With the confirmation that the CAZ in Leeds will be going ahead, there is surely a need to consider how to alleviate the financial burden to businesses which are required to occasionally deliver to Leeds, but as most of their business is elsewhere cannot justify the cost to upgrade their vehicles. If the CAZ is […]
Last Mile Trikes Last Mile began working with TNT late last year and quickly realised that the profile of consignments we would be receiving, would be getting larger, and that we needed something larger than our workhorse Bullitts. For a good many months we have managed with an extra long Workcycles Bakfiets with electric assist. With […]
I recently attended the International Cargo Bike festival in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. It is striking how much the technology has moved on in the last 12 months. There was a whole host of cycle powered and vehicles present and I had the opportunity to ride several new vehicles which are either in prototype or […]
It has been a long process but to mark the formal constitution of our cross Pennine partnership Last Mile has a new logo. Obviously we have started with a cargo bike, in the purple shade which has become our company colour. This shade sets us apart from any other operators in the delivery sector and […]
We were recently approached by Careersoft who make short video vignettes for use in schools. They asked if they could make a video about the work we do and this is the result. If you are interested in working for us then see here.
It is clear that commercial users of cargo bikes have a huge variety of differing requirements. To some extent this might be determined by the bikes that they have within their fleet, but to a greater extent I suspect that they have tended towards bikes which fit the work in which they are engaged. Any […]
Recently, Last Mile Leeds has been taking on a new revenue stream, with bulk distribution of magazines across the city centre. We were first approached by ‘The Professional’ magazine to distribute their inaugural issue to every office premises we could find! Over the space of four days we delivered 60 boxes of magazines (totalling about […]
I drove to London this week to collect two new additions to our fleet of cargobikes. We haven’t taken our own pictures yet, but you can see that these Bella Bikes have a huge cargo box and possibly the most unusual steering mechanism seen on a cargobike. The rear wheel steering creates an incredibly manoeuverable […]
Last Mile Delivery Ltd has been registered with Companies House, and assuming they accept that the name is sufficiently unique, we should soon be incorporated. We spent some time deciding whether to become a Limited Liability Partnership, or a Limited Company, and eventually decided on the latter. Both offer the same limited liability protection and […]
We are always interested in alternative ways for customers to get their stuff. A new innovation are these Amazon lockers. This set appeared in the Merrion Centre last week and there are other similar sets in The Co-operative stores in Roundhay and Chapel Allerton. Our partners, DHL, effectively operate a similar (but low tech) system […]
