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Same-day courier services in London
Same-day courier across London, from the City and Canary Wharf to Croydon, Wembley and Park Royal. Book until 4pm, FORS-accredited vans.
Same-day courier service across London
Tasito provides dedicated same-day courier services across London and the surrounding business districts, including the City, Canary Wharf, Stratford, Greenwich, Croydon, Enfield, Wembley, Park Royal and Hammersmith. From urgent documents and trade stock to pallets, equipment and time-critical parts, we collect directly from your premises and transport the consignment straight to its destination in a vehicle matched to the load. With a FORS-accredited fleet and bookings taken until 4pm, we are set up for the access rules, charging zones and loading restrictions that come with moving goods across the capital.
Most of our London work is business-to-business: palletised stock, machine parts, print, and documents that have to be signed for by a named person on the same afternoon. One vehicle, one consignment, no depot transfers and nothing else on board.
What it costs to run a van in London
The Congestion Charge went up to £18 a day on 2 January 2026, the first rise since 2020. It applies in the central zone only, so a drop at Canary Wharf, Croydon, Greenwich or Enfield does not attract it and a drop in the City or the West End does. Electric vans get a 50 per cent discount.
Every London borough sits inside the Ultra Low Emission Zone, where a non-compliant van pays £12.50 a day. We send ULEZ-compliant vans into London, and if the right van for a job ever is not, we tell you about the £12.50 before we set off.
Crossing the river costs money in both directions now. The Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels both charge from 06:00 to 22:00 every day except Christmas Day, and each crossing is charged separately. On Auto Pay a large van pays £2.60 off-peak and £6.80 at peak. Without Auto Pay it is £6.80 at any chargeable hour. Peak is 06:00 to 10:00 northbound and 16:00 to 19:00 southbound, Monday to Friday, which makes a south London drop booked for late afternoon the most expensive version of the same job.
We tell you which of these applies before we set off rather than adding it to the invoice afterwards.
FORS, and why it matters more in London than anywhere else
Our fleet is FORS accredited and the accreditation was renewed for 2026. It is an audited standard covering safety, fuel efficiency, driver training and emissions management across the whole fleet, checked rather than claimed.
In London this stops being a badge and starts being access. Major infrastructure and construction sites across Greater London mandate FORS accreditation, and a non-accredited van gets turned away at the site gate with the load still on it. If your delivery is going to a Tier 1 contractor or a large development, the accreditation is the thing that gets the consignment through the gate rather than back to you.
Worth being precise about one thing, because the two get confused. FORS is an operator standard. ULEZ is a separate per-vehicle emissions charge and the accreditation does not exempt anyone from it.
Loading, parking and access
Timing decides more than distance here. The arterial approaches are heavy from about 06:30 to 09:30 and again from 16:00, and the river crossings concentrate it, with the Limehouse Link and the Blackwall approach both slower than the roads feeding them. The same job booked for mid-morning or early afternoon moves considerably faster, and we quote the real window rather than the clear-road one.
Once a van is in London the vehicle matters more than the route. Red routes and timed loading restrictions cover most of the arterial roads, the larger buildings in the City and at Canary Wharf run booked goods-in slots through basement service bays with height limits, and plenty of central addresses have no loading bay at all. Tell us the delivery address when you book and we will send the van that can reach it rather than the van that matches the pallet count.
What we send
We run eight vehicle classes. One pallet goes in a short wheelbase with a 2.1m load length and a 450kg payload. Two standard or three Euro pallets go in a medium wheelbase. Three standard or four Euro fit a long wheelbase at 3.3m, four standard or five Euro fit an extra-long at 4.2m, and six go in a Luton with a 4.2m by 2.0m by 2.1m load space and a 1,000kg payload.
The box Luton has a tail lift, which matters at any London address without a dock. The curtain-side version opens along the side instead for forklift loading. The Luton is also the one that struggles with basement bays, so for tower deliveries we normally come in smaller and split the load.
Luton dimensions and what fits goes through the weight and space question properly, and the fleet page has every class.
Other work we do in London
If the consignment is not urgent, next-day courier is cheaper and we can book a morning slot. If it needs two people at the other end, that is two-man delivery. If you are sending to several London addresses in one go, multi-drop puts them on one route instead of one van per drop, which is where most of the saving on London work sits.
Our same-day courier service has the full detail. If you are weighing it against a parcel network, what a courier is and how it differs is the honest version.
London questions
It depends where the nearest suitable van is and what time you call. Off-peak, most of the capital moves quickly. Between 06:30 and 09:30, and again from 16:00, the crossings and the arterial approaches add a long time to a short distance. Call and we will tell you where the nearest van is rather than quoting you a number off a page.
Only if the address is inside the central zone, which has been £18 a day since 2 January 2026. Canary Wharf, Croydon, Greenwich, Stratford and Enfield are all outside it. We tell you at booking which side of the line your address falls.
The tunnel toll. Blackwall and Silvertown both charge peak rates southbound between 16:00 and 19:00 on weekdays, so a large van pays £6.80 instead of £2.60. Booking the same job for the morning, or after 19:00, costs less for identical work.
This page carries the charging explanation and the vehicle rules that apply across the capital. For a specific address, the district page will tell you more: the Congestion Charge position, the loading access and the pinch points all change between Canary Wharf, Croydon, Enfield, Greenwich, Hammersmith, Park Royal, Stratford, Wembley and the City. If you are not sure which, give us the postcode and we will tell you.
Often not. Basement service bays have height limits and the Luton body sits well above its 2.1m internal height. For tower deliveries we normally send a long wheelbase and split the load. Tell us the building at booking and we will check rather than turning up and failing.
4pm, Monday to Friday, and that applies across the whole fleet rather than only the small vans. Availability on the day decides the rest, so a 3:50pm call for a Luton is tighter than the same call for a short wheelbase. If the drop is south of the river, earlier is materially better.
Yes. A fair amount of our London work is legal and financial documents into the City and Canary Wharf, signed for by a named person. That goes in the smallest van we have rather than a Luton.
Yes, and it is normally cheaper than separate jobs because you pay the London leg once. Chelmsford, Basildon and Brentwood all sit on the way in.
Send us the postcodes and what is moving. You get a price in seconds and a driver within the hour.