Sending Full Pallets to Ireland

[sanguinary]

We have issues with our current haulage firm, so are thinking about looking for an alternative. We send anything between 1 and 10 pallets through the week from Newcastle to Southern Ireland; Cork, Galway and Dublin.

The only stipulation being is we need a tail lift and reasonably quick delivery times - around 4 days.

Can anyone recommend a firm or two?

[Eric Mc]

Dublin is not in southern Ireland. It's actually eastern Ireland. Galway is southwest.

[sanguinary]

Apologies, maybe I should have said Eire.

[Justin Cyder]

Hi Sanguinary. I can help you with that, it's what I do for a living. I've dropped you a pm that may point you in the right direction.

[Eric Mc]

sanguinary said:

Apologies, maybe I should have said Eire.

Republic of Ireland is fine
Eire is OK too (at least, that's what they put on their stamps).

As a former member of that esteemed land it does bug me a bit that so many Brits refer to the country as Southern Ireland. It's not its proper name and never has been. And, as I often point out, there are parts of "Southern Ireland" that are more northerly than any parts of Northern Ireland.

[Grandad7184]

NNR UK is our shipper 4 days to cork from UK can PM you some contacts if required.

[grumbas]

Grandad7184 said:

NNR UK is our shipper 4 days to cork from UK can PM you some contacts if required.

Someone recommended NNR to me on here before, I've since used them for quite a few air freight shipments to South Africa and been very pleased with the service.

[Grandad7184]

grumbas said:

Someone recommended NNR to me on here before, I've since used them for quite a few air freight shipments to South Africa and been very pleased with the service.

We used them for our America shipments for about 4 years and have just given them our European contract. 1 weekly from Germany to uk what is 3 pallets then we have 12 pallets which go from Spain to Germany weekly. Plus about another 50 pallets from Germany to other European and world wide locations never had any problems and always informed by there office on both Air freight and road freight

[slow_poke]

Eric Mc said:

Galway is southwest.

Galway, southwest?

[sanguinary]

Thanks for the help above, I've got some contacts to go with for the time being.

Justin Cyder said:

Hi Sanguinary. I can help you with that, it's what I do for a living. I've dropped you a pm that may point you in the right direction.

If you find yourself around Newcastle at some point, drop me a line - I owe you at least a pint for your time!

[Jayfish]

Justin Cyder said:

Hi Sanguinary. I can help you with that, it's what I do for a living. I've dropped you a pm that may point you in the right direction.

Justin, do you work with REDS and is import from portugal in your area of expertise?

Edited by Jayfish on Tuesday 7th October 15:39

[surveyor]

Eric Mc said:

Dublin is not in southern Ireland. It's actually eastern Ireland. Galway is southwest.

You need to check your geography before you correct others....

[Eric Mc]

They are only being kind to the Brits. We recognise that they don't teach geography very well in many English schools and as a result the English are easily confused.

The Scots and the Welsh are usually more geographically aware.

[Eric Mc]

surveyor said:

Eric Mc said:

Dublin is not in southern Ireland. It's actually eastern Ireland. Galway is southwest.

You need to check your geography before you correct others....

Okay, westish/southish.

The point I was making is that there is no political entity called "Southern Ireland".

And since when did anybody refer to the Republic of Ireland as "The Fee State". Some old timers who are long dead, especially those from Northern Ireland, used to use the term into the 60s and 70s. But I've not heard anybody use that expression since the 1980s.
The original Fee State ceased to be in the 1930s.

[Justin Cyder]

Jayfish said:

Justin, do you work with REDS and is import from portugal in your area of expertise?

Edited by Jayfish on Tuesday 7th October 15:39

No, sorry. I'm 99% UK primary distribution by preference. It just so happens that one of my larger clients has opened up a sales channel to Eire & so we've followed them in, which means I was in a position to offer some help to Sanguinary.

[Justin Cyder]

sanguinary said:

If you find yourself around Newcastle at some point, drop me a line - I owe you at least a pint for your time!

Only if The Trent House & Egypt cottage are still going! Happy student memories.

[sanguinary]

Trent House is still there. Never been though!


https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.9771637,-1.61852...

Edited by sanguinary on Tuesday 7th October 16:47

[JuniorD]

sanguinary said:

Apologies, maybe I should have said Eire.

Dont apologise, only the hyper anally retentive would have any issue with the meaning of the term southern Ireland, which is fully synonymous with Republic of Ireland.

As for "Eire", I can probably count on one hand the nunber times I've heard an irish person use this term.

[Eric Mc]

JuniorD said:

sanguinary said:

Apologies, maybe I should have said Eire.

Dont apologise, only the hyper anally retentive would have any issue with the meaning of the term southern Ireland, which is fully synonymous with Republic of Ireland.

As for "Eire", I can probably count on one hand the nunber times I've heard an irish person use this term.

It's on all the stamps

So it's official - somewhere.

[Justin Cyder]

I say Eire in business specifically to distinguish it from Northern Ireland. But I work in distribution, so it pays to be understood. Gets expensive when lorries turn up in the wrong country/province/oppressed land (delete according to your personal political peccadilloes)

And yes, we have done that in the past. Red faces ensued.