Delivery · Birmingham
Our partner couriers in Birmingham collect your goods from your warehouse, your wholesaler or your central kitchen as production ends, then hand them over to your customers, in Birmingham itself as well as in Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull or Walsall.
The city centre, inside the Middleway, is a Clean Air Zone day and night, and the bus lanes keep their own hours. From the moment you book, we fit each handover into the window the address allows, and we tell you straight away if a slot cannot be met. Then someone on our team follows the job through to delivery.
Birmingham’s rules
Since June 2021, the city centre within the A4540 Middleway ring road has been a Class D Clean Air Zone, in operation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. A diesel van below Euro 6, or a petrol van below Euro 4, pays £8 a day there. We send a compliant vehicle, at no charge to you.
The zone stops at the edge of the ring road: driving on the Middleway costs nothing. An address just outside can therefore be delivered without entering the zone, and our planning and routing algorithms know it before they draw up the round.
A bus lane whose sign shows no times is in force 24 hours a day, and no vehicle stops in it during its hours. On Harborne Road, since 12 June 2026, it operates Monday to Saturday from 7am to 10am and from 4pm to 7pm. We time each stop outside those hours.
The city enforces some moving traffic offences by camera: at the junction of Newhall Street and Great Charles Queensway (A4400), both the left and the right turn are banned. A bus lane or moving traffic penalty costs £70, halved if paid within 21 days. Our routes avoid those turns.
When there is no other way, the City Council allows a vehicle to park in a loading bay, a limited-waiting bay or a residents’ bay: the dispensation costs £23.90 per vehicle per day and must be applied for at least 48 hours in advance.
Local rules checked in October 2026.
Birmingham and the West Midlands
Delivering in Birmingham means allowing for three things. Its centre, inside the Middleway, is a Clean Air Zone in force at all hours; its bus lanes have their own hours, posted on each lane’s signs; and cameras enforce certain banned turns. Around it, six other boroughs form the West Midlands Combined Authority with the city, from Wolverhampton to Coventry. A successful delivery there depends on the route and the time of arrival as much as on the distance.
The vehicle loads at your site, your warehouse, a wholesaler or your central kitchen, then delivers straight to your recipients, with no depot or sorting along the way. It ranges from a van to a 20 m³ truck, depending on the volume to carry.
Most of our jobs have several stops: we group them into a round, in the order that keeps to each customer’s delivery time and to the bus lanes’ hours. That is how our same-day delivery works in Birmingham.
Most of what we do is refrigerated transport on rounds, chilled as well as frozen. We collect at night or before dawn from wholesalers and central kitchens, and our night deliveries hand your products over to your customers before they open to the public, in a vehicle brought to temperature before loading.
A bus lane that is in force when the courier gets there, a loading bay that is taken, a recipient who does not answer: our team deals with it, calls the customer or the courier, and sorts the problem out. That follow-up is what costs your teams the most time, far more than the journey, and we take it on. Someone answers from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, and your dashboard keeps the real-time tracking, the photos and the delivery signatures.
Birmingham is as much a starting point as a destination. A round that loads in Dudley or Sandwell can deliver to central Birmingham the same morning, and another can leave the West Midlands to deliver elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
What we do in Birmingham
Same-day delivery and refrigerated transport each have a page for Birmingham: the first because the centre’s bus lanes and enforcement cameras shape every route, the second because our refrigerated rounds run there at night and deliver to your customers before they open to the public. Our other services are available here as everywhere we deliver.
You order in the morning and we deliver within the day, at a time that allows for the bus lanes and the camera-enforced junctions.
See the serviceOur night rounds deliver your chilled products at 0–4 °C and frozen products at −20 °C, from central kitchens and wholesalers to restaurants, shops and supermarkets.
See the serviceFrequently asked questions
The seven boroughs of the West Midlands Combined Authority: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Beyond them, we deliver across the whole of the United Kingdom.
No. The zone covers the centre inside the Middleway, day and night, and applies to vans, lorries and cars. We send a compliant vehicle there: diesel Euro 6, petrol Euro 4 or electric. There is no charge to pay and no standard to check on your side.
A non-compliant vehicle would pay £8 a day for a van and £50 for a lorry, and a charge left unpaid becomes a £120 penalty.
Yes, outside the hours when the lane is in force, which its signs show. We set the delivery time when you book, and if we cannot meet it, we tell you then rather than on the day of delivery.
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Tell us your collection points, your delivery addresses and the time each customer takes delivery. We will come back with the vehicle, the order of the stops and a time for each one.