Wow.. Not been on here for a while

Hope you are all doing ok.

A few must have thrown in the towel or retired by now.

Hi Guys Its been a while since I've popped my head in here. Anyone have any experience with air freight from dublin/Other Irish airport to the UK. I need to set up a nightly run over from Ireland to the UK. But we need to have the packages very early AM. UK Airport: Any London Cambridge Exeter Norwi...

I've now got 5 ex city sprint drivers working for me.
When they started with me they said city sprint were ok and not too bad. Within a few weeks they had all left CS and come on board with me full time.

And I don't even pay that well.

How come so many couriers put that they have access to a network of over 500 (?) couriers.

Great I need 247 drivers to start next week you should be able to cover it right?

Mike George wrote:Is it possible they own the car personally and claim the 45p a mile tax-free running cost?

Thats the most obvious answer. You dont need a receipt if your logging mileage and using the approved mileage allowance scheme

You only need the receipt if your claiming VAT back

Mate. As you failed to reply to my last post i have got my calculator out. Taking your figure of 23ppm Cost based on a 100 mile job. (no dead miles from your front door step.and 4 hours door to door. Royal Mail ' .50 pplm = £50.00 . You will do 200 miles ie 100 each way so your costs are £46 leavin...

Have Full Autoroute 2010 loaded on laptop ( also use it as sat nav with GPS ariel ) So have it with me at all times As Above mileage about 2% lower compared with vehicle mileage Vehicle mileage is linked to the speedo. Which is set to over read. Hence the discrepancy. On Avg its about 10% at 70mph ...

I've got to arrange 82 daily pickups to be done within a 4 hour window in london and around the M25 Bikes are the ONLY way.


Now to find 8-10 bikers who want 4 hrs per day.


This'll be fun.

MK BIKER wrote:Oh the irony of it

Thats what I thought too

Stormbringer1 wrote:hello ,well obviously forget about the pm i have just replied too.lol which contract has been lost???

Please tell me thats a Rex in your sig

Doh just spotted the reg. Need better glasses

Buy a better telly

Thanks for not biting Bob. My point was this insurance lark is one great big grey area. Insurance is based on risk. The 2 examples above are the same risk. But you can bet. There is a massive difference in price. I dont know about perfect pizza. But do they have employees or are they still using SE ...

GrahamB wrote:I took the time to phone my insurance broker today and got told that if you are NOT doing multi drop and only doing a maximum of 3 drops per day, light Haulage insurance is adequate.
Mind you it wasn't that much cheaper either

What if you do 100 pickups and only 1 drop

Ooh Ooh an Insurance thread. I was chatting with a mate the other day and this scenario crept up. 1: If I worked for say dixons and my job was to deliver to customers their brand new TV's then Dixons wouldnt need "carriage of goods for hire or reward" Just normal business use. 2: I own my own van an...

MK BIKER wrote:

aycanyumusak wrote: , they earns 50p per drop doing nothing,

Er not quite, how do you think the drops get to the depot?

Oh and the Depot must be free.

RIP Eddie Stobbart

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011 ... ie-stobart

Top ten worst URLs 1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is www.whorepresents.com 2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com 3. Look...

For " Niche market" read "The stuff nobody else wants to do".

I remember streethawk being overtaken by a van when it was doing its hiperthrust thingy.

Market research get a few designs..erm designed and try them out. There isnt a defined dead cert. But by asking opinions you may gauge feedback.

Or try and copy the big boys

Ian Simmins wrote:
I do remember it but I prefered Airhawk. Men like their choppers.

That'll be AIRWOLF then

Or Bluethunder.

Now who's showing their age hey.


DOH