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and to expensive to road tax that’s why nobody wants them

🤌 Who will give you this information? In this weather everyone keeps his umbrella over his head…

Quite simple use the laws of pallet truck physics
They can carry mass weights but can't roll over a plastic cable tie on the floor
Simply put a cable tie on the floor at the front and back of each wheel
It's going nowhere

Check your home insurance, sometimes they add employment law cover, or ACAS,

Ye that’s why gave up.. got 3 E6 dafs for sale if anyone interested
2 x 66 plates 510
1 x 69 plate 530

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It's a con don't waste your money simples

Although Factoring is a way of funding your invoices there are some variances in the service.

1) Full Factoring - You get paid up front against your invoices and the lender completes the credit control as the lender.
2) Shadow Factoring- same a above but the lender does the credit control control in your business name so looks like an extension of your business.
3) CHOCS Facility - stands for Client Handles Own Credit Control. The lender provides funding only and you as a business complete the credit control.

After this you can look at Full Confidential Facilities which is a relationship between you and the lender only.

Factoring services can be bespoke to your business and you can go from Pay As You Go to Financing every invoice.

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Whitman Gowdridge Insurance Broker, Leicester. Ask for Matthew. I've used them for years Craig. Good luck with your new venture.

Hi Guy's, I need to apply for O License again after been away for more than 18 years since I surrender my last O/L, I can afford up to 70 Trucks and Trailers but I was advised not to apply more than 5 first time because they will reject my application if I apply more than 5 trucks and trailers any advise on this please.

Thanks alot.

If, besides having the financial standing for 70/70, as long as you have the infrastructure of parking space and staff etc, then absolutely no reason not to apply for 70. Obv you’d have support for that Number.
Whoever gave you that 5 veh advice is best left out of further business decisions. There is nothing anywhere that remotely suggests a limit to how many you have at the start.
DM if you wanted to review your business plan.

Company called PT hire in Swadlincote, who is local knows where this is.

Now, Cx will just take your money..

You do realize that if you're on good price someone else is paying to subsidies it so why put your price here

The competition will be high in any vehicle size, even airplanes. 😂
Thing is what everyone does, everyone is co-loading in order to take something home
They give lower quotes to 2-3 jobs and they have their bigger van running for about 3£ a mile.

UK fuels mate

Funny how only Easter European don’t get paid in time over here.. just mi remarks on that 😅
Had only a try with them which eventually got cancel.. but got paid even for that..

Of course you can go down the factoring route (less stress but someone else taking your hard earned cash) or employ someone to spend every working hour chasing your debtors.

The job and finding paying work was never the issue for me. Getting the bastards to pay was without doubt the most stressful part. So I took the decision to wrap it up and walk away.

WE RUIN IT FOR OURSELVES BY OURSELVES.
FIRST THE TAXI INDUSTRY AND NOW LOGISTICS. I REMEMBER WORKING £1 PER PARCEL FOR HERMES 7,8 YEARS BACK NOW I KNOW PEOPLE DOING 250 PARCELS FOR £100. LABOUR CLASS DON'T HAVE PROGRESSIVE MINDSET. SORRY TO SAY. KNOW YOUR VALUE GUYS.

Its a common think. For a first couple of weeks they offering You a good prices, then they change them so You pay same or a bigger prices than at pump

For a basic hire and reward without git it’s around 1k-1200 a year on a standard luton van, 🤦‍♂️

C X accounts are not transferable..

A 5tonner iveco or similar however to run one legally ya need cpc & tachograph etc plus a transport manager, shippers trying it in hoping one the euro lads in there flip flops price it at £1.50 a mile when in reality it's a 7.5tonner job an should be priced accordingly

I wonder what he will have from it 🤔

8k minimum

I've had a lot of success with it. Earned my subscription fee back in the first 3 weeks. It's a tough old grind though.

No matter whether you’re early or late you can guarantee you’ll be sat outside for 2 hours waiting to be let in and then the 3 hours it took to tip and check the 3 pallets I had for them 😂

And amazingly most times the pallet suddenly can stay with the goods.

When your self employment stopped you should have told HMRC. If you have not been paid the Vat from Amazon yet you were VAT Registered then by law they must pay you the VAT. If you are still Vat Registered you must de-register if no longer trading as self employed and the VAT number is not needed. Until you are de-registered you must submit zero VAT Returns. I suspect you didn't do this so they have sent you an estimation. You must now speak with HMRC and they will sort it out

Take the money

Will van have a trailer? If so, the O licence will need to be for HGV (over 3.5t) rather than the lightweight licence 2.5-3.5t
As OP has said they are currently in the military, the TM exemption would not be an option, normal TM CPC required.
Assume from time starting to study, take exam, get result, then apply for o licence likely to be 6 months or so
There is a shorter route with an ETM
OP needs toUnderstand their business better to make sure they don’t make expensive mistakes

Tbf, I don't pay rent and when I start up again I'll own my van outright so I'm basically working to pay fuel and insurances. Means I can under cut everyone basically in saying that I never did/would take a back load, the prices are almost insulting and I saw it as people cheeping out, I deal with people who pay for the work done and all expenses involved, as stated prior don't encourage people blagging backloads to spoil the market

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I drive up Detling hill often and you always see people flashing and being rude to the slow lorries, I think if you are not in the industry then you don't understand and is more about education than just labelling them idiots - I feel the same when I see car drivers up the inside of artics on a roundabout :roll:

Its difficult for people who know what they are doing surely you know this

I echo the advice Paulbro has given. On top of purchasing or renting a van you’ll need all insurances , you’ll need fuel money for 3 months , and your own wages before you receive a penny from the first job you’ve managed to get … and then bank on never actually making that money back over the lifetime you are a courier.
Multidrop the likes of DPD , Evri , yodel etc is hard , upwards of 160 drops a day ( ignore the adverts saying oh you’ll be done by 4pm etc .. how many times have you seen a DPD driver delivering on your street after 7pm or on Saturdays/Sundays ?? )
If you really want to be a courier , I’d advise going PAYE and being an employed driver first and for most. A reputable transport company , will teach you the things the ‘YouTubers ‘ can’t … such as driving hours ( yes they can apply to van driving ) , identifying hazardous goods which you are not allowed to carry without relevant training ( a good transport company may put you through a course for it )
They will also...

What’s a back load rate! a mile is a mile, basically you have the same costs, you will not make money running a MWB at 65p per mile,

The amount of companies going to the wall in Immingham is frightening

That’s more the business model not working.

Pmd u

Thanks guys for some info...

Thanks for the advice guys

Thanks again for the advice guys