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One of our customers has been asked to go back on the trowel at £400 a day for as long as they can keep selling houses.
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It used to be a mortgage wife and 2 kids kept me motivated In fairness it has been a really dismal day today.
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I had thought of building something like this to hire out with operator several years ago. The idea was to have the chipper on a turntable then blow into a trailer towed by the chipper truck.
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newly vat registered how to approach customers
scraggs replied to mitchel's topic in Business Management
Get your accountant to check, but you used to be able to claim vat back on major purchases for 3 years prior to registering date. -
newly vat registered how to approach customers
scraggs replied to mitchel's topic in Business Management
Did you not know you were going to register beforehand ? Pretty much the only thing you can do imo is suck it up on the private jobs, it's not really for the customer to pay 20% extra, or cancel them which won't look good. Any business customers won't care if you add it. You need to bare in mind that putting 20% on is not what you should really be doing, you will be reclaiming vat back on things so you need to deduct an appropriate proportion from the 20% you are trying to charge your customers. -
My last Ifor tri axle definately isn't as well built as my previous one, even the chaps who fitted the crane have commented on it. I saw a Towmate trailer the other month which are made locally and have to say I am extremely impressed with the build quality and extra nice touches it had , when they make a 14ft tri axle we will have one if it's built to the same standard.
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Biggest problem we had off road was you had to think about what you was doing well before you done it. If you were in hi range and got bogged down and stuck it appeared to wind the diffs up and you couldn't get it into low range. We just always ran it in low range off road in the end, but several times we had to be towed out.
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Total crap I wouldn't touch another if it was given to me. Unbelievably juicy when towing, gutless, piss poor build quality, would get stuck on a tarmac road, when you do get stuck and it's in high range good luck getting it into low. It was so good I went back to my 98 Defender Oh and synchro was dodgy on first gear from new, but the dealer insisted it was ok. Dealer offered a good price after I had it for a year, and I was glad to see the back of it. Like most European pickups they are toys.
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Has to be somewhere around £13k I would think. I have just listed my 110 Hicap, no MOT, 127k miles, rotten chassis, it is really only a rebuild, put up a couple of hours ago and have had over 30 inquiries and 5 want to view tomorrow.
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I'll watch this with interest. I will be getting rid of my 130 300tdi with galv chassis, I have a rough idea of what I think it's worth but I may be miles out. Landies are making silly money atm.
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The Iveco is a nice truck and a proper 4wd with high/low box, however Iveco don't have a demo version and haven't had for a few years, quite how they expect people to pay nearly £50k for a truck that you can't try before you buy I don't know. Also only available in 5500 kg upwards now. I have a Transporter 4x4 which is the 4motion, tbh I doubt it would take much abuse and would be crap for towing anything.
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Our local shitbag garage is currently charging £1.55 a litre for petrol. Looks like I'll be traveling to the next nearest from now on.
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It really goes to show just out of touch the government is with what is going on, there is a general driver shortage across the EU, so why would anyone want to come and drive over here where drivers are treated like crap.
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Bah if I can't get any diesel without queuing up this weekend I won't be delivering on Monday, fancy a few days off anyway In all seriousness though, why would anyone want to drive lorries for a living now days, hated by almost everyone else and who want's to spend the week shitting in hedges and sleeping in a box for crap pay, if they want more drivers they need to start by doing away with the CPC and then get the DVSA off the arse of drivers for trivial issues so they can pay their own wages.
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I am after a couple of turning blanks for a friend, they are for marine use and need to be 7 inch diameter and 3 inch thick, do you have anything suitable or know anyone who could help me find a couple ?
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This may help Red diesel changes
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If you have ever seen a lithium battery go bang I am not sure a home made one is something I would want to sleep next to. My understanding of them is they are very temperamental to charging voltages and equalisation. I would love to fit them on the boat but just went for bigger wet cell and a solar system, works well for our needs and haven't needed to connect to the mains yet to top up. They are silly money but have come down hugely over the last year or so.
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I am no longer amazed at how crap new things are, both in design and quality.
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An update on my 2 new Honda I fitted being as this thread is revived. The new small Honda engines are now made in China and it shows, build quality is bad, that and silly things like they have stopped including the tank fuel filters to save money. both have had carb problems, one was stripped by a Honda dealer and they agree there is a problem but haven't a clue what is causing it. I would now say there is no difference between Honda and Loncin anymore.
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It's an amount that is too small to worry about going through the hassle of seeing if you actually need to pay it. I was told a while back that if you read the site small print it isn't payable if the data is held for accounting purposes, how true that is I don't know as I couldn't be arsed to take the time to find out to save £40
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The last year since Covid imo has seen quite a number of people get more and more nasty and angry, both online and in real life. That said I still meet some incredibly nice people in my job. Site isn't the friendly place it used to be and has been part of the reason I post very little now days.
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I looked into this but it was a little while ago. According to the DVSA person I spoke to, although you are not towing if it has a tacho fitted you either need to use it all the time regardless or keep a log book of when you are using the truck and not using the tacho, when I questioned why I was told it was because there would be mileage discrepancies that could be questioned if ever they were checking your charts. If it was mine I would remove it.
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STOLEN IFOR WILLIAMS TRI AXLE FLAT TRAILER
scraggs replied to treestumpremoval's topic in Stolen Equipment
Sorry to hear, that's a lot of moneys worth of kit, will keep an eye out. Sadly Essex police done the same to me when my digger and trailer were stolen. They are probably too busy fining people for not wearing masks. -
Have you tried FB marketplace ?
