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No thanks I need another landy project like I need the hole in my backside to seal up

Most of our trade customers have closed anyway, it's our private side that will hit us, but we will get through it financially, tbh if after nearly 40 years of trading we couldn't I would shut the business permanently anyway. If you read what came out it was initially on Monday night and Tuesday "non essential" businesses. For me the media places little bearing on my decision, my girlfriends background and knowledge in the subject however does. If everyone had a grasp of contamination control I would feel a lot different to how I do but I am still amazed by the amount of builders and landscapers vans still going around with 2 or 3 people in the cab, and people I see still ignoring the distancing advice.

Unfortunately in my trade one of the companies that has stayed open has recently just started, is backed by a local arrogant farmer and has used this time to poach customers.

Trouble is it's the very large proportion who think they do but actually don't have a bloody clue that are a danger to everyone. At the end of the day it's down to the individual if they want to carry on or not. When this is over I will be able to say I have done as much as I could to ease the burden on the NHS and help control it's spread, whilst my competitors will be able to say I made a shed load of money because there was no competition, I know which one sits better with me.

I have 3 landy 300tdi engines and boxes to take out repair and put back in a different order. Not a project I can get too enthusiastic about

I still stick to what I have said from the start. It isn't just a case of social distancing, what about cross contamination ?, and I wonder how many of you working truly understand how to control it, it's not just driving to site in separate vehicles. Put some glitter on your hands and see where it's got to after a few hours. Let's say you have an accident, it's a dangerous business, good luck with getting treatment, and is it right to put the extra burden on the NHS at a time when doctors and nurses are dying trying to save people, that may be a member of my family at some point. We have lost a considerable amount of money over the last 2 weeks we have been shut and I expect it to be a few more weeks as yet, but I know for us it's the right thing to do, I know we have lost customers to my competitors who have stayed open. I really hope that businesses who carry on do get shamed on FB and the likes, is it really fair on those that have stayed shut ? I would imagine at some point after this there will be a whole load of no win no fee firms taking business owners to court on behalf of staff who caught it, or by family if they died.

That will probably be just as economical as modern stuff, it's a ploder and built to last for ever. Proper british engineering.

Probably a little bit unfair to put the blame solely on the supermarkets, it's also the consumer who expects everything cheaper and the woe is me farmer who want's bigger profits that are to blame.

This is going to be shit for a lot of people mate, I am under no illusion on that. The government has offered to do what it can, but that could take ages to sort out, I really feel for people in that situation. But as others have said, there are a lot of trades around this area that have been earning £200-£250 a day, what have they done with all that money ? But what is the options, shall we all just say fuck it ?

No it isn't, today's figures look grim and I don't like to be a scare monger but without people doing what has been asked it will look scarily worse, anyone who tries to liken this to the flu doesn't understand anything about a "Novel Corona Virus" and should stay in for their own safety. I take my hat off to anyone who stopped or shut down. I am gutted this week to learn that of all the firms I spoke to on Tuesday morning that agreed they would shut down, there is only 2 of us that did, It's bloody depressing to know those tossers are out there carrying on and taking some of the work we should be doing, but then my family are far more important to me than anything else.

I wouldn't stand even 2 metres near someone indoors let alone 1metre, I stand over 2 metres indoors or outdoors. How far does a cough spread

Interested in this post as I have been looking to get a G coupler or similar, I bought a milwauki 18v grease gun but have the usual problems with the coupling.

We have been trying to do that for years. I especially love my British made work boots, the quality is unbelievable.

Debatable if this has been around for a while. One of the children my g/f looks after is like a tank, never ever ill and came back from a holiday abroad and was really ill, like the flu but really bad, got passed around a large part of his family.

Shame more people don't have the intelligence to realise that. I am gobsmacked at the amount of businesses that are still working around here as if sod all is wrong, trucks going about with 2 or 3 blokes in the cab.

You will be knackered at 50p a time ?

That paragraph proves you understand fuck all about cross contamination.

That's it for us until further notice, still amazed at the amount of calls I have had asking if we are going to carry on working. If people would only understand that if they actually did what was being asked of them this will pass a hell of a lot quicker. Building sites all working around here today, groups of blokes in the vans, do people not have the savvy to realise 6 weeks now will do less harm to the economy especially the building trade than if it goes on for longer, which it undoubtedly will if they don't pull their heads out of their arses and do what is asked of them.

I would take "premises" to mean where the public would congregate and "non essential businesses" to mean what it says. Trouble is people will interpret it how they want. I personally don't have an issue with closing down for however long it takes, as much as anyone says "I won't be near anyone" the reality is that it is most likely crap imo, what about getting fuel and various other things ?

pretty plain really "Non-essential businesses and premises must now shut"

Well I have been busy cancelling deliveries for the rest of the week. I am just delivering what's already on the truck and that's it for 3 weeks or so. Looks like I will finally get the chance to swap over my landy engines.

I am still delivering, but have told customers we will call when outside their house, they can point to where they want it dropped, pay by card over the phone and invoice will be emailed to them, so we have no contact with them or anyone else whatsoever. Feels a bit wrong to me though to be working whilst all this is going on.

We used QB offline version for quite a few years a long time ago, I was going to use the latest offline version this time, but heard they were stopping it and were not going to support it any longer.

I did use a custom built package, but thanks to MTD we either had to pay a fortune and have it rewritten to submit VAT returns how HMRC wants them, or change over to something else. Most accounts software is now cloud based which I didn't want as we quite often loose our net connection, and also the chance of fraud, I also didn't want to pay monthly to use it, so after loads of going through MTD software chose what appears to be the only offline one off payment accounts software now available which was Adminsoft accounts. It has taken loads of getting used to but the support is good and once you get the hang of it does everything we need, it doesn't link to your bank account though as far as I am aware.

I have been wondering about this lately, who or what defines an "insecure load" isn't it only insecure if it comes off ? We strap our loads but I know from experience that if I have to brake hard sometimes the pallets can collapse rendering the straps pretty useless.