Dairy is the order that repeats every day.
Fleetable moves dairy across London on contract rather than by the job — milk, cheese, butter and yoghurt into kitchens, cafés and multi-site groups on a standing round. A set driver runs it, with a named backup behind them, and the rate is per mile with every cost shown. A daily order is priced as a week of routes instead of five separate quotes. We prove it on one route first.
The problem
Five deliveries a week, five separate quotes.
Dairy is the line on the order that never varies: the same sites, the same crates, five or six mornings a week, and short-dated enough that nobody stocks a spare day of it. Booked job by job that becomes five quotes a week at whatever the morning's rate is, and a different driver learning your back door each time. So the whole week is contracted as one round instead — a set driver who knows the delivery point and the crate count, a named backup who has run the same order, and one rate agreed in advance.
How it works
Proven on one route first
Send the round as you actually run it — the sites, the window each one needs and the days it goes out. We price it per mile against the vehicle class the crates need, with loading, waiting and the return leg on their own lines. Then one route runs in parallel with your current provider, one set driver and one named backup, and you judge it on your own mornings.
Also
Why a small daily drop costs what it does.
A route invoices at a floor of £95 ex VAT. That number is the whole of the small-order problem: below it the price stops tracking the work, because one crate and forty crates both need a vehicle and a driver for the same hour. Dairy runs into it more than any other load, since the order is small, daily and unglamorous — five drops a week at the floor is a very different figure from one delivery a week at the floor.
The way out is density rather than a smaller vehicle. The miles between sites are what the round costs, so a drop added to a route that already passes the street costs the door time and the detour rather than a whole vehicle, and two sites in the same postcode are cheaper together than either is alone. That is the first thing worth checking before anyone quotes a rate: what else of yours is moving on the same morning, and how far apart it all sits.
Everything above assumes the load is held cold from the collection to the last site, which is the ordinary condition of a dairy round rather than an extra on it. What sits underneath it is chilled food delivery on contract, with a set driver and a named backup on the round.
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.
Do you deliver milk to a business rather than a household?
Can cheese, butter and yoghurt go on the same round as the milk?
We need one small drop a day. Is that worth contracting?
What if a driver does not show?
How is it priced?
Can we try it without switching?
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