Brick Freight Services

The usual mix is facing bricks, pavers, concrete blocks, retaining-wall units and packaged cement/mortar bags on pallets. Loads are weight-dominated, not cubic-dominated — a single pallet of bricks commonly runs 1.2–1.6 tonnes, and a full trailer hits legal mass limits well before it's full by volume. That shapes vehicle selection and load planning from the quote stage.

Building sites rarely have a forklift rated for tonne-plus pallets, especially residential builds and small commercial sites. A HIAB (truck-mounted crane) places pallets off the back of the truck directly where they're needed — over fences, onto upper levels, or metres inside the kerb. Crane trucks handle heavier or further-reach placements. For tight sites we confirm reach and capacity before dispatch.

Yes. Large builds rarely take all bricks on day one — storage, safety and site congestion constrain how much stock can land at once. Staged deliveries across days or weeks align to the bricklaying program, with site contact confirmation before each drop. Share the build schedule and pallet count per stage and we'll match deliveries to the critical path.

Under the Heavy Vehicle National Law, the sender shares responsibility for correct mass, dimension and load restraint. Bricks sit at or near legal mass limits, so accurate weight declarations and stable palletising matter — both for compliance and to avoid overload penalties at weigh stations. QFM confirms axle loading and restraint standards with the carrier before dispatch — see our CoR explainer for detail.

Yes — ongoing builder's-merchant and hardware yard replenishment is a standard use case. Weekly or multi-weekly programs run as scheduled lanes with full-trailer or B-Double allocation, axle-compliant load plans and consistent delivery windows. For new merchants, we set up the lane from a trial run and lock in the pattern.