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`We're looking for contractors with good local knowledge!'
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livened. Red Star pays nothing towards the vans, 80% of which it insists must be in its colours at the end of the first year. Peterson employs four full-time drivers, three part-timers, two office workers and a mechanic, and is handling 170 consignments a night.
He is confident of retaining the Fife contract in 1992, and has tendered for other areas in Scotland. He claims the Red Star business gives him access to a next-day delivery system which, as an independent, he could not have. Before joining Red Star, Peterson worked in parcels for nine years. He concentrated on local courier work, taking the odd longdistance consignment in an emergency.
He says the agency deal, where he is paid by Red Star for every parcel he carries, beats a franchise arrangement.
"You have more control of the business. There is no one to bother you, although you do have to comply with Red Star's regulations."
Elby Murdo Morrison