Shipping a gearbox is a case for the forwarder: even a car gearbox often weighs 50 to 100 kg, and truck and industrial gearboxes considerably more – too heavy and too sensitive for the parcel service, too urgent for groupage. Usually there is a concrete deadline behind it: the vehicle is on the lift, the plant in the works stands still, and the replacement gearbox has to get to the workshop or repairer as fast as possible.
Speed Logistics runs gearboxes as direct transport without transloading – from the engine repairer to the workshop, from the manufacturer to the spare-parts warehouse or from the plant to the industrial customer. The dispatch team is reachable around the clock, the fixed-price quote is on the table within a few hours, and for urgent cases correspondingly faster.
Which gearboxes we transport
- Car gearboxes: manual, automatic and dual-clutch gearboxes, individually or as a batch
- Truck and bus gearboxes for commercial-vehicle workshops and fleet operators
- Industrial gearboxes: spur, planetary and worm gears for plants and machines
- Exchange parts in the swap procedure: new part out, old part back in one run
Packaging: mesh box, pallet and oil safety
Gearboxes travel best in a mesh box or firmly bolted or lashed on a sturdy pallet, with padding on the housing and connection flanges. Oil safety is important: residual oil should be drained or the gearbox sealed tightly and secured with an absorbent underlay, so that nothing leaks en route. Speed Logistics secures the load with lashing straps and anti-slip mats and loads by tail lift when there is no ramp at the workshop or hall.
Express process for vehicle or machine stoppage
In a stoppage every hour counts. You give us the gearbox type, weight, pickup and destination address – the dispatch team plans backwards from the latest installation date and gives you a realistic arrival time. As a direct run the gearbox runs through without handling; within Germany, delivery is often possible the same day depending on distance. In the swap procedure the driver takes the old part directly back with them to the repairer.
Costs and international gearbox transports
Costs depend on the weight and packaging, distance, vehicle requirement and deadline pressure – a same-day direct run is calculated differently from a planned batch transport. Depending on lane and lead time you receive a binding fixed price without hidden surcharges. Internationally too, gearbox shipping with Speed Logistics is plannable: across Europe as a direct run, to non-EU countries such as Türkiye or North Africa including complete customs clearance from EXW to DDP.
Typical customers and use cases
Gearbox transports we run above all for three groups: car and commercial-vehicle workshops needing a replacement gearbox for a stationary customer vehicle; engine and gearbox repairers moving parts in the swap procedure with workshops across Germany and Europe; as well as industrial firms whose plant gearbox has to go to the manufacturer's plant for overhaul and back – often under hard deadline pressure, because the line is down.
For all cases the same principle applies: a heavy, oily and expensive component does not belong in a handling network. The direct run keeps the transport chain short, the handovers documented and the deadline reliable – and in the swap procedure, the combined outbound and return trip noticeably saves time and cost compared with two separate orders.