horse box hire in east sussex

[lisa_lou]

Hello, desperately trying to find a self drive horse box to use this sat. Just purchased a 11.2 section a (absolutley beautiful!!) pony from grantham in lincolnshire and im in hastings (175 miles each way) Rang around all the local hire places, rye, polegate, northiam, brighton etc and all are booked up already at such short notice. Does anyone know any others i can try or know anyone who might lend their small 3.5 tonnes horsebox to a very experienced driver, 60 yrs old with a full clean licence. Need it to be this saturday as the pony will be gone by the following weekend,
Many thanks.

 

[Twiglet]

Does it need to be a 3.5ton? This is run by a friend of mine in Surrey (not sure how far she'd be from you, or en route?), she might have it available:
http://www.equineshuttle.co.uk/

 

[JessPickle]

Halfpass on here has a self drive business in east sussex here http://www.horseboxselfdrive.co.uk/ however not sure she'd have space at such short notice.

If you get desperate I use horsewize (its not self drive though) however he is very reasonable and just a generally nice person http://www.horsewize.co.uk/acatalog/Horse_Transport.html

 

[ace123]

Bloody hell Lisa.
I thought you had lorry on standby.
I'll look as well.

 

[toomanyhorses26]

I know you have said self drive but I use a fab bloke from Maidstone who is very reasonable and is generally a really nice person to deal with - R&S Transport 01622 717696 . He is a one man band and travels all the horses himself but I recently had him for a all day show/clinic and he only changed me £100 (plus tea and cake as standard! )

 

[alsxx]

I use these people, based in Worthing so a bit of a trek from you. http://www.selfdrivehorseboxhiresussex.co.uk/

We have it booked for saturday, but they cahrge £90 a day, and £50 for half a day. Box drives well and is very economical on fuel!

 

[gummybear]

Have you tried Hoofmove? They may already be booked, but worth a try

 

[Halfpass]

Thanks Jess but think they have already spoken to us!! Sorry we couldn't be of any help lisa_lou. If it helps we have no one using it during the week.