Courier Business Stuff

Someone wrote:

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‘end users’ should not use trade sites

there’s no law against it,

If a website is open to all users, either trade or end-user, then that’s up to them and to their users. If on the other hand Cheapskate Ltd pass themselves off as a courier company in order to gain access to a ‘trade only’ website then it’s what used to be known as “obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception” and is a serious criminal offence covered by Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.

On the original question, end-user access to sites like CX would undoubtedly be good news for owner-drivers and small companies with limited time/money/effort to expend on advertising, sales and marketing.

It wouldn’t be very nice though for capitalist bastards like me, getting fat from other people’s hard work.

Posted under Courier and Freight Exchanges

So they booked you and cancelled when you were en route because they could do it cheaper?

Legally, unless you’ve agreed that cancellations will be charged for on a different basis, you can claim your identifiable costs plus your loss of profit on the job.

If they’d had a genuine cancellation an hour before the collection time I’d be tempted not to charge them anything but as they’ve taken the pi** and cost you money I’d charge them.
 

Posted under Courier and Freight Exchanges, Courier Basics

I’ve just rung a ‘Network’ member to do a job. He said “I’m a bit short of money so…”

Can anyone guess the end of the sentence?

Posted under Courier and Freight Exchanges, Courier Basics, Uncategorized

Try – ‘Directory’, ‘Goods To Move’ and ‘yell.com’

Now then, don’t take this as a criticism, I’m just wondering if you’re a bit confused about something. Yesterday you were stuck with a ‘Backload’ from (if I remember correctly) IP3 to IP4 with (I think) a 1 hour delivery deadline.

Now by posting that as a backload I would say that you’ve virtually guaranteed that most people would ignore it.

Could you share your thinking about posting it as a backload? Presumably you were hoping to save some money, but how much could you hope to save on a minimum charge job like that?

I’m not having a dig, I’m trying to help and being a little bit nosey.

Posted under Courier and Freight Exchanges, Courier Basics

“There are currently no fees to join Shiply and no listing, transaction or success fees for users. SP’s are currently not charged any sign up fees, monthly fees or bid placement fees. SP’s are charged a success fee based upon a tiered percentage of their accepted bid price. The tiered fee structure is as follows: 9.9% of the price from £0.01-£150.00, with a minimum fee of £6.00; 7.9% of the price from £150.01-£350.00; 5.9% of the price from £350.01-£1,000.00; and 3.9% of the price for any amount over £1000.01. Please see the table below for the tiered breakdown for this example:”

So the shipper pays Shitly a ‘deposit’ which is equal to the ‘success fee’ then the ‘service provider’ (you) has to collect your payment from the shipper.

So basically they’re offering to match you up with a load of ebay punters wanting sh*te moving for peanuts in return for a 10% payment.

Posted under Courier and Freight Exchanges

As it was posted as a backload maybe they thought that the mileage was totally irrelevant?

If you’ve dropped in Glasgow and you’re heading back to London what difference does it make to you whether the backload you’re bidding on is going to Carlisle or to Warrington?

I’d never heard of anyone charging a mileage rate for backloads until I joined our courier ‘Network’, it’s just bizarre and illogical.

Posted under Courier and Freight Exchanges, Courier Basics

Chris, are you saying that a ‘Network’ Member is asking for bids using a premium rate text number?

Posted under Courier and Freight Exchanges, Mobile Phones

lynyrd wrote:

Admin wrote:
I was having a yap with MTvan a couple weeks ago, and I believe they have something in the pipeline which will be free to their members…

I can get some more details if you want them…

if its stand alone software that cool

if its within mtvan no-one will use it

No-one in their right mind that is……

….some will.

From Tim’s keyboard:

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It’s similar to a lot of “courier software” packages, in that you can book a job, add a courier, add extras like waiting time etc, review the jobs before running pay and invoicing, print invoices, produce a list of invoices, and mark them paid.

The only difference is that it’s all on-line.

I think I’ll give that one a miss then.

Posted under Accounting Systems, Booking Software, Courier and Freight Exchanges