Beavertail Recovery Truck?

[daemon]

A friend of mine is making noises about buying a cheapie (he says they can be bought from £2,000 upwards) Beavertail recovery truck and doing recoveries, pickups and deliveries for the motor trade, scrap car disposal service, etc, etc.

He seems quite enthused by the idea. He lives close to a couple of reasonable sized cities (one either side)

Should i be encouraging him or discouraging him?

[mph1977]

daemon said:

A friend of mine is making noises about buying a cheapie (he says they can be bought from £2,000 upwards) Beavertail recovery truck and doing recoveries, pickups and deliveries for the motor trade, scrap car disposal service, etc, etc.

He seems quite enthused by the idea. He lives close to a couple of reasonable sized cities (one either side)

Should i be encouraging him or discouraging him?

other than the fun of mixing tacho work with none tacho work ... the constant VOSA/ plod attention if it's not a C1 vehicle ... ( most cat B beavertails are easily overweight )

[t400ble]

Good luck with it

No money to be made. Too many people in the game.

[daemon]

Fair nuff. Not getting positive vibes here.

I'll let him know.

[roddo]

As above far too many doing it, the only way to make money in recovery is to do something specialised.

[mph1977]

roddo said:

As above far too many doing it, the only way to make money in recovery is to do something specialised.

or be big enough to get and keep a contract with one of the not got their own fleet road side assistantce co.s

[KrazyIvan]

At 2k I'd bet he'll be needing breakdown assistance more then he'll be giving it.

[roddo]

mph1977 said:

or be big enough to get and keep a contract with one of the not got their own fleet road side assistantce co.s

RAC/AA/green flag rates are very poor about £30 per job locally. We run a recovery business but only do specialised work.

[ReaderScars]

t400ble said:

Good luck with it

No money to be made. Too many people in the game.

There is money in it. I got a vehicle recovered through Anyvan; the driver told me he only put his details up there to get some exposure - I used him twice for two reasonably local jobs only a few days apart. At the second job for me he told me that, after changing some details on his Anyvan ad he got about 5 long distance UK jobs over 4 days from the north down to and around the south.

He was prepared to take a risk on a few low paying jobs in the hope it would get him some exposure and it worked.

But just to add, he had a good telephone manner, was nice to deal with, and could communicate properly via text and through the Anyvan site (which I'm not affiliated with - also used Shiply in the past).

But wouldn't a £2k truck probably need work...?