Light Haulage Company

[tomfraser]

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of using sites like returnloads, courierexchange etc.

I'm thinking about investing in a box van with a taillift but I'm looking for some advice on where to start with getting contracts.

Tia.

[MustangGT]

Have you read up on all the regulations surrounding transport? Make sure you will be able to comply with all of them before you start.

[dirky dirk]

road freight the margins will be low,

a tail lift like that will be wanted for shop work or for home deliveries and theyll be all handball
perhaps youd be better specializing in air freight or office furniture or something

[Simpo Two]

Helping poor people move house perhaps.

[DaveA8]

tomfraser said:

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of using sites like returnloads, courierexchange etc.

I'm thinking about investing in a box van with a taillift but I'm looking for some advice on where to start with getting contracts.

Tia.

I don't know how much aggravation you have now but I imagine you'll have a lot more. From price competition to not being paid to hanging around. On our estate there was a company who took sub contract work from Panther Logistics for Luton's with a tail lift, mostly Wayfair furniture, 2 person delivery. He was busy but talking to the guys there, it was a nightmare, people lying that they didn't try to deliver, people claiming all sorts of damage to property and this was a real optimized service.
I bid on a massage chair on ebay in Lancashire and the guy who sold it, found someone to get it down 2 flights of stairs, in a van and delivered in a week to london for £85. The chair weighs 120kg.

[VEX]

Agreed, only really works if you can get volume and return loads.

I used Shipply once and ended up a great company, they charge me £50 to ship 73kg boxes and as a two man team.

They seem to sit nicely between the DHL/Hemes/DPD guys who dont want anything over 20kg, and the big freigth / pallet guys.