air conditioning, charging points, and cosy duvets. Click here to see more...

Storage

We can provide safe and secure storage at our bases in Hampshire, Leeds and The Netherlands.

Container Collection

We are experienced in container collection and one of our specialisms is being able to take a tour straight from the dockside to the road.

ATA CARNETS

Stagetruck have their own bond with the Chamber of Commerce, and issue and print carnets for clients large and small to travel securely across the Globe.

how we work

All our vehicles are REGISTERED IN EUROPE for complete freedom of movement

We provide EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE of roads, countries and localised events to help you plan the routing of your tour for maximum economy and efficiency

We have the most ADVANCED AND SUSTAINABLE FLEET available to ensure minimised carbon emissions for all touring

We have TRACKING APPLICATIONS on all our vehicles so we can follow their progress in real time

We provide tour planning knowledge and SUSTAINABILITY EXPERTISE to minimise carbon emissions

We work closely with LOCAL PROMOTERS to ensure all country and city driving permits are in place for a smooth journey

We support all our vehicles with a 365 day a year EUROPE-WIDE BREAKDOWN AND RECOVERY NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

We are EXPERT IN PLANNING FOR LONG DRIVES requiring multiple drivers, regularly flying in from one to four additional drivers per tractor to maximise the distance travelled per vehicle in the shortest time available

Our strategic planning team have hands-on experience of touring, ensuring we can offer you THE BEST SOLUTIONS AND PRACTICAL KNOLEDGE for intricate and demanding tours.

We issue ATA CARNETS
IN-HOUSE. These vital documents are passports for the equipment we carry, allowing for freedom of movement between territories and saving vital time between destinations.

We can work with your promotors to ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION OF DRIVER VISAS for Turkey and other non-EU countries

We ensure all our vehicles are maintained to a standard EXCEEDING THE MANUFACTURERS RECOMMENDATIONS by our in-house technical team

THE TEAM

The OFFICE TEAM

We have an expert team who are well versed in planning and executing every aspect of tours and transport. Quotations, route planning, carnet and permits can all be quickly turned around by our head office, many of whom started their careers driving with us, giving them expert knowledge of what’s needed on the road.

The Drivers

Our drivers, many of whom have been with us for decades, are all integral to the success of Stagetruck and the reason so many of our clients keep returning to us. We are hugely proud of them all and their extensive experience and dedication is at the heart of our reputation.

the FLEET

Our fleet is made up of DAF XG and DAF XF tractors, as well as a growing fleet of Volvo FHs and MAN eHGVs.

We were pioneers in maintaining freedom of movement through Europe and all our vehicles are registered in the EU to allow for this. We have trailer units of varying capacity and type for every requirement. 

Sustainability

We were the first touring company to purchase and run our own electric tractors, and we are pioneering the use of HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil), an advanced fuel alternative which reduces fuel emissions by 88%. 

Having run the biggest tours to date on HVO for both Coldplay and Ed Sheeran, as a transport group we have learned exactly how to seamlessly build this sustainable fuel choice into tour planning, and would love to work with other artists and events to do this.

We're also expert in tour planning to minimise carbon emissions and advising in other ways to reduce carbon in touring and events. In addition to this we have two state of the art electric tractors based in The Netherlands which are available to utilise in the UK and Europe.

We also undertake all our vehicle maintenance in-house, saving thousands of wasted miles on transports between external workshops.

We are honoured to be contributing our sustainability expertise to a music industry wide study led by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) into the environmental impact of the live music industry backed by Coldplay with a view to create a framework for reducing tour emissions by fifty per cent.