How much money do you reckon you can earn with a white van?
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Evening all
So, the missus had her 4ft fish tank collected this evening by some couriers, who are gonna shift it 200 miles up to Manchester for 80 quid.... He had a shed load of other stuff in there too (including a 5ft tank as it happened!).
I'd love a simple courier driving job, lugging a big old Transit up and down the country.
Let's say he does 10 pick ups a day at an average of £60 quid. £600 quid a day, less say £200/day for petrol & the van. So, £400/day for c.220 days a year = £88k/year.
I'd almost consider jacking in the job for that. But I must be way off somewhere with the maths. Less pickups? Lowever average fair? Light on the fuel?
Anyone got some real numbers to share?? Anyone wanna go in business with me??
Cheers
RS
So, the missus had her 4ft fish tank collected this evening by some couriers, who are gonna shift it 200 miles up to Manchester for 80 quid.... He had a shed load of other stuff in there too (including a 5ft tank as it happened!).
I'd love a simple courier driving job, lugging a big old Transit up and down the country.
Let's say he does 10 pick ups a day at an average of £60 quid. £600 quid a day, less say £200/day for petrol & the van. So, £400/day for c.220 days a year = £88k/year.
I'd almost consider jacking in the job for that. But I must be way off somewhere with the maths. Less pickups? Lowever average fair? Light on the fuel?
Anyone got some real numbers to share?? Anyone wanna go in business with me??
Cheers
RS
rfn said:
10 pick ups a day? Not entirely sure that's a reasonable figure. I reckon you'd be lucky to average 2 or 3 a day to be honest!
+1No way you'd get 10 pick ups unless you were lucky enough to get them all from the same area going to the same area. To earn £60-£80 you're looking at a couple of hours each way, thats 4 hours for one delivery and unless you have a big network partner with collections for you then you're running empty on the way home earning nothing
If you are serious, check out this forum, it even tells you how to set up as a courier.
http://www.codforum.org.uk/
http://www.codforum.org.uk/
Cod forum is brilliant and tells it how it is, you need a decent van with goods in transit insurance, general insurance through what i've read can be over a 1000 a year.
Forget 600 a day it doesn't happen, you may make that a week or even more but when you take into consideration, fuel, wear and tear insurances etc.
I read the codforum the other night for around 2 hours, it looks like 70 hours a week plus are not uncommon to make a living.
Still a few do it so if it was that bad they'd go and work cleaning or mcdonalds whatever for 6 quid an hour.
Forget 600 a day it doesn't happen, you may make that a week or even more but when you take into consideration, fuel, wear and tear insurances etc.
I read the codforum the other night for around 2 hours, it looks like 70 hours a week plus are not uncommon to make a living.
Still a few do it so if it was that bad they'd go and work cleaning or mcdonalds whatever for 6 quid an hour.
This just about sums it up.
http://www.courierology.co.uk/instant-guide.php
Still if anyone knows of a lucrative white van job i can do part time i'm all ears, i'm up for a bit of extra cash.
http://www.courierology.co.uk/instant-guide.php
Still if anyone knows of a lucrative white van job i can do part time i'm all ears, i'm up for a bit of extra cash.
Edited by CHIEF on Friday 4th September 11:04
M3RMS said:
Evening all
So, the missus had her 4ft fish tank collected this evening by some couriers, who are gonna shift it 200 miles up to Manchester for 80 quid.... He had a shed load of other stuff in there too (including a 5ft tank as it happened!).
I'd love a simple courier driving job, lugging a big old Transit up and down the country.
Let's say he does 10 pick ups a day at an average of £60 quid. £600 quid a day, less say £200/day for petrol & the van. So, £400/day for c.220 days a year = £88k/year.
I'd almost consider jacking in the job for that. But I must be way off somewhere with the maths. Less pickups? Lowever average fair? Light on the fuel?
Anyone got some real numbers to share?? Anyone wanna go in business with me??
Cheers
RS
Do you know how much it would cost in marketing to get £88k of business in a year?So, the missus had her 4ft fish tank collected this evening by some couriers, who are gonna shift it 200 miles up to Manchester for 80 quid.... He had a shed load of other stuff in there too (including a 5ft tank as it happened!).
I'd love a simple courier driving job, lugging a big old Transit up and down the country.
Let's say he does 10 pick ups a day at an average of £60 quid. £600 quid a day, less say £200/day for petrol & the van. So, £400/day for c.220 days a year = £88k/year.
I'd almost consider jacking in the job for that. But I must be way off somewhere with the maths. Less pickups? Lowever average fair? Light on the fuel?
Anyone got some real numbers to share?? Anyone wanna go in business with me??
Cheers
RS
If I was fully booked out for what I do, I would be banking £250k a year. However, back to reality, decent jobs are a lot fewer, and to get those cost money.
What you have described only works if you have a limited scope, and then it would be a lot of work, and a struggle to even net £20k a year.
From my experience the bigger you are, the easier it is to run nearer to capacity (exclude sub-contracting/temping/employment-like-jobs).
One man with a Van would be lucky to run at 25% capacity over the year unless of course you are sub-contracting for another business, but then your rates will almost definately drop in order to secure the business.
One man with a Van would be lucky to run at 25% capacity over the year unless of course you are sub-contracting for another business, but then your rates will almost definately drop in order to secure the business.
I have a chap coming to move my sofa and bed to my new place down the road for about £50. Our van is too small for the mattress. They chap I called does exactly what the OP mentioned, man with a luton van doing small removals that the larger companies dont want.
It is a good market as said before if the work comes in, plus I imagine it is largely cash based which has some benefits.
The problem would be getting the work in. He got recommended by someone at a larger removal company, so word of mouth would play a big part - and that takes a long time to build up from experience!
It is a good market as said before if the work comes in, plus I imagine it is largely cash based which has some benefits.
The problem would be getting the work in. He got recommended by someone at a larger removal company, so word of mouth would play a big part - and that takes a long time to build up from experience!
Edited by TheCarpetCleaner on Sunday 6th September 21:16
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