madguy:
There is a company in Birmingham that advertise these jobs regularly, i looked into it a few months ago as i was interested, it is running between Coventry and Scotland in a Merc Sprinter.
You have to lease the van through them at around £250 per week and you are expected to do approx 5 nights minimum.
You collect the excess parcels out of Cov and run to Scotland through the night delivering around 5 am, then wait untill the evening and run back to Cov, you get a fuel card but have to pay for the fuel and you have to pay for maintenance of the van etc.
To make it pay you need to do 6 nights a week and you would earn approx £650 but as your self employed you also have to pay your own tax etc.
The contract is terrible for the driver, you have to give 2 months notice for any time off, then it is without pay but you still have to pay for the van lease etc, if you leave you have to give a full month notice and you still have to pay for the van lease untill they find a replacement driver.
As you would expect staff turnover is very high, not something that i personally was interested in in the end but some might like it.
Madguy
I think Bob (Truckyboy) got stitched up with something like this several years ago…
madguy:
There is a company in Birmingham that advertise these jobs regularly, i looked into it a few months ago as i was interested, it is running between Coventry and Scotland in a Merc Sprinter.
You have to lease the van through them at around £250 per week and you are expected to do approx 5 nights minimum.
You collect the excess parcels out of Cov and run to Scotland through the night delivering around 5 am, then wait untill the evening and run back to Cov, you get a fuel card but have to pay for the fuel and you have to pay for maintenance of the van etc.
To make it pay you need to do 6 nights a week and you would earn approx £650 but as your self employed you also have to pay your own tax etc.
The contract is terrible for the driver, you have to give 2 months notice for any time off, then it is without pay but you still have to pay for the van lease etc, if you leave you have to give a full month notice and you still have to pay for the van lease untill they find a replacement driver.
As you would expect staff turnover is very high, not something that i personally was interested in in the end but some might like it.
Madguy
Care to post the phone number of said company?
Just so i can check and save myself the cost of a call!
madguy:
There is a company in Birmingham that advertise these jobs regularly, i looked into it a few months ago as i was interested, it is running between Coventry and Scotland in a Merc Sprinter.
You have to lease the van through them at around £250 per week and you are expected to do approx 5 nights minimum.
You collect the excess parcels out of Cov and run to Scotland through the night delivering around 5 am, then wait untill the evening and run back to Cov, you get a fuel card but have to pay for the fuel and you have to pay for maintenance of the van etc.
To make it pay you need to do 6 nights a week and you would earn approx £650 but as your self employed you also have to pay your own tax etc.
The contract is terrible for the driver, you have to give 2 months notice for any time off, then it is without pay but you still have to pay for the van lease etc, if you leave you have to give a full month notice and you still have to pay for the van lease untill they find a replacement driver.
As you would expect staff turnover is very high, not something that i personally was interested in in the end but some might like it.
Madguy
Care to post the phone number of said company?
Just so i can check and save myself the cost of a call!
Sorry Dude, dont have the number know and honestly cant remember the name either, sorry
I see lots of them over here and by ‘Long distance’ they really mean ‘Long distance’
I see these couriers parked in the car parking area at truck stops all over in Ford E350 or Sprinters, they usually have a space behind the drivers area for a small mattress etc. I have spoken to a few who think nothing of collecting in Boston MA and deivering LA so a good hike with at least 3 nights in the bed. The advantage they have is no hours of service rules so they keep going till they have to stop.
Yeah, Exeter based, Small 6 driver outfit. Own all there own vans, usually replaced before warranties run out. UK and Euro work. It was a decent number. I messed up… sort of.
but arent van drivers governed by some kind of drivers regs … log book style ?