Shouldn’t imagine there will be too many people out of work. All those parcels and contracts have to be serviced by somebody. One of the other parcel companies will just pick up the work and take on more staff accordingly.
They used to use double deck box vans when they ran their hub out of Wednesbury. They inherited a load of double deck curtains when they took over Target Express. The Coventry hub (Target) was geared around these, so looks like they adopted them for all their trunking when they moved to Cov.
I trunked for target for a few years and the curtain deckers were very stable even with a bit of weight up top. The bottom deck took pallets and as the well on the bottom was in line with the axles, the centre of gravity was quite low and you could throw them around a bit.
Saw a group on Facebook government should nationalise city link or something similar.
Realisticly looking at the figures they were flogging a dead horse for years. Was the same as when there was calls to the then government to save rover. It was a dead duck producing cars no one wanted
Nationalise nothing ta very much. If City Link isn’t a viable business then let it go to the wall. Bad enough we have to bail banks out. I’m sure Royal Mail, DPD, UPS and all the other parcel firms will take on the work for them.
John Lewis has switched to dpd I’m informed
I know of one guy who’s owed 17k and has had to lay off 6 guys don’t know how the directors can sleep at night knowing the amount of peoples lives they’ve ruined
John Lewis also use Yodel
Truckbling:
Shouldn’t imagine there will be too many people out of work. All those parcels and contracts have to be serviced by somebody. One of the other parcel companies will just pick up the work and take on more staff accordingly.
more tham likley this willhappen
Royal Mail deliver other companies mail, what we call DSA ( Downstream Access) at a loss, this has to be subsidised by people buying stamps to use Royal Mails service, as part of the agreement set up by Adam Crozier, RM also has to treat ALL DSA mail as first class, irrespective of the amount charged.
When Yodel admitted that they were 10 days behind on deliveries for Christmas, RM had to pick it up, an extra 25000 packets a day, on top of the normal Christmas frenzy RM have to deal with, we also had to pick up extra’s from DHL, UPS and TNT to ensure pre-Christmas delivery.
The point we ask is that if these companies fail to live up to the promises they make, why are they not penalised for it, RM gets fined by OFFCom for every late delivery of a guaranteed delivery, it is not a level playing field by any means when you only penalise one of the players.
If it were a level playing field and every courier had to abide by the rules set out by OFFCOM, and the USO, many more would go to the wall.
But as rm is\was a nationalized company that’s why off on gets involved untill rm has to stand on its own feet and actually starts to be run as a company there to make a profit then it off com should keep out of the business. It’s only rm that has to abide by the rules none of the others do. the extra packets were actually spread around all parcel networks no company would just switch to rm just because there there. Many major companies use multiple carriers untill the parcel carriers stop playing price wars and expecting drivers (remember the majority are sub contract driver to reduce the networks overheads this allies to rm too) stop expecting people to have a nee van and 1200-5ks worth of insurance before they can start and them expect them to wait 14-90 days to be paid before late/ nondelivery fines. For around £120 per day for upwards of 50 deliveries things wont change
alix776:
John Lewis has switched to dpd I’m informedI know of one guy who’s owed 17k and has had to lay off 6 guys don’t know how the directors can sleep at night knowing the amount of peoples lives they’ve ruined
John Lewis have been in talks with DPD for months, the decision to change carriers could well have been the final nail in their coffin. A good friend of mine in a business manager for JL and has had a couple of meetings at DPD’s hub a few months back
Latique:
Truckbling:
Shouldn’t imagine there will be too many people out of work. All those parcels and contracts have to be serviced by somebody. One of the other parcel companies will just pick up the work and take on more staff accordingly.more tham likley this willhappen
Royal Mail deliver other companies mail, what we call DSA ( Downstream Access) at a loss, this has to be subsidised by people buying stamps to use Royal Mails service, as part of the agreement set up by Adam Crozier, RM also has to treat ALL DSA mail as first class, irrespective of the amount charged.
When Yodel admitted that they were 10 days behind on deliveries for Christmas, RM had to pick it up, an extra 25000 packets a day, on top of the normal Christmas frenzy RM have to deal with, we also had to pick up extra’s from DHL, UPS and TNT to ensure pre-Christmas delivery.
The point we ask is that if these companies fail to live up to the promises they make, why are they not penalised for it, RM gets fined by OFFCom for every late delivery of a guaranteed delivery, it is not a level playing field by any means when you only penalise one of the players.
If it were a level playing field and every courier had to abide by the rules set out by OFFCOM, and the USO, many more would go to the wall.
It depends on the promises made by the carriers, our standard service has 5 days to be delivered so as long as a certain percentage is delivered in that time there is no penalty.
On the subject of Yodel, they were the only company who stopped collecting packages because they couldn’t cope. UPS, TNT, DPD etc all kept their commitments albeit with slight delays
There have been 4 city link trailers parked up in holyhead port the last couple of days, there will be a fair few parcels in them not getting delivered any time soon.
So… Who do these parcels actually belong to now?
Customers will get refunds, Suppliers will claim on the insurance…
Do the official receivers now get to auction them all off?
…That is assuming of course that the “Parked up combinations are not gaining some extra brudder-sized curtains cut into them before the opening of business tomorrow morning”… 
alix776:
John Lewis has switched to dpd I’m informedI know of one guy who’s owed 17k and has had to lay off 6 guys don’t know how the directors can sleep at night knowing the amount of peoples lives they’ve ruined
This is where it all falls down mate. The directors are paid to maximise profits etc. I have a family member who is paid to go in and sort large companies out. The first thing he does is take out a layer of management and getting rid of a 30 year employee is not an issue to him. It is his job to maximise the profits and if he reaches his targets he gets his bonus, if not then he’s out of a job. It is what he gets paid to do so why should he feel guilty about it.
You need to wear the other mans shoes for a while.
Truckbling:
You need to wear the other mans shoes for a while.
He probably can’t afford them.
“They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row”
Robert Zimmerman : Desolation Row.
Date?
IndigoJo:
Date?
Don’t know but this twitter account reckons on about 2 weeks ago. How true or if this is genuine■■?
Give Dave Smith a ring and ask him when he wrote this letter
Its also addressed to “suppliers” which I find odd, the only “key” supplier I would think citylink would have is who ever supplies their diesel.
Or do they refer to their O/D’s as suppliers?