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Green Business Exhibition

Posted on April 27th, 2009 No Comments

Would you like to green up your supply chain? Get to know who in Essex is greener, who is sustainable and who you would like to do business with at this great event.

Would you like to meet environmental service companies that operate in the Basildon District?

Would you like to shop around for recycling or waste carrier companies?

Need help with green transport or reducing your energy costs?

Need help with promoting your green credentials?

Like to do business with other environmentally aware companies?

You can do all of the above by attending the Environmental Service
Providers Market Place event on July 13 at 1400h at the Basildon Holiday
Inn hotel, SS14 3DG.

It is free to attend. The event will start at 1400h with a short presentation from the Environment Agency about their support for businesses followed by a talk from Envirowise about the importance of green procurement.

Attendees will then be able to visit the stands of the 30 exhibiting green companies.

Refreshments will be provided.

This event is organised by the Basildon Green Business Forum in
conjunction with the Federation of Small Businesses, the Environment
Agency and Envirowise.

To register to attend please go to website
http://www.fsb.org.uk/default.aspx?id=180&loc=101 and fill in your details
or contact Keith Brown at keith.brown@fsb.org.uk

All enquiries regarding exhibiting to Keith Smith or Colin Stroud at
green.business@basildon.gov.uk Tel: 01268 294294.

Here is a list of the 30 exhibiting companies as of April 22, 2009:-
Abby Couriers (use of electric vehicles)
Ahern waste management
Arrow Light Haulage (yes, thats us )
Asbestos Central
Basildon Green Business Forum
Basildon ITEC
BioTekNiks 100% IT recycling services
E&B Waste
Eastex, waste exchange
Enigin, energy saving solutions
EnviroComms, marketing communication agency working exclusively in the
environmental sector
Environment Agency
Envirowise
Essex & East London Van Services Ltd
Events Matter
FAT Management Ltd, waste solutions
Federation of Small Businesses
Hailstone Travel
LowC Energy Services Ltd
Morgan Cass
Organisation for Responsible Businesses
RAMAR
RDC, IT Equipment Disposal, Remarketing and Redeployment
Rentokil/Initial
Scott Wilson
Severnside Recycling (Basildon)
Simons Bus
TBU Solutions, Commercial Utility Advisors
The Eco Patch
Viridor (Thames Waste)

Contact Colin Stroud and Keith Smith from the Basildon Green Business Forum 01268 294294 / 07703 582368

The Basildon Green Business Forum can help you with any environmental
issues. Help is entirely free. Please contactÂ Colin or Keith for more
information.

Sarah

Greener transport and deliveries in Essex

Posted in Sameday Courier

How can you be sure of Delivery?

Posted on February 18th, 2009 No Comments

Thousands of undelivered items of mail have been found stored in an Essex garage, police said.

Essex police made the discovery at a property in the village of Vange, near Basildon, earlier in the week.Â Source :BBC

Same day courier services rarely miss a delivery (well ours don’t, 100% success rate so far) so if its really important or really valuable you should send it with a same day courier. It is an entirely different service to the mail service provided by Royal Mail, and you are charge according to distance rather than a flat rate fee.

The item stays with the driver
It’s locked securely in the vehicle
It’s delivered in the vehicle and with the driver that collected it
It’s not transhipped (moved to a variety of vehicles)

So, if it has to get there, use your local courier company.

Sarah

Posted in Sameday Courier

Parcel Delivery: Flat Rate Courier

Posted on December 3rd, 2008 2 Comments

When you book a parcel courier do you read the small print?

Last week we took on a new customer who had read the ’small print’ and found it not to his liking until he came to us. When doing his research he found that he would often be charged a ’surcharge’ for delivering to a private address rather than a business address – between £3-£5 extra. He would also be charged a 5% fuel surcharge, and if he went over weight by even just a kilo, he would be charged an extra £3.00 as well.

He started to add it all up and realised the £8.95+VAT he was being charged for delivery wasn’t that cheap once the ’surcharges’ had been added, if fact it could double the initial price for a parcel!

At Arrow Light Haulage we believe in a transparent pricing system – that the cost is determined by the items weight, and thats it. The only extras we charge for are items such as packing and wrapping materials, again this is optional.

So, if you have a parcel to collect in Basildon, Chelmsford or West Thurrock & Dartford just click on the banners below – we are a flat rate courier, no surcharges unless of course you want us to charge for them