Until you want something transported and see the rates some companys charge
I had a table and 8 chairs to move 13 mile, quotes ranged from £236 to £78
I now have a car to move 18 mile, got 4 quotes between £115 and £165
All these are from Shipley
Does anybody find these reasonable?
205:
Until you want something transported and see the rates some companys charge
I had a table and 8 chairs to move 13 mile, quotes ranged from £236 to £78
I now have a car to move 18 mile, got 4 quotes between £115 and £165
All these are from Shipley
Does anybody find these reasonable?
Depends if the table is a 2 man job ,
Why don’t you work backwards do some figures on running vehicles and employees 
Btw what do you get paid per day ?
There is not much profit there. The furniture job requires a van and two men for about three hours. Does the table have to be taken apart , are there any stairs involved. The car move . Is the car legal to drive or do you need a trailer? There is a fair bit of expensive tackle involved in both jobs.
That’s partly why wages have stagnated - a client wanting things done ok the cheap.
24 pallets from Ipswich to Birmingham 420£
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DSMRookie:
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There’s a screenshot doing the rounds of a load from East Anglia to Rungis for €600, -30% for ferry
To get a car moved your best ringing the lads near you that do scrap cars. I used one to move a car of mine, similar mileage as you want cost me £40 for cash on the back of his transit
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DSMRookie:
24 pallets from Ipswich to Birmingham 420£Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
There’s a screenshot doing the rounds of a load from East Anglia to Rungis for €600, -30% for ferry
Stop on the A11/14/12 for diesel at midnight out of some one else’s tank , so no fuel costs
blue estate:
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DSMRookie:
24 pallets from Ipswich to Birmingham 420£Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
There’s a screenshot doing the rounds of a load from East Anglia to Rungis for €600, -30% for ferry
Stop on the A11/14/12 for diesel at midnight out of some one else’s tank , so no fuel costs
Steal their number plates so no road tax or insurance either 
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Way back when…
I was on nights for Eddie out of Wakefield delivering Coca-Cola. You’d get given a delivery note at the exit gate with the product codes and amounts for verification. The amount Eddie was charging was blocked out, most of the time.
I did an Enfield load and the price was accidentally printed on the sheet. £106 was what Eddie was charging for Wakey to north London.
Go figure.
One employer used to leave the rate for the job on my paperwork but sometimes crossed it out but you could still read it if held it up to the sunlight.
They were paid a lot for waste and recycling either ADR or non ADR and paid their subbies ok too with their rates written up in the traffic office .
yourhavingalarf:
Way back when…I was on nights for Eddie out of Wakefield delivering Coca-Cola. You’d get given a delivery note at the exit gate with the product codes and amounts for verification. The amount Eddie was charging was blocked out, most of the time.
I did an Enfield load and the price was accidentally printed on the sheet. £106 was what Eddie was charging for Wakey to north London.
Go figure.
When was this?10 years ago?
DSMRookie:
When was this?10 years ago?
I was driving…
A 420 Scania with 3 pedals for them so, I reckon 20+ years now.
205:
Does anybody find these reasonable?
Sounds alright. Considering they are one off jobs not contracts for large loads and not only require the sriver / vehicle to drive to the destination, but also back plus unloading time.
There are driver wages, fuel, insurance, time taken, invoicing / accounts dept, VAT, various taxes on money etc. Plus actually making a profit.
Punchy Dan:
205:
Until you want something transported and see the rates some companys charge
I had a table and 8 chairs to move 13 mile, quotes ranged from £236 to £78
I now have a car to move 18 mile, got 4 quotes between £115 and £165
All these are from Shipley
Does anybody find these reasonable?Depends if the table is a 2 man job ,
Why don’t you work backwards do some figures on running vehicles and employees
Btw what do you get paid per day ?
Man with van was all i needed, it went from one lockup to another lockup and i would have been there to open them up and help load and unload
A 2 hour job at most i thought and a hire van was £46 for the day but they all close at 17:30 so no go
Below is cost table from 2018 and a van is costing 98p per/km including driver so 40km is about £40, add inflation over three years and its costing around £46 +£32 for the owners pocket
still on the high side but now it makes more sense to me
one detail i forgot to add was the table and chairs cost £10 so the cost of transport made them worthless as i only wanted the table for a bench and the chairs for firewood
alamcculloch:
There is not much profit there. The furniture job requires a van and two men for about three hours. Does the table have to be taken apart , are there any stairs involved. The car move . Is the car legal to drive or do you need a trailer? There is a fair bit of expensive tackle involved in both jobs.
About 1 in 10 of the single car transporters i see on the road look like expensive bits of kit, the rest look like their on there last journey to the scrapper
Its SORN, got 2 bad injectors and barely drivable
trevHCS:
205:
Does anybody find these reasonable?Sounds alright. Considering they are one off jobs not contracts for large loads and not only require the sriver / vehicle to drive to the destination, but also back plus unloading time.
There are driver wages, fuel, insurance, time taken, invoicing / accounts dept, VAT, various taxes on money etc. Plus actually making a profit.
yes, it not the robbery i first thought it was but for a £10 table, it just to much
yourhavingalarf:
Way back when…I was on nights for Eddie out of Wakefield delivering Coca-Cola. You’d get given a delivery note at the exit gate with the product codes and amounts for verification. The amount Eddie was charging was blocked out, most of the time.
I did an Enfield load and the price was accidentally printed on the sheet. £106 was what Eddie was charging for Wakey to north London.
Go figure.
I saw those rates years ago too and was told it was the cost of the job before fuel, not what they were getting paid
Night-and-day:
To get a car moved your best ringing the lads near you that do scrap cars. I used one to move a car of mine, similar mileage as you want cost me £40 for cash on the back of his transit
i know your right, it was just easier to click a few buttons and post it on shipley and hope one of them would see it