Courier load exchanges
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Yes but they really have not made an impression like Uber Courier Exchange has been going for 15 years thats the main one but it no big player by any stretch of the imagination.
You will get a handful of long established companies that have been on these sites for a long time they normally use it to cover work they are struggling to cover . Most of the owner drivers coveriing work on these sites are new start up and people that are struggling . In reality it is tough enough when your charging the customer a full rate . It is impossible to make it when your only getting 50 % of what the end user is paying .
I dont see any point in anybody being an owner driver servicing the industry now in the old days when I started an OD could profit £500 a week now they all they do is make minimum wage so whats the point its not a business when your making less than a shelf filler .
Return loads are OK but mostly haulage all the other trade exchange sites have literally almost given up I mean literally !
The reality is the demand is not there for business to business exchange sites
Most of us unlike hauliers just charge full rate on all loads now . I even do coming back because if you have a backload that you have done cheap it quite oftens runs into the next day destroying any opportunity for the vans to make a full rate that day .You still delivering that cheap load and sorting out somebody else drama and quite often when you do a job for someone else there is normally some sort of drama associated with the job
I have never brought the idea of reducing dead miles . The vehicle goes out to make a profit thats the aim . As long as it does that I dont care about the dead miles .The day the aim becomes reducing dead miles that will be the time to pack it in .
Make as much profit for as little drama and hassle as possible .
You will get a handful of long established companies that have been on these sites for a long time they normally use it to cover work they are struggling to cover . Most of the owner drivers coveriing work on these sites are new start up and people that are struggling . In reality it is tough enough when your charging the customer a full rate . It is impossible to make it when your only getting 50 % of what the end user is paying .
I dont see any point in anybody being an owner driver servicing the industry now in the old days when I started an OD could profit £500 a week now they all they do is make minimum wage so whats the point its not a business when your making less than a shelf filler .
Return loads are OK but mostly haulage all the other trade exchange sites have literally almost given up I mean literally !
The reality is the demand is not there for business to business exchange sites
Most of us unlike hauliers just charge full rate on all loads now . I even do coming back because if you have a backload that you have done cheap it quite oftens runs into the next day destroying any opportunity for the vans to make a full rate that day .You still delivering that cheap load and sorting out somebody else drama and quite often when you do a job for someone else there is normally some sort of drama associated with the job
I have never brought the idea of reducing dead miles . The vehicle goes out to make a profit thats the aim . As long as it does that I dont care about the dead miles .The day the aim becomes reducing dead miles that will be the time to pack it in .
Make as much profit for as little drama and hassle as possible .
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