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XXX! transport has made an offer of £290 on your booking 'H05-0004'. Pickup From S13 9XD (Sheffield). Deliver To NE11 9YA (Gateshead). 129 miles Offer Vehicle Type Small Van Offer Pickup Time 05/08/2014 at 13:00

XYZ! has made an offer of £350 on your booking 'H05-0005'. Pickup From S13 9XD (Sheffield). Deliver To PR6 7JY (Clayton-le-Woods). 77 miles Offer Vehicle Type Small Van Offer Pickup Time 05/08/2014 at 00:00

Thats pricey for them what they running a jumbo jet

My Niece lives about ten miles from Sheffield, think I willl go and live there, I could of done them for half that wink.

Whoever has quoted these prices just forget it

Unbelievable

Is this real!

3D Courier Services said:

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Email alerts from Mtvan today

XXX! transport has made an offer of £290 on your booking 'H05-0004'. Pickup From S13 9XD (Sheffield). Deliver To NE11 9YA (Gateshead). 129 miles Offer Vehicle Type Small Van Offer Pickup Time 05/08/2014 at 13:00

XYZ! has made an offer of £350 on your booking 'H05-0005'. Pickup From S13 9XD (Sheffield). Deliver To PR6 7JY (Clayton-le-Woods). 77 miles Offer Vehicle Type Small Van Offer Pickup Time 05/08/2014 at 00:00

And people wonder why jobs don't get posted on here. With that kind of offer, i seriously think someone is just taking the P**S. I mean how much do these people actually think that we charge our customers

They are real emails fro mtvan. The members names have been disguised so as not to offend.

These people should be on the stage. A right pair of commedians.

Ooh can I have those prices Steve and Darren lol :-)

My prices are my price but hell nowhere near that pmsl

Do they do a season in Blackpool too

Now you really would have to pay me to go to Blackpool lol, hate the place

And i thought i was pricey lol... Time to bump up the prices

Andy McTighe said:

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Now you really would have to pay me to go to Blackpool lol, hate the place

Im with you on that. I lived there for years

If you want me to write a song I will do?

Just ignore the silly quotes the way drivers have to filter out the silly payers, thats all can be done i suppose

Deffo silly quotes had one myself the other day nearly £200 for mwb to do 67 miles and that was on the big yellow but on the other hand ive priced jobs on both sites and been told we havn't even charged the customer that so both sides need to sort out

Schofields couriers said:

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Deffo silly quotes had one myself the other day nearly £200 for mwb to do 67 miles and that was on the big yellow but on the other hand ive priced jobs on both sites and been told we havn't even charged the customer that so both sides need to sort out

And you believed it? pmsl

All this moaning about prices is riddiculous! There is no such thing as a 'going rate' all a driver should be concerned about is charging enough to cover costs and what they want as a profit. What the vendor is making or charging the customer is absolutely nothing to do with anyone else other than the customer and vendor! We often quote high for jobs we are not bothered about getting, sometimes the customer gives the go ahead, sometimes not, but we will be getting a good price for a job we really did not want.
It is no use speculating that the customer is being charged too much, or too little, as the overall picture is only known to the relevant two parties. We often get customers asking specifically for a motorcycle, yet they stall when given a price! What they do not understand is that a motorcycle costs far more to maintain and run than a van! Our price is what it is, they pay for a good professional service, and that is why we have kept the same customers for nearly 25 years! If a customer wants the cheapest, then good luck to them! they will more than likely fall foul, with their goods being co-loaded with the consequence of their items being delivered late or not as required.

Get over, this 'going rate' nonsense, and only work for the price you 'need', forget about clutching at straws in the hope of getting a backload to subsidise a low quote in the first place. If your quote is not accepted, just move on.

Placed job on here got price lets say high, when asked I was told good vans cost more. Dont we run good vans.

I think this job is getting silly or maybe my schizophrenia is kicking in again. I am going through the 'should I carry on or jack' stage again. More jobs going to cars or the increase in backload prices. I admire you guys that have been going for years.

This is not a moan as its not really my style, I just wonder where we are heading.

Home shopping from the internet means we are heading for the need for more and more home deliveries , be it by the Yodels DPD's or myHermes calibre of multi dropping, or the "retail sameday" offered by you know who. And like I or not that means a lot of part-timers working evenings in their cars for extra pin money.

Some will see that as an opportunity, some a hindrance to real courier work.

Personally that side of the business is one that doesn't interest me, it just confuses everyone and gets in the way of the more quality work most of us are looking for. I'm not saying there isn't a place for it, for from it, there is a place for that kind of work but I just don't happen to think that it's here.

You may think I'm silly disregarding it, particularly as it's expanding at a rate of knots, but it's a logistical nightmare and i've done that, been there and discarded the t-shirt many moons ago.

I'd much rather deal with customers who know what they're doing, and with couriers who know what they're doing.

Here here to that

Aterall, there's turnover, and there's profit.

We can all be busy fools.

Whilst running around like a blue arsed fly earning next to nothing, you're missing the proper stuff

Speed Couriers Nationwide Ltd said:

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Aterall, there's turnover, and there's profit.

We can all be busy fools.

Whilst running around like a blue arsed fly earning next to nothing, you're missing the proper stuff

Too many though are not smart enough to realise this

Depends if you're in this for the long haul or not. Cheap means lowering your standards, and expectations. You'll lose customers and more importantly you'll lose respect

I got one of those free PRO memberships from Anyvan. I did a search this morning for small van jobs and it showed two:-

One was from you-know-who for an antique desk, weight 81.8kg, no other dimensions.

The other was for a double bed and mattress and four or five boxes!

Some companies are a bit poor at the job.

Dennis said:

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Schofields couriers said:

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Deffo silly quotes had one myself the other day nearly £200 for mwb to do 67 miles and that was on the big yellow but on the other hand ive priced jobs on both sites and been told we havn't even charged the customer that so both sides need to sort out

And you believed it? pmsl

Yes i believed it some have the price on websites 70p for a small van to a end user even had one quoting one of my customers very close to that

PHAX said:

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I think this job is getting silly or maybe my schizophrenia is kicking in again. I am going through the 'should I carry on or jack' stage again. More jobs going to cars or the increase in backload prices. I admire you guys that have been going for years.

This is not a moan as its not really my style, I just wonder where we are heading.

You may be schizophrenic PHAX but at least you are good people.

Motorcycle £0.50 Small Van £0.45 Transit Van £0.55 L W B Sprinter £0.60 7.5 Tonne £0.95 17 Tonne £1.10 Heres some more mad sameday rates for end user not trade

Schofields couriers said:

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Motorcycle £0.50 Small Van £0.45 Transit Van £0.55 L W B Sprinter £0.60 7.5 Tonne £0.95 17 Tonne £1.10 Heres some more mad sameday rates for end user not trade

That must be someone who is quoting round trip and even then it is on the low side!

No its only loaded miles can just about make my sprinter break even on running cost at 60p so where the profit comes from god only knows

Who ever is offering those prices will soon be out of business unless its a BBFF and even then they will find it hard to cover the work on the basis of the prices, unless its lifestyle couriers doing it..

A pretty sh*telifestyle by the sound of it

I cant for the life of me figure out how they can make it pay but always see there vans up and down the motorway network