Eddie Stobart.
Discussion
Looking grim
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49445495
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49445495
Edited by Tannedbaldhead on Friday 23 August 09:32
I have no sympathy.
I was told, don't know how true it is, that each one of their trucks makes them less than £50 a day.
The haulage / logistics industry has been struggling for 2-3 years and driving prices down and down is only going to result in one thing.
For some reason so many of the big firms just don't see the problem with this. Hopefully this will be a wake up call.
I was told, don't know how true it is, that each one of their trucks makes them less than £50 a day.
The haulage / logistics industry has been struggling for 2-3 years and driving prices down and down is only going to result in one thing.
For some reason so many of the big firms just don't see the problem with this. Hopefully this will be a wake up call.
227bhp said:
anonymous said:
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Lovely anecdote I'm sure, but why did he say that?I can imagine there are a good many operational risks to that route, plus there may also be tacit agreements in place with hauliers.
They will be "banned" because the average road speed over the course of x100s of runs will be higher on the other M route. The fuel burn will be higher. The accident rate over that route will also probably be higher. Once everything is factored in its faster, safer and cheaper to take the longer route.
Loads have to get to their destination at exact times and whilst you may have had a good run they have probably been burned too many times on the rural route. The last thing they want is a driver running out of hours in the middle of nowhere.
Loads have to get to their destination at exact times and whilst you may have had a good run they have probably been burned too many times on the rural route. The last thing they want is a driver running out of hours in the middle of nowhere.
O/T, the Cat & Fiddle up from Macc used to be a great road before the average speed cameras and fad for wearing lyrca and pretending you are in the Tour de France.
I can remember hooning toward a hairpin in my first TVR Griffith (I'd be about 25) and, exiting the corner in the opposite direction, at full steam, was another TVR, a 400SE IIRC. Happy days.
I can remember hooning toward a hairpin in my first TVR Griffith (I'd be about 25) and, exiting the corner in the opposite direction, at full steam, was another TVR, a 400SE IIRC. Happy days.
In my early days, as the lowest form of haulage life I.e. a traffic clerk, the biggest sinking feeling always came from agency drivers. Lots of very good ones to be clear but also plenty who could not give a fig. We always looked at them as a reassuringly expensive way to get your trucks & trailers smashed up.
banjowilly said:
In my early days, as the lowest form of haulage life I.e. a traffic clerk, the biggest sinking feeling always came from agency drivers. Lots of very good ones to be clear but also plenty who could not give a fig. We always looked at them as a reassuringly expensive way to get your trucks & trailers smashed up.
Or loose freight/get lost/mysteriously run out of hours.
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