There’s not many owner drivers would want to be in a warehouse all day Mark which is why they’re owner drivers.
£300 a day…!!!
you need nearer £400 a day minimum whether its local or not…
god help us…
Why would you need £400 per day LRM,to buy a brand new Scania,lots of lights all for a vehicle doing 60 mile a day traction.
MarkMac5:
If we were to forget the warehouse support and just look for haulage contract (Monday to Friday) - ie turn up at 4.30pm, hook up, drive 30 miles and unload - I assume it would be considerably less?? Previously we have transported a trailer as a one off between Newcastle and London for £330…M
Reading between the lines you are hoping to get someone to do it for £100 to £120 a day, you know an extra fill in job at the end of the day, dream on! You may get someone to do that on an adhoc basis ie when you have any easy day and finish early but the reality is most o/d’s are working maximum hours to pay the bills so couldn’t offer the service you require, you will have to bite the bullet and pay accordingly or put up with the sort of service your likely budget will attract.
why not price a job to include a shiny scania lol…
at least £150 a days wages, that would leave you £150, for fuel, tyres, insurance, repairs, phone, sundries, truck replacement etc…
whats the payment terms, 30, 60, days e.o.m, that has a cost attached to it…
crack on, perhaps he could put it on an internet auction site and the winning bid could be £300…
i know nothing about running trucks but i know 3 months in you may well be cap in hand looking for a rate increase…
My advise would be to speak to one or two hauliers from around the Oldham/Shaw area (of which there are quite a few) and ask there advise and see if any are interested in doing the work for you.It could be a get me home job for someone at the end of a day.
We have loads of wagons up that way, many run back empty too, a trailer change and delivery wouldn’t be an issue for us, couldn’t tell you the rate though but doubt it would be a lot.
LRM:
£300 a day…!!!you need nearer £400 a day minimum whether its local or not…
god help us…
I agree. I cost my standing costs at £120 a day, I’d cost a driver at £120 a day Including employer’s NI, then there’s £40 of diesel a day, sometimes £80, before anyone had mentioned a price I was thinking £350 a day as a minimum.
Thanks everyone for the insight. Looks a if I will be staffing the warehouse independent of the haulage and will approach a company in Shaw to manage the daily drop offs (hopefully on a return leg).
All the best - Mark
A few names here for you to look at if your interested.
Singleton Transport
Graham Poole
J Barrett
D P Firth
LTS Ltd
Cowlings Transport
Kelvin Lords
All within about 5 miles of Shaw.
Thank you
How many cages or size of load and weight ?
Perhaps more info will bring better answers, as I know a small company local with a couple of puddlejumpers with trailers who may be interested.
Yeah I think you’d be best off doing it that way Mark, a local firm might do it for £150-200.
Mark a local might do the job say for £150 a day . But you will still had to pay a wage for the Bradford job . And there’s the worry if the vehicle will be on time every day to load and get to Shaw and does the trailer need to be left at Bradford for loading . Overall theses things have to be tacken into account
Neil
you have a pm
Lee may don’t hold your breath I sent him a PM . And I’m still waiting for one back
Day rate (mine): £350 + Fuel + profit.
Hth.
Thanks for the replies and PM’s. I will get back to you tomorrow when back in the office… Just driving up the country.
To be fair, a company standing a truck all day is not such a rarity. DHL out of East Midlands Airport do just that. A lorry leaves the hub and drives to a DHL Station, the driver unloads and goes to bed, then they drive back to the hub at night with return freight, unload and go home. That is basically it, some of the trucks do less than 80 miles per day. When I was on it, Exeter & Southampton were the furthest runs. Stoke, Cambridge and Sheffield were the closest but the driver still stayed out.
I am not certain if it is still the same but it certainly was the case.