I suppose the people who have really cracked it are the pallet system companies. Those DDs are rarely, if ever, empty and usually loaded to the roof.
Backloads can work where the traffic is simple and regular. The problems arise when trucks end up in the wrong places and aren’t available for their primary (and most profitable) work. Backloads are often priced at little more than the running cost of the truck and driver (sometimes less) and when something goes wrong, it becomes a loss. For example, part of a delivery might be refused, which leaves the haulier with the problem of what to do with the goods. The delivery might be delayed, leaving the haulier with no way to get their truck back.
Wasn’t this idea the basic philosophy behind the creation of British Road Services in 1948?
Santa:
I suppose the people who have really cracked it are the pallet system companies. Those DDs are rarely, if ever, empty and usually loaded to the roof.
That might be offset by the competition for the business with a number of national firms undercutting one another for the volume.
Santa:
I suppose the people who have really cracked it are the pallet system companies. Those DDs are rarely, if ever, empty and usually loaded to the roof.
Depends. The money in pallet and parcel work normally comes more from what you put into the system than what you deliver out of it. If your franchise covers an area with little manufacturing and industry but lots of home delivery and small businesses scattered over a wide area (mid Wales for example) it’s not so viable. Your trailer tends to go up empty and come back full.
I am minded to suggest that if DVSA really did want to swell their coffers, they could do worse than pull a few of those DD’s over; I run into a pallet hub sometimes with direct loads, and there ain’t many trailers which are strapped remotely near the official guidelines!
Santa:
I suppose the people who have really cracked it are the pallet system companies. Those DDs are rarely, if ever, empty and usually loaded to the roof.
Depends. The money in pallet and parcel work normally comes more from what you put into the system than what you deliver out of it. If your franchise covers an area with little manufacturing and industry but lots of home delivery and small businesses scattered over a wide area (mid Wales for example) it’s not so viable. Your trailer tends to go up empty and come back full.
I am minded to suggest that if DVSA really did want to swell their coffers, they could do worse than pull a few of those DD’s over; I run into a pallet hub sometimes with direct loads, and there ain’t many trailers which are strapped remotely near the official guidelines!
I agree they tend to use Internal nets and that is it. I think the curtains themselves are load bearing. If that makes a difference.
Drivers rarely get a chance to inspect load either due to them being sealed.
The parcel firms are just as bad everything is thrown on top of eachother in one big pile in the back of a box trailer. From lamposts to laptops.