Transport for the funeral service
Your chosen funeral director will have access to a fleet of vehicles to meet your needs.
There are a range of funeral transport options available. The usual choice of vehicle is the motorised hearse, followed by a number of limousines of your choice to transport close friends and family of the deceased to and from the ceremony.
Transport for close friends and family members can be either their own cars or limousines as a part of the cortege.
However, other types of funeral transport are available including:
- Traditional horse drawn hearse
- Motorcycle hearse
- Motorised hearse in alternative colours (e.g. pink, green, white, etc)
- Vintage lorry hearse
- 4x4 hearse
- Volkswagon (camper van style) hearse
Your local funeral director can advise on availability, practicality and costs on a range of available funeral transport options.
It’s important to specify if you will need wheelchair access to your funeral director upon arranging the funeral transport.
Choosing something more unusual can help make a funeral a fitting tribute to your loved one and the list above is not exhaustive of the range of options available. For example, the family of a farmer decided a tractor and trailer was the most fitting mode of transport for the loved one’s final journey.
Discuss your thoughts and ideas with your local funeral director and they will do everything they can to help.
The cortege journey
The hearse and following vehicles are known as a ‘cortege.’ You funeral director will ask where the cortege will travel to and from and if you would like the cortege to take a particular route.
As the deceased’s final journey, you may wish the cortege to travel a special route to the ceremony in order to pass a point of significance to the deceased (such as a place of work or leisure).