Courier Business Stuff

You can’t leave the payment terms blank when sending a confirmation through the courier ’Network’. Do the payment terms actually come up on the text message then?
 

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Apparently it wasn’t a lifetime membership; it was membership for at least 12 months. Oddly everyone that joined claims that they were told that it was a one-off payment for lifetime membership.

And the £120 is just for ‘basic’ membership, which doesn’t pay for text alerts and the display of your TM status etc; ‘premium’ membership costs more. Total cost is now slightly less per month than ‘Network’ o/d membership for (in my opinion) about 2% of the usefulness.
 

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You don’t half talk some bollocks.

The point is Tiny that you haven’t MADE any case and I for one really can’t see what it is that you’re getting at.

You seem to be complaining about an 80 mile job with 7 hours to deliver being put on as a backload. What’s the problem with that? If I had a job like that I’d probably put it on as a backload as well. If it’s not a backload FOR YOU or you can’t find anything to co-load with it then tough luck, move on to the next one. No-one’s ASKING, or expecting, YOU to do the job at backload rates.

My point in the other thread was that I don’t want our URGENT, IMPORTANT jobs delivering late. If we had 7 hours to deliver an 80 mile job I might very well spend some time finding someone going in the right direction and do a deal with them; that’s what this business is all about. The fact is that we don’t really get many jobs like that though; we’re not in that sort of market.
 

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You’re so cynical. 

They’ll no doubt realise at some stage (about now?) that they’ve shot themselves in both feet over this pricing thing.

We only bother with it because amongst the newbie postalandcourier dross on there we’ve come across some fantastic, reliable, suppliers; many of whom have only retained their MTVan membership because they thought they’d paid for it for life. If MTVan disappeared tomorrow, or were to continue with their policy of charging nearly as much as their competitors do for a far superior service, then I’m sure that all their members that are serious about their businesses would subscribe to the superior services available.

Where that would leave their own courier operation I don’t know.

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Here we go again.

An invoice sent by email is as valid as an invoice sent by any other means. If you publish your email address, or fax number for that matter, then people are perfectly entitled to use it to send documents to you. If you choose to ignore those documents then you’re liable for the consequences. I think it’s reasonable to assume that a company that lists a ‘Finance Email’ in its ‘Network’ Directory entry is willing to accept email invoices.

And if it’s so important that you receive the ORIGINAL POD rather than a copy then what happens when it goes missing in the post? Is a scanned copy suddenly acceptable or do you not bother charging your customer for the job?
 

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shaggy wrote:
yes, everybody’s left!

You know that’s not true Geoff. Tim told us that more people than ever were joining……..

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It’s a piss take isn’t it? The few companies that put jobs on there get it for free while the owner-drivers are expected to pay for the privilege of being on what’s little more than MTV**’s own subcontractor list.

Their free tracking system’s brilliant though, it almost makes up for the new charges, their high-handed attitude and the crappiness of the rest of their system. It’s about time our courier ‘Network’ introduced it as part of ‘Network’ Mobile – it’s far more useful than RJs and the Journey Sweeper.
 

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