Chilled multi-drop routes across east London.
Fleetable is a chilled courier on contract across east London, running dedicated multi-drop routes through Shoreditch, Hackney, Bethnal Green, Bow and Newham for restaurants, bars, arch producers and kitchen sites running several brands. The drops sit close together, so the round is dense and the cost is in access rather than mileage. Priced per mile with every cost shown, a set driver and a backup on the round, proven on one route first.
The problem
Ten drops, ten different doors.
East London packs a lot of food businesses into a small area — restaurants and bars along the high streets, bakeries, roasters and small producers in railway arches and light-industrial units, and kitchen sites in Bow and Poplar running several brands out of one building. The drops are close together and each one has its own hard edge: a cellar hatch, a shared arch access road, a first-floor kitchen, or a bar whose staff do not arrive until late morning.
How it works
Proven on one route first
So the round is built around access, not around a map. Each site's real receiving window is recorded once and the sequence is planned to it, with a set driver who learns the doors and a named backup who can pick the round up. Density is what makes that backup meaningful rather than decorative — in an area this tight a second driver is genuinely close enough to reach the round in time. The rate is per mile with every cost shown, so a short, slow round is not quietly repriced as a long one.
The boundary
The zone runs through the western edge.
The congestion charge zone stops part-way across this area, which produces a genuinely odd result: two drops a few streets apart can sit on different sides of it, and one round can be charged while a near-identical one is not. The charge applies to every vehicle inside the zone, so what matters is whether the route actually enters — and that is a sequencing decision as much as a geography one.
It is shown as its own line rather than folded into the rate, so you can see which drops caused it. Where a round can be resequenced to stay outside the zone without missing a window, that is worth doing, and it is the kind of thing that only shows up once real addresses and real windows are on the table.
Kitchen sites running several brands out of one building are a case of their own, covered on dark and ghost kitchen delivery, where the handoff slot rather than the mileage sets the schedule.
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.
Does an east London route pay the congestion charge?
Can one round cover a dozen small drops?
Our unit is in a railway arch with no yard. Is that a problem?
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