Nine Elms trades overnight. That is the best window in London.
Fleetable is a chilled food courier on contract for Battersea and Nine Elms — collections at the wholesale produce market and refrigerated drops to the restaurants and food units around Battersea Power Station and beyond. The market trades overnight, so a round can be loaded in the small hours and finished before kitchens open. Priced per mile with every cost shown, a set driver and a backup on the round, proven on one route first.
The problem
Produce bought at 04:00 is worth nothing at 14:00.
New Covent Garden Market at Nine Elms is the country's largest wholesale fresh produce market and it supplies a large share of London's restaurants and caterers. Its trade runs overnight and the buying is largely finished before most kitchens open, which is exactly the point: fresh produce bought early is only worth the early start if it reaches the kitchen while it is still early. A collection that slips to mid-morning has already lost most of what it was for.
How it works
Proven on one route first
So a Nine Elms route is built around that window rather than around office hours. The vehicle collects while the market is trading and runs a sequenced round to land before service, with a set driver who knows the buyer, the stand and the loading area, and a named backup behind them for the weeks the first cannot run it. Loading and waiting are priced per minute with 15 minutes included on each, and the mileage and return leg are separate lines, so a fast round is visibly cheaper than a slow one.
An address, not a depot
Fleetable's registered office is an arch at the market.
Fleetable is registered at Arch 71, New Covent Garden Market, London SW8 5PP. It is worth being plain about what that is and is not: it is the company's registered address, not a depot, a hub or a yard. Fleetable owns no vans and holds no vehicles anywhere — capacity is contracted route by route, which is what keeps a van off your cost line between deliveries.
What the address does mean is that the market is familiar ground. The trading pattern, the loading areas and the hour the buying actually finishes are the details that decide whether a produce route works, and they are not the sort of thing you learn from a map.
The rest of the south London picture, and how the river shapes a round, is on food delivery logistics in south London, which is the sub-region this area anchors.
Proof
Reliability you can check.
A backup on every route
Primary and backup, always. A sick day never leaves a site short.
Chilled, checked before each job
Food-safe vehicles, kept to temperature the whole route.
Live tracking and proof of delivery
Time and temperature at every drop, with proof your finance team can check.
One named contact
One person who knows your routes — not a call centre.
Drivers checked to your standard. Chilled, food-safe vehicles. Proof at every drop.
Accreditations added as contracts require.
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FAQ
Questions, answered.
Can you collect from New Covent Garden Market?
Do you have a depot at the market?
How early can a produce round start?
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