I though i would start a list of funny and stupid quotespeople may have had to cover a job.
This is simply because some people must be using a helicopter to complete their deliveries.
I will start.
We had a 2 pallet movement a few weeks ago from derby to london.
Someone quoted £256.00 + Vat.
1 envelope from nottingham to derby.
£75.00 + VAT
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Nottingham & Derby Couriers
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Maybe the guy was charging round trip from Shrewsbury ? ?
Nottingham & Derby Couriers
We have a guy on our subby list who a few weeks ago was desperte for work he wanted to do small van rates in his sprinter...................Now he has got a couple of his own customers he wants us to pay £1.45 a mile and have first refusal on all large van overspill work...............................Guess who we don't call anymore..
On my travels couriering up n down the country, it bemuses me the amount of people having a "go" at courier work who just dont bother with proper insurances (full h&r and git) using their personal cars to carry goods around for pennies per mile etc.
are these the people your looking for to do your work
Its couriers like that who give us all a bad name, People don't realize that all of us are hard working legitimate business workers, who are fully insured, pay taxes, and do the work as a business not just to make up there beer money, if the truth be know best part of them have never heard it Git Ins, or pay any tax on what they earn, and another point they are talking the food off our children s table,
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