Services · Mobile app development · Logistics apps
We build apps for London hauliers, container operators and fleet managers whose trucks run between the Thames ports, the sheds around the M25 and sites inside Greater London. Logistics app development London operators need has to cope with HGV safety permits, night and weekend lorry restrictions, port collection slots and construction delivery windows, while keeping every driver inside their hours. Our driver app, planning board and customer tracking put those rules into the job itself.
Codeeo has a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. We have no London office or staff in the city; we work remotely with London fleets, and all discovery and reviews take place by video call.
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Built for London freight
A heavy goods vehicle entering Greater London carries obligations that do not apply in most other cities. Lorries over 12 tonnes need a valid HGV safety permit from Transport for London under the Direct Vision Standard, and since October 2024 that means a three star rating or the Progressive Safe System fitted. Vehicles over 18 tonnes using restricted roads at night or at weekends need permission under the London Lorry Control Scheme, run by London Councils. Add container slots at London Gateway and Tilbury, timed gates on construction sites and tight kerbside access, and planning becomes a compliance exercise as much as a routing one.
We build apps that hold those rules as data. A planner cannot send an unpermitted vehicle into London, a night trip is checked against the restricted road network, and the driver sees the site rules before arrival. These are the pieces London fleets ask for, ordered roughly by how often they come up in discovery calls with transport managers here.
Each vehicle over 12 tonnes carries its Direct Vision Standard star rating, permit status and the safety equipment fitted. When a hire vehicle or a new tractor unit joins the fleet, the app flags it until a permit is confirmed, so it never appears on a London job by accident.
No penalty notices for an unpermitted lorry.
Jobs planned between late evening and early morning, or across the weekend, are tested against the London Lorry Control Scheme. If the route leaves the excluded road network for a vehicle over 18 tonnes, the planner sees that a permission and route conditions are needed before the job is released.
Out of hours deliveries planned without a breach.
Port bookings for London Gateway and Tilbury attached to each container job, with the slot time, container number, seal and release status. Drivers see whether a box is ready before they set off, and planners rearrange the day when a vessel runs late rather than finding out at the gate.
Fewer wasted trips to the quay.
Many London building sites run booked delivery slots, logistics plans and holding areas. The app stores each site's gate, slot and banksman contact, warns the driver if they are running late for a window, and records arrival and offload times for the contractor.
Deliveries that arrive when the site can take them.
Loading bay heights, height restricted approaches, preferred entrances and offload instructions saved against each address and shown at the right moment. Notes added by one driver help the next, which matters for a delivery to a Docklands tower or a Park Royal unit off a narrow service road.
Less time circling and fewer failed offloads.
A port run, a slow M25 and a site wait can use a driver's day before the last drop. The planning board shows remaining driving and duty time from your tachograph analysis provider, so planners swap drivers or split loads before a breach rather than after.
Fewer hours infringements on congested days.
Daily checks include the safety equipment the permit depends on: cameras, sensors, side guards and audible warnings. A failed camera is logged as a defect that affects permit compliance, and the workshop sees it straight away.
Permit conditions kept true day to day.
Dartford Crossing charges, permit references and other trip costs logged against the job and vehicle, so nothing is missed and each customer can be recharged accurately where your contract allows it.
Trip costs captured before month end.
Live position, arrival estimate and signed proof for every consignment, shared by link. Consignees in busy buildings can prepare goods in or a loading bay instead of sending the driver away. This is what most buyers mean by logistics tracking app development London customers will actually use.
Faster offloads at the receiving end.
Many London operators trunk full loads from distribution sheds near the M25 junctions, then break them down for smaller vehicles closer to the centre. The app links the trunk leg and the onward drops as one consignment, so a delay on the motorway updates every delivery that depends on it and the customer sees one honest arrival time.
One consignment record across trunk and final legs.
Who this is for
Freight in London is not one market. A container haulier at the Essex ports, a construction logistics firm feeding sites in the City and an own account fleet delivering to stores inside the North Circular each face different rules and timing. We start with your vehicle weights, your hours of operation and the places you serve, because those decide which London schemes affect you and what the first release must handle. A fleet of 7.5 tonne rigids, for example, sits below both permit thresholds, while a mixed fleet of artics and rigids may need two sets of rules on the same planning board.
Your day is shaped by port slots, vessel delays and empty returns to depots in Essex and Kent. We build around the container: booking, release, collection, delivery, return. Planners see which boxes are ready, which drivers have hours left for a second run, and which customers have not yet confirmed an offload slot for the following morning. Weekend vessel calls and Monday backlogs are planned on the same board, with returns to empty depots shown as their own jobs so nobody forgets a box that is costing demurrage.
Port community system integration depends on the access your operator account allows.
Sites in central London often require booked slots, approved vehicles and drivers with suitable training before a lorry may enter. We hold each site's requirements in the app, check vehicle and driver eligibility before allocation, and give contractors a record of every arrival, wait and offload time. Waiting time is recorded automatically, which gives you evidence when a site holds a driver for hours and you want to charge for it.
Retail and wholesale groups running their own HGVs into London face the same permit and lorry control rules as hauliers. We connect the fleet app to your order system so store deliveries become planned trips, and night deliveries are checked against restricted roads before they are confirmed.
Quiet night delivery arrangements with local councils can be recorded per store.
Smaller London operators often run on WhatsApp, paper defect books and a planner's memory. That works until a public inquiry or a lost claim. We build a focused first app covering checks, job sheets and proof of delivery, then add permits and customer tracking once drivers trust it. Working with logistics mobile app developers London fleets can brief remotely keeps that first step small and affordable to change.
How we work together
Most London hauliers start with a fixed scope release focused on the area causing most pain, often permits and checks or port collections, and then continue with a monthly retainer for further features. Larger groups with an internal IT function sometimes take a dedicated team that works inside their own planning cycle. Whichever model you choose, we work remotely, run every review by video call and never promise office hours we cannot keep. Teams searching for fleet management app development London options often start with telematics dashboards; we connect to those rather than replace them, so your existing contracts and vehicle hardware keep earning their place.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Offline capable driver apps for Android and iOS, a cloud backend in a UK or EU region, browser dashboards for planners, and integrations with telematics, tachograph analysis, mapping and accounts systems through their published APIs. We pick widely used tools so another developer could maintain the platform later. Maps use commercial vehicle routing so height, weight and width limits on London streets are respected, and the driver app keeps working in underground loading bays where signal drops, syncing once the truck is back on the street.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on the first release, which we fix in discovery.
A driver app with checks, job sheets and proof of delivery is quicker to deliver than a platform that also handles HGV permits, lorry control permissions, port bookings and customer tracking. The number of integrations and how quickly your drivers can join a pilot also matter. We set the timeline after discovery and put it in writing, then show progress in regular video demonstrations so you can see the dates holding. Waiting for a port account or a third party API key is the most common cause of delay, so we request access in the first week.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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