Road Freight across Italy and Europe
FTL, LTL and groupage across Italy and Europe, with cross-border customs handled in-house and every leg on the same file as your ocean and air bookings.
European road freight, run as one file
Road is rarely standalone. It is the first mile that feeds an ocean booking, the cross-border leg behind a customs file, the last mile to an Italian distribution centre. We run it as part of one file, not as a separate sub-contract.
FTL, LTL and groupage on one network
Dedicated trucks for full loads, partial loads on scheduled lanes, groupage for smaller flows — all on the same European partner network.
Cross-border without surprises
EU and EFTA customs handled by the same team that books the truck. No "the broker did not get the doc in time" excuses on a Friday afternoon at the Brenner.
Live milestone visibility
Pick-up, ETA, gate-in, border crossing and PoD update in the portal, documents included, as the truck moves — visible to the shipper, the correspondent and the operations team. The copilot answers about your shipment in thirty seconds; for decisions, a Ravenna operator answers.
Italy in, Italy out — and across the European network
Whatever the lane and whatever the cargo, road is the mode that ties everything else together. Delta Novel runs it with the same discipline as a deep-sea booking.
FTL — Full truck loads
Dedicated trailers (tilt, mega, reefer, flat-bed) on Italy-Europe and intra-Italy lanes, planned with named drivers and live ETAs.
LTL & groupage
Scheduled partial-load and groupage lanes for smaller volumes — Italy out and Italy in, with consolidated cross-border customs.
Cross-border customs
EU/EFTA transit, T1/T2, ATA carnet support and digital documents prepared by our customs desk before the truck moves.
First & last mile
Pre- and on-carriage between Italian ports/airports and shipper/consignee, including warehouse-to-port and last-mile distribution.
Reefer & temperature-controlled
Temperature-set trailers for food, pharma and sensitive cargo, with chain-of-custody documentation.
Oversized & special equipment
Mega-trailers, low-loaders and flat-beds for heavy, oversized and project cargo, coordinated with permits where required.
Pick-up coordination
Pick-up windows, dock slots, loading patterns and seal control are agreed before the truck rolls — so the warehouse and the driver work to the same plan.
- Confirmed dock and loading slot
- Seal control and loading photos where required
- Driver brief on cargo and documents
Cross-border execution
Italy-Germany, Italy-France, Italy-Benelux, Italy-Iberia and Italy-East Europe lanes run on a curated partner network, with our team holding the customs file end-to-end.
- Curated partner network on every lane
- T1/T2 and EU transit handled in-house
- Border-crossing milestones on the file
Dispatch & delivery planning
A dispatch coordinator owns the file: route, ETA, delivery slot and customer pre-alerts are aligned before the cargo rolls, and updated live as it moves.
- One coordinator per file
- Delivery slot pre-aligned with consignee
- Live ETA and PoD on the file
From booking to PoD
1 · Lane & equipment
Lane, equipment type and timing aligned with cargo and customs needs.
2 · Pickup & loading
Dock slot booked, driver briefed, loading supervised where required.
3 · Transit
Border crossings, transit times and ETAs tracked live on the file.
4 · Customs
EU/EFTA transit and import/export customs handled in-house.
5 · Delivery & PoD
Delivery slot honoured, PoD captured and recorded on the file.
Every shipment, every document, every milestone — in one portal.
Every Delta Novel service lands in the same portal: milestone timeline, route map, document status and warehouse arrivals, updated by the same operators who run your file.
Live shipment timeline
Booking, departure, transshipment, arrival, customs, delivery: every milestone recorded on the file, dated.
Document status
Bills of lading, invoices, certificates and customs paperwork in one place — ready or pending, never lost in email.
Route map visibility
Origin, transshipment and destination plotted on the route map for ocean, road and multimodal moves.
Related services
Road typically connects warehousing, customs and consolidation. These are the services we most often run on the same file.
Tell us about the lane
A weekly FTL, a recurring groupage flow, a cross-border project leg — the more you tell us upfront, the cleaner the plan we send back.