Hello everyone,
I was wondering if there are any similar companies here in UK comparing to lkw-walter.com/en (based in Austria) ■■? Any ideas■■?
I hope to god there are no more companies like LKW Walters.
I had a truck in Antwerp earlier this year. Sent all details and insurances through, they messed me about and then said the next load would be 3 days later. Antwerp to Goole on the over night ferry from Hook to Immingham £350 ferry paid.
We shipped back empty and loaded in Reading to Manchester for £400.
GIVE THEM A VERY WIDE BERTH IF YOU WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS IN 12 MONTHS TIME!
hoty2008:
I hope to god there are no more companies like LKW Walters.I had a truck in Antwerp earlier this year. Sent all details and insurances through, they messed me about and then said the next load would be 3 days later. Antwerp to Goole on the over night ferry from Hook to Immingham £350 ferry paid.
We shipped back empty and loaded in Reading to Manchester for £400.
GIVE THEM A VERY WIDE BERTH IF YOU WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS IN 12 MONTHS TIME!
So, you have an empty truck in Antwerp without a return load & expect LKW Walter to load you ahead of their regular contractors & when they don’t you tell anyone reading your post to “GIVE THEM A WIDE BERTH”!!! Load Reading to Manchester for £400, less 'empty) ferry, £140? so £260■■ I’m not saying that the Walters rate was any good, in fact I’d say it’s rubbish.
I’d take a little of your own advice if I were you & suggest that IF YOU WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS IN 12 MONTHS TIME, have a source of return load before you send a truck out of the country, & don’t expect a company to ‘bail you out’ when you find yourself under prepared.
Ross.
syva:
Hello everyone,I was wondering if there are any similar companies here in UK comparing to lkw-walter.com/en (based in Austria) ■■? Any ideas■■?
I have found two from my previous post which are: returnloads.net and haulage exchange ( drivers need to find loads themselves) vs LKW-Walter ( LKW planners find loads for drivers).
syva:
Hello everyone,I was wondering if there are any similar companies here in UK comparing to lkw-walter.com/en (based in Austria) ■■? Any ideas■■?
Probably Stobarts come close, they seem to use the same model as in stack em high and sell themselves cheap enough to undercut everyone else…
bigr250:
hoty2008:
I hope to god there are no more companies like LKW Walters.I had a truck in Antwerp earlier this year. Sent all details and insurances through, they messed me about and then said the next load would be 3 days later. Antwerp to Goole on the over night ferry from Hook to Immingham £350 ferry paid.
We shipped back empty and loaded in Reading to Manchester for £400.
GIVE THEM A VERY WIDE BERTH IF YOU WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS IN 12 MONTHS TIME!
I’d take a little of your own advice if I were you & suggest that IF YOU WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS IN 12 MONTHS TIME, have a source of return load before you send a truck out of the country, & don’t expect a company to ‘bail you out’ when you find yourself under prepared.
Ross.
I read it that that the load was organised in advance, as in insurance had been sent out etc, but the load was so called ‘‘delayed’’ 
more likely load priority was given to a regular contractor or their own truck who got the job and syva’s truck had to wait for a later slot…
hoty2008:
I had a truck in Antwerp earlier this year. Sent all details and insurances through, they messed me about and then said the next load would be 3 days later. Antwerp to Goole on the over night ferry from Hook to Immingham £350 ferry paid.
It clearly says, “truck in Antwerp. Sent all details” if that’s the sequence, the truck was empty prior to details being sent.
Ross.
syva I think Im going to pre empt your next question, if you think you can run a business using returnloads.net and haulage exchange the answer is a big no. these are not transport companies but only sites where loads are posted for available trucks, generally people looking for loads home. they are only usefull to fill in the gaps when you have a quiet period or a trailer filler or to get you somewhere you need to be rather than run empty ( a hanging offence ). so if you are looking for work this is NOT the place to start.
bigr250:
It clearly says, “truck in Antwerp. Sent all details” if that’s the sequence, the truck was empty prior to details being sent.Ross.
I think the initial gripe was the truck was ready to load at a pre arranged time, which was then subsequently postponed…and he was going to have to wait another three days.
hoty2008:
I hope to god there are no more companies like LKW Walters.I had a truck in Antwerp earlier this year. Sent all details and insurances through, they messed me about and then said the next load would be 3 days later. Antwerp to Goole on the over night ferry from Hook to Immingham £350 ferry paid.
We shipped back empty and loaded in Reading to Manchester for £400.
GIVE THEM A VERY WIDE BERTH IF YOU WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS IN 12 MONTHS TIME!
I think people are getting a bit mixed up with who is posting what here, It was ‘hoty2008’ whose truck was m/t in Antwerp and ‘syva’ IIRC from previous post’s is an experienced traffic planner and is East European or speaks some EE languages and has come here from the USA and was previously looking for planning work for an International Transport Co; I’m sure they are neither a driver or operator at the moment.
Regards
Dave Penn;
syva:
Hello everyone,I was wondering if there are any similar companies here in UK comparing to lkw-walter.com/en (based in Austria) ■■? Any ideas■■?
There are a fair few but none of there size, backloads from Europe are monopolised by LKW but Brinor, Denholm etc usually pay a few quid more, it depends where in europe you are as to who I’d choose, LKW used to pay £1650 from Ancona area in Italy plus a sea freight, Denholms would pay £1900 with no sea freight.
I am however fairly out of touch with all this its been a number of years now since I needed a reload thankfully.
I’m sure in this global market approaching local freight forwarders near to where your looking would be beneficial.
I am do not understand your point. On every forum you go, there will be a mixture of different people - some of them with a lot of experience and some of them with not that much experience in the industry. I do not believe that if someone does not have much experience in the transport industry is not allowed to participate in forum discussions.
P.S. Just for the record, I recently started working as a transport planner for the haulier with around 150 trucks in total, on top of it, I passed multiple choice of my national and international cpc license and hopefully will receive positive result for the case study ( the result should be in next week).
Best regards,
syva 
davepenn54:
hoty2008:
I hope to god there are no more companies like LKW Walters.I had a truck in Antwerp earlier this year. Sent all details and insurances through, they messed me about and then said the next load would be 3 days later. Antwerp to Goole on the over night ferry from Hook to Immingham £350 ferry paid.
We shipped back empty and loaded in Reading to Manchester for £400.
GIVE THEM A VERY WIDE BERTH IF YOU WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS IN 12 MONTHS TIME!
I think people are getting a bit mixed up with who is posting what here, It was ‘hoty2008’ whose truck was m/t in Antwerp and ‘syva’ IIRC from previous post’s is an experienced traffic planner and is East European or speaks some EE languages and has come here from the USA and was previously looking for planning work for an International Transport Co; I’m sure they are neither a driver or operator at the moment.
Regards
Dave Penn;
@syva, was I almost correct in my post about your post’s on TNUK 
It was only from memory, I didn’t do any research or anything. I’m only interested out of curiousity 
to see how good my memory is still working. 
Regards
Dave Penn;
Truck was in Antwerp after being paid round trip to take an urgent load out there. I called LKW walters to say I had a truck empty and they said they had a load available, no pushing in etc. After sending details through (the following day was a bank holiday) they said it would be 3 days later.
How anybody can work for these people and stay in business is beyond me. I did one load for them before this incident 14 years ago on the 1st week I set up in business’ and realised I would go out of business if I carried on working for them. I now run 32 trucks and make a PROFIT.
I worked for a Lkw Walters’ subbie who was based in Munich and had six trucks on for them all the time. The work was always paid as around trip.[Austria-Uk-Uk-Austria]. They went head to head with companies like Willi Betz for all the multi-national company work [eg, Nestle]. The boss used to take Lkw management to the Oktoberfest so we got some good work. Then in May 2004, the rate dropped from 1 euro.49 per kilometre to 75 cents per kilometre and I was out of a job. The rate for one-way jobs was always poor.
C H Robinson is another company that does things similar to Lkw Walters.