Steve Blackie, the man behind 747 Express Freight. is also
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keen to develop same-day hire, where a customer would have access to a tractor unit within an hour of phoning. "People [who already know us] can ring to get that type of service, but you can't afford to do it with a 260;000 tractor sat in the yard," he says.
"The price for a same-day load is such we would run back empty because it would make more money the next day doing another load"
He admits it is a hard market to gauge, although existing customers such as TNT and LINPAC Packaging do make use of the service. With contracts few and far between these days, same-day artic work could mean three days out of five in a given week. You need to have that flexibility with staff.
"All our existing customers are within a 10-mile radius, but the artic work will need to expand beyond that radius. I am sure there is a market out there," he adds With event management and same-day artic work, the more we can move away from courier work the better."