Mark Bolam
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Getting rid of lowballing customers is the single best thing you can do for your business IMO. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I should probably add 'or was' as a caveat. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just telling it how it is. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Right. You've ticked all the boxes legally hauling weight. Where to? Down to your yard or farmers yard where everything is 100% legal and nothing is ever burnt that wasn't produced on site? The whole arb/legal thing is bullshit. I don't know of a single firm that isn't consistently breaking the law. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Poor bloke in the original post only wanted a slightly bigger truck. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Aaaaarrrgghhhhh my neck! My neck! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Very true Mick, just got the green light on 3 biggies for this exact reason. -
I see this one more simply. I wouldn't want to live next to someone who thinks it's alright to inflict a tree like that on their neighbour. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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This. I like my truck in range of my dog's lugs and my Beretta. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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It's horses for courses JP. That's a lovely setup, but entirely useless for about 3/4 of my jobs. Bob, you usually talk sense, but your last post about small gardens was total shite. Half our jobs are medium trees with side access up a max 4' ginnel. Decent access we whistle up the farm boys with the Matbro and grain trailer. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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We're all on the same page here lads. Where do we go? Legit is the right answer of course, but you'll lose out to the overloaded (like me) brigade. I'm a bit sick of hearing 'our 18 tonner will get in anywhere a Transit will' as well. If you've being doing this for any length of time you'll know that's bullshit. It's a real problem for domestic arb. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I'm guilty as sin of overloading, hand on heart most of us are, or have been. The problem as I see it is there is no middle ground between 3.5T and O licence. Pete I disagree about other industries. Far more tippers are sold to construction firms than arb, and they're not using them to tip kit or staff. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Fell. Replant. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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It won't take you years with your skills Ali. You need to stop knocking off 3 day jobs by 1pm on day 1! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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When I was registered I was subjected to an inspection that took 3 months and me delivering and collecting a box full of all my records down to their local office in Hastings. The result was I owed them the VAT back I had claimed on a copy of FHM and and a packet of Marlboro Lights which I recklessly included on a £70 diesel receipt. Fellow taxpayers I can only apologise for my transgression. It was me or Google. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Paying VAT on postage is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Haha, it never bothers me normally mate, I keep shopping on arb sites till I get my money's worth! £11.90 bolt package for the TW rocking in at over £21 pissed me off though. No new shoes for the kids again this week. Or the wife. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I'm sorry I started this thread. VAT is probably the worst thing to happen to this country since Inheritance Tax. And Strictly Come Dancing. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I think, and hope, in years to come being AA approved will become the norm for pro companies like Gas Safe or Part P is for plumbers and sparks. Prices will go up, cowboys will leave town. That's the dream, anyway. If I was heading up rather than scaling back I'd go AA no worries. Simply not worth it for me now. A lot of you are probably already much closer to compliance than you think (or you should be!). Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I'll swap you the wine voucher for a box of one-shots with only a few missing. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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I've looked into this today. Postal charges BY THE POST OFFICE are VAT exempt. Anyone else has to take it dry, no lube. That seems fair, the Post Office are always sending me good stuff.... As you were fellas, sorry Huck. It wasn't a pop at you Mark, Skylands postage is insignificant beside your massive prices and terrible service! Every cloud mate! [emoji3] Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Massively beneficial to both bodies, contractors and ultimately clients I would have thought Tom. Over to you Paul! Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
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Not really, I untie it and replace it every few years. Slack tending and release is unoticeable, although I do have mans arms.
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Wrong. Postage charges from the Post Office are VAT exempt.
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That's exactly my beef Gary. If they had to pay the PO postage + VAT fair do's, but they don't.
