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Next-day courier services in Stratford
A booked morning slot to a site gate or a workshop unit, with FORS accreditation on the vehicle and the induction arranged the day before.
Next-day courier service in Stratford
Tasito runs next-day courier work across Stratford, taking in the development sites by the park and the International Quarter, the small units over at Fish Island and Hackney Wick, the tech, studio and media businesses at Here East on the Olympic Park side, and the shopping centre, which receives through a service yard. Plant parts and construction materials to the sites, equipment and trade stock to the units, replenishment into the centre's booked windows.
More of this work ends at a gate than at a loading bay, and a gate is booked ahead in any case, which is why planning suits this address particularly well. The fleet holds FORS accreditation, renewed for 2026, and that is what takes a van through a Tier 1 gate instead of back out of it with the load aboard. The order goes in by 4pm carrying the gate and the slot, any induction is arranged while there is still room to arrange it, and the vehicle is held that evening against the pallet count and the address together.
The site gate, and why the accreditation decides it
Across Greater London the major construction and infrastructure work requires FORS accreditation of the vehicles that deliver to it, and a van arriving without it leaves again with the load still on board. Nowhere tests that more often than here.
Our accreditation was renewed for 2026. The audit covers driver training, fuel efficiency, emissions management and safety across every vehicle, and it is checked rather than claimed.
A site delivery wants the gate, the slot time, the site contact, and a note of any banksman or driver induction requirement. Inductions get arranged beforehand, never at the barrier, and a day's notice is what makes that routine rather than urgent. One distinction to keep clear, since the two are regularly conflated: FORS accredits the operator, ULEZ charges the vehicle, and the accreditation exempts nobody from the charge.
The unit work at Fish Island and Hackney Wick
Away from the sites, commercial space here is small-unit rather than warehouse scale. Studios, workshops, light manufacturing and food and drink producers occupy converted and purpose-built units at Fish Island and Hackney Wick.
Units on that scale mean modest consignments, nothing to lift with and frequently no yard, so those addresses get a short wheelbase at 450kg or a medium at 800kg unless the load asks for more. Sending a Luton to a workshop is the wrong answer even when the count argues for it, and having the address the evening before is how that is avoided.
The shopping centre is a third kind of job again, receiving through a service yard inside delivery windows booked in advance. That works to the centre's timetable rather than to ours, so send the window with the order and the morning is built around it.
Road closures, and choosing the day
When something is on at the stadium or the park, roads close, and on those days a delivery that usually takes twenty minutes off the A12 may not be possible at all.
Planning a day out means that question gets asked before you commit. Where we know of something on, we flag it at the point of ordering and put up an early run or the next morning instead, because paying a courier to sit outside a cordon is not a service. The everyday slow spots are the Bow interchange and the A12 southbound towards Blackwall, both peaks, and a morning slot sits in front of most of it.
The charging position
The Ultra Low Emission Zone covers this address, which puts £12.50 on a day where the van is not compliant. Compliant vans go into London as standard, and in the rare case where the right vehicle for a job is not one, you hear the £12.50 before it moves.
No Congestion Charge applies, and the route crosses no river, so no tunnel toll arises either. On charges alone that makes Stratford among the cheapest London addresses we serve, set against the £18 a day a City drop carries before anything else is counted.
What the vehicle is held against
Site work is palletised and heavy, so the class is matched to the count and to the access at the gate. Long wheelbase: 3.3m, three standard pallets or four Euro. Extra-long: 4.2m, four standard or five Euro. Luton: six of either inside 1,000kg. A tail lift on the box version is what gets a pallet off the vehicle at all where the site has no forklift, and materials or lengths that will not pass through a door go on the flat bed, 800kg across 2.7m.
Because the allocation is made the evening before, the van that turns up is the one the load and the gate both want. The fleet page lists every class, and UK pallet sizes explained covers the footprints.
Where Stratford work goes
South to the City and Canary Wharf, short runs both, and north to Enfield, the one north London pairing that makes sense from here.
Back out to Essex on the A12, where a morning departure clears the van before the afternoon builds. Because a next-day consignment travels on a planned route, a second collection here or a drop further down the A12 usually sits on the same vehicle.
Other services we run in Stratford
Same-day courier where the deadline falls today. Two-man delivery for consignments going inside a building rather than as far as a gate. Multi-drop taking in the sites and the unit estates. Planning, routing and sorting at a fixed rate where site deliveries come round week after week.
The full next-day courier service covers booking, slots and tracking.
Stratford questions
4pm, Monday to Friday, though for a site delivery the gate binds earlier than we do, since construction gates shut before offices. Send the site's cut-off and the slot is set against that instead.
Yes. FORS accreditation runs across the fleet and was renewed for 2026, which is what the major London sites ask for at the gate. A non-accredited courier on that kind of delivery risks the load being refused when it arrives.
The gate, the slot time, a site contact, and a note of any banksman or driver induction requirement. Inductions are set up beforehand, which is precisely what a day's notice leaves room for.
No, and the two get confused. FORS accredits the operator on safety, driver training, fuel efficiency and emissions management. ULEZ charges the vehicle, £12.50 for a day where it is not compliant, and no accreditation sets that aside.
Something small, unless you say otherwise. Those estates are studios and workshops with no forklifts and no yards, so a short or medium wheelbase is in and away much sooner than a Luton with nowhere to turn.
Yes. A tail lift on the box Luton moves the pallet between load floor and ground with nothing required at your end. Where there is a forklift, the curtain-side version is quicker, opening along the flank instead.
Worth asking when you order. With something on at the park or the stadium, roads close and a twenty-minute delivery can become impossible, so we will say so and put up an early run or the next morning rather than taking the booking and finding out on the day.
Not in charges. It is among the cheapest London addresses we serve: ULEZ applies, the Congestion Charge does not, and with no river to cross there is no tunnel toll. A City drop starts at £18 a day before anything else.
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