Socketset:
Thought euro van work was pretty much the preserve of the flip blokes in their Renaults and Peugeots with the standard tilt bodies and the pods.
There must be thousands of them about now.
Sometimes you see them in convoy ffs.
Yes, I’ve seen this and wonder what they are doing. Is it just standard euro van work or some modern version of the mobile phone VAT reclaim scam? There are just so many of them that I find it hard to understand why somebody hasn’t thought about consolidating the loads.
Socketset:
Thought euro van work was pretty much the preserve of the flip blokes in their Renaults and Peugeots with the standard tilt bodies and the pods.
There must be thousands of them about now.
Sometimes you see them in convoy ffs.
Yes, I’ve seen this and wonder what they are doing. Is it just standard euro van work or some modern version of the mobile phone VAT reclaim scam? There are just so many of them that I find it hard to understand why somebody hasn’t thought about consolidating the loads.
Thought a lot of European van work was urgent stuff that is needed too quickly for it to be put on groupage, such as line-stopper parts for car manufacturers and the like? But that might be a relatively small part of this area of the transport industry, I don’t know.
alix776:
Rates still haven’t changed small vans as a sunny are on 60-70ppm big stuff is 90-110 if your lucky enough to get it. All is paid one way. I have heard of guys doing small van work with sprinters for 35ppm wtf .
3 years ago I was getting 80 pplm for a small van on hotshot work from NE Scotland, could never find a return load which buggered the job up. So parked the van up and went back to the sea but still have a transit just in case …
I used to get 90ppm all day for a lwb. Never bank on a return I had a glenrothes in a my small van last week 60ppm one way came on at 2100 collected 2230 delivered at 0300. Had no truck work most of last week so it came in handy didn’t get a return so just sauntered home
The Euro stuff I was doing in the van 2 years ago was line stopping stuff. All automotive last minute rush jobs. They are the killer jobs you need to avoid, especially if that’s all the work involves. Occasionally you’d get the odd job where there’d be a decent trip to Sweden twice a week. Yes, you’d need to get there ASAP. But 9/10 the gentle drive westward until a backload arrived was pleasant enough. We used to be told, head for Hamburg and park.Or head towards Venlo on the Dutch/ German border and park. That was the downtime and the rest times. Not ALL of it was balls out driving, but a lot of it was.
I quite enjoyed running my own vans. Yes there were some Godawful hours involved, mainly as BV states when delivering “line stoppers” for the automotive industry.
I sacked it in around 2007 when the economic downturn started kicking in and you ended up with a lot of 40 odd year old fellas with a wad of redundancy money and no real prospect of gainfull employment thinking “I know what, I’ll become a man with a van, that sounds easy”. Consequently the rates they quoted became ridiculous as they all figured “30 mpg, £5 per gallon, so if I charge £10 for 30 miles I’ve doubled my money” and priced accordingly. Err, no.
Socketset:
Thought euro van work was pretty much the preserve of the flip blokes in their Renaults and Peugeots with the standard tilt bodies and the pods.
There must be thousands of them about now.
Sometimes you see them in convoy ffs.
Yes, I’ve seen this and wonder what they are doing. Is it just standard euro van work or some modern version of the mobile phone VAT reclaim scam? There are just so many of them that I find it hard to understand why somebody hasn’t thought about consolidating the loads.
I’ve seen a lot do this at Thurrock services into an artic.
