Croydon is the southern end of a lot of London routes.

Fleetable is a chilled food courier on contract for Croydon, running dedicated refrigerated routes to the town-centre restaurants, hotels and office catering and the retail and trade units along Purley Way. A Croydon-only round carries no congestion charge, and the A23 makes the town the natural southern anchor of a route that runs up into London. Priced per mile with every cost shown, a set driver and a backup on the round.

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The problem

Far enough out to be forgotten.

Croydon has the largest town centre in south London — a dense core of restaurants, hotels, office catering and casual dining, with the long retail and trade corridor of Purley Way beside it. What it does not have is the attention a central London site gets from a supplier. It is far enough out that it is the drop most likely to be dropped when a round runs late, and a site at the end of a round is a site that learns to expect the worst window.

How it works

Proven on one route first

So a Croydon site is sequenced on its own terms rather than as the tail of somebody else's round. Where the town is the southern anchor of a longer route, the drop with the hardest window goes first and the slack is spent at the easier end. A set driver holds it and a named backup sits behind them, and the mileage, loading, waiting and return leg are priced separately, so a longer run out from the centre is a number you can read rather than a reason to be deprioritised.

What the zone costs here

No congestion charge, and usually no ULEZ line either.

Croydon sits a long way outside the congestion charge zone, so a round that stays in the borough carries no congestion charge at all. ULEZ covers every London borough, but it is payable only by a vehicle that misses the emissions standard, so a compliant van pays nothing there either.

That makes an outer-London round cheaper to run than the same distance in the centre, and it is worth seeing rather than assuming: the charges appear as their own lines when they apply, and no line at all when they do not.

Where a group runs Croydon alongside sites further in, holding one standard across them is the subject of multi-site food delivery, so the far site is not quietly the worst-served one.

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.

Where to next

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does a Croydon route pay the congestion charge?

Not on a round that stays in the area — the zone is a long way north of it. ULEZ covers the whole of London but is payable only by a vehicle that misses the emissions standard, so both lines are often absent from a Croydon estimate.

Our Croydon site always gets the worst delivery slot. Why?

Usually because it sits at the end of somebody else's round. On a dedicated route the sequence is set by which window is hardest, not by which site is furthest, and the same set driver runs it each week.

Can a route run from Croydon up into central London?

Yes, and it is a common shape on the A23. It is priced per mile with the return leg on its own line, and any zone charge appears only on the drops that actually incur it.

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