Our fleet: vans to 52-pallet double-deckers
Around 150 temperature-controlled vehicles across six sizes. Our own vehicles, our own drivers.
"I didn't realise you ran artics." We get some version of that on nearly every first visit to the yard. Most people meet us through a small van dropping a single sample and reasonably assume that's the whole operation. Then they see the rest: around 150 vehicles across six sizes, up to a 52-pallet double-decker trailer.
Why the size range matters
A fleet with one vehicle size makes every job that size. Ours lets us match the vehicle to the load: a single case of samples goes on a van, a store delivery on a rigid, a full RDC load on an artic, and the biggest depot-to-depot runs on double-deck equipment. It catches people the other way too: book us for full loads and we'll still run a single case into a city centre for you.
The six sizes
| Vehicle | Capacity | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Small van | Single cases | Samples, single cases, urgent drops |
| 3.5t box Luton | 1–2 pallets | Multi-drop and smaller multi-parcel consignments |
| 7.5t rigid | 4–5 pallets | Multi-drop into city centres, retail back doors and restaurants |
| 18t rigid | 14–16 pallets | Larger multi-drop, foodservice and regional distribution |
| Artic | 26 pallets | Full loads, trunking and depot-to-depot |
| Double-decker | 52 pallets | Maximum-efficiency trunking |
Most of the range in one frame, at the Leeds depot.
Our own vehicles, our own drivers
The nationwide network runs on our own fleet and our own employed drivers, working from four depots, with a trusted partner extending coverage across Scotland via a nightly trunk. When it's your fleet, you control the standard the whole way: the vehicle spec, the maintenance, the driver who turns up at your customer's door. A fair few "national" carriers hand freight to a subcontractor by mid-afternoon. Worth asking any carrier whose van your freight actually ends up on.
Temperature capability across the range
The whole fleet is multi-temperature: vehicles run frozen at −15°C or chilled at 0°C to +5°C, monitored continuously and recorded per consignment, and dual-zone equipment carries both bands at once behind the same doors.
Where the fleet is heading
We're trialling a 100% electric refrigerated van on urban delivery work, gathering real-world data for the next fleet cycle while the technology matures for chilled and frozen at range. Behind the vehicles, solar panels power the Leeds and Luton sites, and route optimisation software plans every day's work to cut empty miles.
Kept on the road properly
We're a founder member of the DVSA Earned Recognition scheme, which means the DVSA monitors our maintenance and compliance data directly instead of stopping our vehicles to check. It's an accreditation few operators our size hold, and it exists because fleet upkeep is the unglamorous half of cold-chain reliability. More on our accreditations page.
Chilled. Frozen. Delivered.
Tell us what you need to move and we'll come back with a clear, no-obligation quote.