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Break ins / thefts - any common MO?
scraggs replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Business Management
I noticed a rise in incidents the last few weeks, a sure sign Christmas is coming. If buying a new trailer especialy Ifor's make sure you are not followed home from the dealers, it's how they knew and tried to get my new one the night it was brought back, and someone local had theirs stolen the night after the dealer delivered it to them, apparently becoming quite common. -
Lloyds are very well built bits of kit, would be a shame to see that not working as it should do. I ran a set of Lloyds leda gang mowers for years without any hassle, they were built like tanks.
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I only questioned it due to using a minibus, which under similar circumstances requires a CPC. I don't have an issue with vehicle maintenance checks, I have my 3 trucks used for towing inspected independently even though they don't have to be, but due to them towing at full capacity all the time I am happy to have the piece of mind. But from bitter experience I know what VOSA can be like when they want to dig their heels in (I am being really polite there)
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Indeed I don't really see what the problem is with tacho's O licences were always our biggest issue when running lorries, and that will get worse with VOSA being self funded imo. Eddie are you sure you wouldn't need a CPC ?, you will be driving for hire and reward at the end of the day, even though it is indirectly.
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I would love some but you are a bit too far away.
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Shame to hear they still have the same bad customer service. As I have said before, if they don't return calls for a sale what chance have you got if it goes wrong, especially under warranty. Shame, as on paper it appeared the best of the bunch for me.
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I do this with one of my customers, they get quite a lot of work from us and this type of thing has happened on quite a few occasions over the years, they always give me my cut regardless of customer going direct to them at a later date or me passing it to them, tbh if they didn't I would be rather offended being as they wouldn't have got the work in the first place. It's work I could do myself but would rather pass it on and take a cut
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Fair Play Sainsbury's! Respect! Awesome!
scraggs replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in The Lounge
That probably needs to be put into perspective imo The RBL will receive 50p from every £1 bar sold of Belgian chocolate made in the town of Ypres. Be interesting to see just how much that will amount to, although any amount is good, but can't help feeling that will help soften the critics of the add. Sorry I don't really agree with it and feel it's a very disrespectful marketing ploy. -
Looked like an insecure and pain in the backside way of investing to me "Investment through Funding Circle involves lending to small and medium sized businesses, so your investment can go down as well as up."
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I know little about tank sizes but that sounds a bit small, that's circulating nearly 3 times a minute and I would think you need to consider the heat of the oil on a small tank. But I stand to be corrected.
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That's looks a nice piece of kit.
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Was hunting ebay earlier for something and this one came up in the similar items county tractor
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I thought this had been cleared up between ifor and vosa, just because a trailer has a plated weight it doesn't mean you will use it.
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They insisted it was getting results, but call counter says from July- sept 2 calls I will now put that money into advertising elsewhere.
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They give the add a phone number that goes through to your number and that call is a counted call when someone dials it
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We tend to find old people still use yp, for what it costs I will keep it going until they fold. Yell.com for us is a complete waste of money, best thing yell done was put the call counter on it, as it has backfired on them
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Are you sure that is correct for the 3500kg, as much as I don't like it my 10x5 ifors payload is 2625kg, I noticed what appears to be quite a few mistakes on the brian james website for the twin and tri axle flatbeds unladen weights.
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Do you keep any parts in stock ?
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I would probably have a punt at it myself but parts availability appears to be an issue when I was looking at them.
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Not UK registered and has 414k km on the clock
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Land cruiser pick up those plates certainly aren't British though Phone numbers tally with a website of the same name
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I use a low wattage electric fan to push the heat out of the room, works very well, I would use an ecofan but don't have room above the fire for one.
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I have had them and still use it but went back to BT. I originally used BT and call divert to a mobile but that's a really expensive way to do it, so went with vodafone one-net, which was £66.00 a month inc vat with unlimited calls, texts and 1GB data, however the sevice started to get really bad a couple of years in and it went down completely for nearly 2 days at one point, we lost a lot of business with it and didn't realise until regular customers started saying they have had trouble getting through. So decided to go back to BT, but now if you take a BT mobile aswell all diverted calls are free, yes it costs a bit more but at least if there is a network problem we still have a physical landline.
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15 year old machine, personally I would change the hydraulic oil and filter for peace of mind.
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Even if you hadn't won it he would have probably contacted you to say the winner had backed out, it's the usual thing.
