£/Mile Rate

    Courier Cost Per Mile UK — From £1.25/Mile on a Dedicated Van

    Courier cost per mile in the UK on a dedicated van — £1.25/mile with a £55 minimum. That's fuel, driver and van included. Long-distance direct usually beats pallet networks over ~100 miles.

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    Same-Day / Urgent

    Need a delivery today? Collection within 60–90 minutes, direct driver, status updates — your job goes straight to the front of the queue.

    Car from £1.25/mile · £55 minimum

    Flexible DeliveryTypically around 30% less

    Not in a rush? Flexi7 allows collection and delivery within seven days. We can match your delivery with suitable vehicle movements, subject to route suitability and availability.

    Ideal for furniture, marketplace pickups & non-urgent freight

    60–90 min collection often available Mainland UK direct van Driver-policy cover normally up to £5,000 Timing confirmed before booking

    60–90 min

    Urgent collection

    £1.25/mi

    From, £55 minimum

    Confirmed

    Before booking

    Up to £5k

    Goods-in-Transit

    Who books courier cost per mile guide

    Built around the exact urgency patterns of these operators.

    Finance teams comparing carriers
    Trades and contractors
    Small business owners
    Ops managers benchmarking rates
    One-off shippers
    Long-distance movers

    Typical urgent triggers

    If any of these sounds like today, request a quote and we will confirm the collection timing and vehicle before booking.

    Long-distance direct-van budget
    Pallet vs direct comparison
    Weekly recurring rate check
    Ad-hoc same-day cost
    2-man uplift maths
    Multi-drop rate estimate

    Why direct van beats a network for this

    Transparent £/mile rate
    Includes fuel and driver
    Cheaper than pallet over long distance
    One driver, one van, one POD

    What's in scope (and what isn't)

    We'd rather be honest about boundaries than take a job we can't do properly.

    What we do

    • £1.25/mile from the UK, £55 minimum
    • Fuel, driver and van included
    • Same-day and flexible tiers
    • 2-man and Luton uplifts costed at booking
    • Drivers insured for goods in transit up to £5,000

    What we don't

    • Hazardous goods requiring ADR licensing
    • Airside / airport-restricted deliveries
    • Temperature-controlled pharma-grade freight
    • Full HGV / articulated trailer freight
    • International (non-UK) collections and drops

    courier cost per mile guide — every UK city we cover

    Dedicated courier cost per mile guide landing page for every location below (295 cities and towns).

    Major cities

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    Greater London

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    West Midlands

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    Greater Manchester

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    West Yorkshire

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    Merseyside

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    South Yorkshire

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    Bristol

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    Leicestershire

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    Nottinghamshire

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    West Midlands

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    South Glamorgan

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    City of Glasgow

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    Hampshire

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    Buckinghamshire

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    Berkshire

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    West Midlands

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    Staffordshire

    East Midlands (19)

    Boston →Chesterfield →Corby →Derby →Grantham →Hinckley →Kettering →Lincoln →Loughborough →Mansfield →Matlock →Melton Mowbray →Newark-on-Trent →Northampton →Skegness →Spalding →Stamford →Wellingborough →Worksop →

    East of England (30)

    Basildon →Bedford →Bishop's Stortford →Braintree →Brentwood →Bury St Edmunds →Cambridge →Chelmsford →Clacton-on-Sea →Colchester →Dunstable →Felixstowe →Grays →Great Yarmouth →Harlow →Hemel Hempstead →Ipswich →King's Lynn →Lowestoft →Luton →Norwich →Peterborough →Southend-on-Sea →Southend-on-Sea →St Albans →Stevenage →Sudbury →Thetford →Watford →Welwyn Garden City →

    Greater London (33)

    Barking and Dagenham →Barnet →Bexley →Brent →Bromley →Camden →Croydon →Ealing →Enfield →Greenwich →Hackney →Hammersmith and Fulham →Haringey →Harrow →Havering →Heathrow →Hillingdon →Hounslow →Islington →Kensington and Chelsea →Kingston upon Thames →Lambeth →Lewisham →Merton →Newham →Redbridge →Richmond →Southwark →Sutton →Tower Hamlets →Waltham Forest →Wandsworth →Westminster →

    North East England (16)

    Alnwick →Berwick-upon-Tweed →Billingham →Bishop Auckland →Darlington →Durham →Gateshead →Hartlepool →Hexham →Middlesbrough →Morpeth →Newcastle upon Tyne →South Shields →Sunderland →Tynemouth →Washington →

    North West England (27)

    Barrow-in-Furness →Blackburn →Blackpool →Bolton →Burnley →Bury →Chester →Chorley →Crewe →Droylsden →Ellesmere Port →Kendal →Lancaster →Macclesfield →Northwich →Oldham →Penrith →Preston →Rochdale →Runcorn →Salford →Southport →St Helens →Stockport →Warrington →Wigan →Workington →

    Scotland (27)

    Aberdeen →Ayr →Coatbridge →Cumbernauld →Dumfries →Dundee →Dunfermline →East Kilbride →Edinburgh →Elgin →Falkirk →Fort William →Galashiels →Hamilton →Inverness →Kilmarnock →Kirkcaldy →Livingston →Motherwell →Musselburgh →Oban →Paisley →Perth →Peterhead →St Andrews →Stirling →Wick →

    South East England (49)

    Aldershot →Amersham →Andover →Ashford →Ashford →Aylesbury →Basingstoke →Bracknell →Brighton →Camberley →Canterbury →Chichester →Crawley →Dartford →Dover →Eastbourne →Epsom →Fareham →Farnborough →Farnham →Folkestone →Gravesend →Guildford →Hastings →Havant →High Wycombe →Horsham →Isle of Wight →Lewes →Maidenhead →Maidstone →Margate →Newbury →Oxford →Portsmouth →Reigate →Rochester →Sevenoaks →Sittingbourne →Slough →Staines-upon-Thames →Tonbridge →Tunbridge Wells →Weybridge →Winchester →Windsor →Woking →Wokingham →Worthing →

    South West England (25)

    Barnstaple →Bath →Bournemouth →Bridgwater →Cheltenham →Chippenham →Cirencester →Dorchester →Exeter →Gloucester →Newquay →Newton Abbot →Penzance →Plymouth →Poole →Salisbury →Stroud →Swindon →Taunton →Torquay →Trowbridge →Truro →Weston-super-Mare →Weymouth →Yeovil →

    Wales (16)

    Aberystwyth →Barry →Bridgend →Caernarfon →Carmarthen →Cwmbran →Haverfordwest →Llandudno →Llanelli →Merthyr Tydfil →Neath →Newport →Pontypridd →Rhyl →Swansea →Wrexham →

    West Midlands (19)

    Burton upon Trent →Cannock →Dudley →Hereford →Kidderminster →Lichfield →Nuneaton →Redditch →Royal Leamington Spa →Rugby →Shrewsbury →Solihull →Stafford →Stratford-upon-Avon →Tamworth →Telford →Walsall →Warwick →Worcester →

    Yorkshire and the Humber (17)

    Barnsley →Beverley →Bradford →Bridlington →Doncaster →Grimsby →Halifax →Harrogate →Huddersfield →Hull →Rotherham →Scarborough →Scunthorpe →Selby →Skipton →Wakefield →York →

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    courier cost per mile guide FAQs

    Is £1.25/mile one-way or round-trip?

    Priced on the loaded drive-distance from collection to drop. Return-leg is our cost, not yours.

    Any minimum?

    £55 minimum — covers short local hops where mileage alone would underprice the run.

    Does the £/mile change at night?

    Standard rate applies during working hours. Genuine out-of-hours (roughly 8pm–6am) carries an uplift, quoted upfront.