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Meat is cut to your order. There is no second one.

Fleetable runs meat and poultry delivery across London on contract — wholesale butchers and cutting rooms into restaurants, kitchens and multi-site groups. A set driver runs the round with a named backup behind them, the load travels insured on our own cover, and the rate is per mile with every cost shown. Meat is cut to your order, so the round is planned back from the time it has to be there. Proven on one route first.

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The problem

You cannot buy your own order back.

Meat and poultry are cut to a specification, usually the day before, and that makes the load unrepeatable: if it does not arrive there is nothing on a shelf in London that matches it. It is also the densest thing on the order — a small volume that weighs a great deal and carries the highest value per crate on the round. So it is contracted rather than booked by the job: a set driver who knows the collection point and the goods-in door, a named backup behind them, and one party answerable for the load from the moment it is loaded.

How it works

Proven on one route first

Send the collection points, the sites and the time each drop has to be there. We price the round per mile against the vehicle class the load needs, with loading, waiting and the return leg itemised. Then one route runs in parallel with your current provider — one set driver, one named backup — and you judge it on your own week before anything switches.

Also

A cap by weight, a load by value.

Meat is the load that makes buyers ask the liability question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a reassuring one. Goods on a Fleetable route move insured on our own cover, and the work is carried under RHA Conditions of Carriage 2026. Those conditions cap liability at £1,300 per tonne on the gross weight of goods lost, misdelivered or damaged — a published industry term, not a Fleetable invention, and the same cap whoever you contract with under them.

Read that cap next to a meat load and the arithmetic is worth doing before the route runs rather than after. It pays by weight, and meat is the category where weight and value part company most: a tonne of it is worth a great deal more than a tonne of most things a van carries, so on a full load the cap can sit below the invoice value of what is on board. The practical answer is not a longer paragraph on a website. It is telling us what a full load is worth before the first route is priced, so the cover, the class and the terms are set against the real number.

The cap, the edition and what is excluded are published rather than described in a sales call — they are set out on the conditions of carriage page, which is the document a procurement reviewer will ask for anyway.

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 run rounds for a wholesale butcher?
That is the common shape: one collection at the cutting room, a sequenced round into kitchens and shops, and the same set driver week after week. It is contracted per route and priced per mile, so the rate does not move with the market on the morning of the run.
Is this a chilled meat courier or a contract?
A contract. A courier prices the same job again each time it comes up; here capacity is retained for your routes at a rate agreed in advance, with a set driver and a named backup on the round. Where something has to move today rather than to a schedule, that is the same vehicle bought at a same-day rate instead.
Who carries the risk if a meat load is lost or damaged?
Fleetable does. Goods move insured on our own cover and the work is carried under RHA Conditions of Carriage 2026, which caps liability at £1,300 per tonne on the gross weight of goods lost, misdelivered or damaged. Meat is dense and valuable, so say what a full load is worth before the route starts — a cap by weight and a load by value are two different numbers.
Does the cold chain hold if you subcontract the vehicle?
The route is contracted to Fleetable rather than handed on: one set driver on the round, a named backup behind them, and one named contact when something has to be decided. What the load has to hold is set with you before the route is priced and confirmed against the vehicle booked for it, rather than published as a specification on a website.
How is it priced?
Per mile, with every cost shown — mileage, loading, return leg, surcharges. A typical dedicated London route runs around £95 ex VAT — a from-price, confirmed on your own routes.
Can we try it without switching?
Yes. We prove it on one route, run in parallel with your current provider. You judge it on your own traffic, then scale. Switch nothing until it works.

Start

Not a sales call. A diagnosis.

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