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To tag or not to tag?

August 22, 2009 By

Throughout the summer months traffic around Dartford and West Thurrock can get really congested. Being based only seven miles from the Dartford Crossing we frequently use the bridge and tunnel to get across the river.

Over the past ten years the traffic has dramatically increased.  To overcome the problem of increased traffic creating excessive delays, the operating company that manage the bridge and it’s toll system came up with the ‘DARTtag’ idea.

The DARTtag is a free to use service which allows you to cross the bridgeor tunnel without having to scrabble about for loose change.

Recent studies have proved the flow of traffic increases when using the DARTtag. The crossing company at one point introduced a single lane for ‘DARTtag’ car owners and this lane flowed freely, constantly. More recently they decided to no longer use this lane.

Being an Essex based courier company it makes financial sense for us to use the ‘DARTtag’ like most other businesses that operate business vehicles.  Why haven’t the crossing company  therefore introduced ‘DARTtag’ lanes for commercial vehicles of anything above a car size?

This would without question make traffic flow better and ease daily congestion at the bridge and tollbooths.

Kevin

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Sending parcels abroad

February 17, 2009 By

Out of the 10 or so telephone quotes I answer a day, the most frequent is how much to send a parcel to… and then an EU country or outlying island is named.

So I tell the potential customer how much and they 9/10 say its too expensive, so I ask how much they were expecting to pay and the answer is always in the region of £2-3. How can anyone cover their costs let alone make a profit if people are expecting to only pay ‘domestic small parcel’ rate to send something international?

Why so expensive? well staff are involved, they have to be paid at least minimum wage. Would you work for nothing? No? then why expect our staff to? Fuel is involved, pensions have to be paid into, vans maintained and all of that costs money. Parcel companies operate on volume, it isn’t cost effective to ship one small package half a continent… but it is to ship many small packages.

So save yourself some time and money, when looking to move small parcels less than 5kgs, try worldwide-parcelservices first because that is one of the cheapest options.

Be aware of what distance and factors are involved in your parcels journey, the further it goes, the more it costs.

If it is fragile, glass or bulky then you need a courier – and that is more expensive than than a parcel company but the service is completely different.

Sarah
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