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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
We are only too aware that basing our business in a Safestore doesn’t necessarily give an impression of permanence. The nature of self-storage businesses is such that they are particularly attractive to those who want ‘space’ for an indefinite period, with no strings attached. In actual fact Safestore offers much more and there are good […]
Since Last Mile began working with DHL, I have had the opportunity to test out the cargo capacity of our Bullitts in real conditions – regularly filling the cargo boxes to capacity. Most of the time the packets we deliver are small and lightweight – occasionally bulky, but not very heavy. Nevertheless, when the boxes […]
About a month ago, Last Mile Leeds began a pilot with DHL. Starting with a couple of days out with two of their van drivers I got an insight into the job of a van courier.Then over the last month I have been delivering some of their smaller packets and parcels by cargo bike. It […]
