Wandsworth is one shift away from the produce market.
Fleetable is a chilled food courier on contract for Wandsworth, running refrigerated routes to the restaurant strips around Northcote Road and Old York Road, the food and drink units of the Ram Quarter, and the kitchens through Earlsfield and Putney. Nine Elms is a short run east, so a market collection and a Wandsworth round fit inside one early shift. Priced per mile with every cost shown, a set driver and a backup on the round.
The problem
A high-street kitchen has nowhere to put a van.
Wandsworth's food trade is a high-street trade. The restaurant strips around Northcote Road, Battersea Rise and Old York Road are dense, independent and almost entirely without off-street loading, and the Ram Quarter has added more food and drink units to the same few roads. Add the one-way system around the town centre, which is quick when it is quick and immovable when it is not, and a delivery that arrives at the wrong hour has no way to recover.
How it works
Proven on one route first
So the round is run early, before the streets and the gyratory fill, and it is sequenced by road rather than by distance. The proximity to Nine Elms is the thing to exploit: a produce collection at the market and a Wandsworth round fit inside one shift, which is one vehicle and one driver rather than two of each. A set driver holds it with a named backup behind them, and the loading and waiting are priced per minute so kerbside time on a busy street is a line rather than a surprise.
One shift, two jobs
Collection and delivery on the same run.
Because the market is close, a Wandsworth route is often collection and delivery rather than delivery alone. That is one contract and one round, not two bookings, and it is priced as one — mileage, loading, waiting and the return leg on their own lines.
Whether it works depends on one thing rather than on the map: whether a single driver can hold the market window and the receiving windows on the same morning, every week. That is checked against your actual sites before anything is quoted.
The market end of that run, and what an overnight trading pattern makes possible, is on chilled food delivery in Battersea and Nine Elms, a short run east of here.
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 one route collect at the market and deliver in Wandsworth?
There is no loading bay outside our restaurant. How does that work?
Does a Wandsworth route pay the congestion charge?
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