burnley-si:
i run 1 x r620 07 1 x 164 580 (the only way this is going is up in price) 1 x 60 reg daf 105 xf superspace cab (dont even say it), 2 x 2010 schmitz fridge trailers 2 x curtainside trailers 2005 / 2007, 1 sprinter curtainsider 2011/ 1 x ford custom 65 reg, 1 ford connect 61 reg, oh and 1 x 2011 range rover tdv8 sport overfinch oh and hopefully a 65 reg discovery commercial and thats as big as i in tend to get due to drivers
( im not trying to be big headed just we have worked bloody hard and given up a lot to get where we are today our 1st family holiday in 11yrs was last october)
trading 12 yrs so must be doing something right
my 164 has 2.5mil on the clock and sales through its test every year and is going up in price year on year
, my 620 has 1.3mil (and is holding its money) was tested in may all it needed was a brake light bulb, if i let them run below test standard i might have a bigger % at the end of the year, my trucks get per test then taken straight to the test station the day after 2 days off the road
if i had 22% at the end of a year id be rich lol
Well done you!!
It sounds a very attractive business model, but one that may be quite tricky to maintain long term, although if you’ve been doing it twelve years then it obviously works.
Anyway, a man who is big enough to fess up to running a DAF is not afraid to face up to his hopefully infrequent mistakes, and is to be respected.
I’m an owner driver myself, based in quite a remote part of Scotland, and will have been for forty years next year.
I have a unit and a couple of slightly specialised trailers. I’ve managed to keep my own customers all this time,
and not to sub for anyone apart from the very occasional times I need to get to somewhere out of area , to make a collection.
It’s worked ok for me over the piece. I’ll never be rich, but it’s given me a much better than average living over the years. Just shows you, it’s out there to be done. Quite surprising when you read some of the negative comments on here.