Category: Courier Business

Err, actually no it isn’t. I was reading a blog post the other day about headlines and it happened to mention that if you were in haulage you should mention haulage as a keyword in your headline. The comments were closed, which was a shame (can’t leave a comment there) and as that is often […]

Last week was a bit tumultuous: riots and stolen, looted goods on the increase. That makes life a little more interesting for us  providers of same day courier services.  We don’t deliver stolen goods and we have to do some due diligence before we take bookings to deliver high value goods. On Monday we get a […]

There are quite a few types of courier service available, and if you don’t know the difference you can find you are wasting time and making calls to the wrong companies. A dedicated courier is similar to a same day courier, but your goods are on a dedicated vehicle. There are no other loads or […]

A while back I participated in a transport survey over on LinkedIn. The results have just come back and I thought I’d share them here, they make  interesting reading. Encouraging public transport use is the top answer as you can see, I wonder how that will impact long haul deliveries? Some creative thought is needed […]

is that most marketers don’t listen. It’s true. Do you recall a few months back I blogged about the term “haulage”? and how I get a slew of calls relating to selling me something? Because when people search for the term “haulage” rather than the term same day courier (which we wish to be found […]

Is something we often hear as same day couriers, from frustrated customers who don’t really understand the value of their own time. For example last week we were asked to quote to deliver a passport to Bristol, urgently required for identification purposes. If the recipient failed to have sufficient identification ie the passport then they couldn’t attend […]