Hi Star,

Join Shed 5 that will be your best way to find reliable sub contractors, What area are you in?

Cheers Phil.

Hi Star,

Welcome to the forum

Unfortunately you'll need more than luck, read as much on the forum as you can, I'm a newbie and can tell you that it's hard work getting started.

Have you any experience of the business?

Cheers Phil.

Hi Guys,

Check out my new site and let me know what you think, It's a work in progress so feed back is appreciated,

www.Philholmesltd.vpweb.co.uk

Cheers Phil

Hi Rich, It's not an area that I would get involved in myself, but you have some insight having already worked in that field but, I have read about some real horror stories with the multidrop work about binding contracts that pin you down, excess charges and draconian management, you end up owing th...

Hi Simon,
I'm sure you're already wise to life as a courier but you'll get some good advise from the guys on the forum, Check out Shed 5, I'm already benefiting from the contacts that can be made on the site.
Cheers Phil

Hi Simon,

Welcome to the forum,I'm a newbie too, been on the forum since June, you'll find it useful, where are you based?

Cheers Phil

Hi Andy Bee, sorry if I offended you It was not my intention, rightly or wrongly I was just repeating what other members have said regarding Rico.
Cheers Phil

Hi It would be possible to get a van for that sort of money if you were maybe looking at a small van, but, you need to look for a low mileage clean vehicle and at that price you'll be limiting yourself. Read through the forum and check out other members comments, whilst you need to keep costs down I...

Hi Efe I hope all goes well with the cat C test, you will earn more money more easily with the truck driving, certainly compared to security work, the hours won't be any worse. I'm going the other way, I have C+E but have started doing courier work and as many will tell you on these forums it's not ...

Hi Brad Thanks for the feedback, they haven't responded to my email so I won't bother with them, common courtesy I would have thought, Any way I have found a smaller company nearer to me that offer a fair rate and pay both ways, so I'm optimistic that this will prove more fruitful, long winded regis...

Hi Guys I've just sent an email off to Atlas to try and see what they'll offer, has any of the forum members had any dealings with them recently, the few threads I've found are a bit brief, as they point out though the web site is very slick and they appear to run a large varied fleet. Anyone give s...

Hi Guys As with city links demise, they keep everything looking rosie on the face of it so the directors have enough time to set up else where using the subbies money before the main company slips beneath the waves glug! glug! glug! As to the Yodel finances I questioned the situation when driving tr...

Hi IRMA777 Thanks for the reply. the local subbie overflow situation was exactly the way I was thinking of going, that way I hope that I would be limiting my exposure, having read more about the plight of drivers who have taken up franchises with the big companies, multi drop would never ever have b...

Hi Enson Express Thanks for your comments, I take on board what you say about finding your own customer base, this I'm sure will take time, what's your take on the state of the market at the moment, are all the potential customers looking for the lowest common denominator without considering level o...

Hi Folks, Another Lamb to the slaughter, not completely new to the courier came, I worked for all the 'big uns' for ten years during the late 80's early 90's as a D R. back then I decided to give it up before it gave me up, the law of odds were starting to stack up, R I P to all those who didn't mak...