nomiS36:
I’ve had the misfortune to get the S/E run this week so have seen hundreds of them. What is the business model for them? I ask because UK firms don’t run them really so they must have found a niche no?
It surely doesn’t pay to send a van that can only carry about 6 pallets all the way from Poland does it?[emoji848]
The business model is they can pay far lower wages than a Western European courier service; it’s unlikely that they are only delivering goods from their country of origin. Instead more likely they “tramp” round Europe picking up goods from whatever country they’re in.
As other have said much of the work will be for things like production line stoppers or parts required for emergency maintenance, the costs of getting 1 pallet or even a box of bits delivered by van, or in extreme circumstances by aircraft, is far outweighed by the cost of stopping a production line or having some piece of industrial machinery standing idle while waiting for parts.