Frank Brown Delivers Your Promises

A New Partnership

Frank — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:13:42 +0000

As many of you know we entered into a working partnership with Wallington Cars & Couriers back in March. So far this has been an extremely successful move. We are now able to offer much better rates to many destinations, particularly London Postcodes. We are also able to offer a much wider variety of vehicle, often at very short notice, and it seems that this is becoming rapidly very popular with our clients. We are now being asked to quote for lorries as well as large vans such as Mercedes Sprinters and Luton Tail-Lifts.

Another change is the much better rate for Overnight deliveries – prices starting from just £7.95 + VAT for next working day delivery in most of the UK. Have a look at our Overnight pricelist on the website for more details.

We can also tap into the 24 hour service which Wallington Cars & Couriers offer. If you regularly need vehicles during the night let us know and we can provide you with a 24 hour telephone number to call out of hours.

If you have any queries about anything please give us a ring – we hope that you will find this new partnership as exciting and rewarding as we do.

Make a day of it

Frank — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:47:06 +0000

Have you ever thought about using a courier for the day? If you have several deliveries in the same area (brochures for example) then why not talk to us about a day rate? This can often prove much cheaper than you think and can be a very cost effective way of getting your goods to your customers quickly and efficiently. Give us a ring for a price!

London Congestion Charge

Frank — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:15:35 +0000

From Tuesday 4^th January 2011 the London Congestion Charge Zone is being made smaller but the charge for the remainder is increasing. The postcodes that will no longer have the congestion charge applied to them are London W2, W8, W10, W11, SW3 and SW7. All the other postcodes that are in the congestion zone will be charged at £9 instead of the previous £8. If you have any queries about this then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Local Radio

Frank — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:42:34 +0000

Do you ever listen to local radio? I didn’t until quite recently and I have to say that I never realised just how essential it is. We listen to BBC Radio Surrey in the office and the traffic and travel updates are brilliant. All the websites that you can visit seem to suffer from the same problem – they aren’t kept updated frequently enough. Yesterday I was looking on National Rail Enquiries website in the morning to see if there were any trains from Nutfield to Redhill and it all seemed fairly normal. However Radio Surrey said that there were no trains running on the Tonbridge Line at all yesterday morning and they were absolutely correct. So tune your radio to 104FM or 104.6FM and keep yourself well informed.

What van do you need?

Frank — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:34:12 +0000

If you’re unsure what vehicle you need then why not ask our advice? As long as you have a rough idea of the dimensions and weight we can sort out what size of vehicle you need. For instance one of our customers had a couple of large crates to transport which would have been very difficult to lift – so we sorted out a Luton Transit with a tail lift and a pallet truck on board. That way we saved everybody from needing a chiropractor! We have a variety of different sized vehicles to call upon at quite short notice – when we haven’t got the right sized van on our own fleet.

Tweet Tweet

Frank — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:14:27 +0000

Ever wondered what Twitter was all about? Well I bit the bullet earlier this week and had a look. In fact more than that, I’m now a Tweeter. Why not follow me on Twitter and give me some regular feedback? My twitter name is FrankBrownDeliv – yes there weren’t enough spaces but I guess you’ll know who I am! If any of you are experienced Tweeters and want to pass on your advice and experience then I’d be very grateful. It’s like another language to me at the moment. Who knows I might even look at Facebook one day!

Chilean miners

Frank — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:00:47 +0000

Isn’t it wonderful to have a leading news item which has a happy ending? The story of the 33 miners in Chile has touched the hearts of the world and it certainly brought a tear to my eyes watching the news last night. Congratulations to all who were involved with the dramatic rescue mission.

A good day’s work

Frank — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:11:44 +0000

Something we have done at this time of year is to deliver prospectuses for local colleges and this has made me realise that we can offer a similar service to other clients. Do you have several deliveries going out at the same time? Maybe towards Christmas (sorry I know I shouldn’t use that word when we’re still only in September!) you might want to drop calendars or gifts to your regular clients. If the deliveries are all quite close to each other then we might be able to compete very favourably with the Royal Mail or whatever other method you might usually use. We can charge you a daily rate – with prices starting at just £160 + VAT based on an eight hour day and delivery points being within a 15 mile radius of your location (London postcodes excluded). Our drivers are all very experienced and have a good knowledge of the local area so they are able to get a good many deliveries done in a day. Why not give us a call and ask the question? You might be pleasantly surprised at how little it could cost.

Book in advance

Frank — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:05:35 +0000

Did you know there are great advantages to booking your courier early? An example of this happened just last week. One of our clients needed to get some goods over to Ireland urgently. Because the goods had to be over there for the next working day we were unable to get the best deals from our international shippers and as a result the cost was too great for our clients. If we had been given two or three days then we could have got a much better price, possibly as much as 50% cheaper. Another example is actually the reverse of this. Another of our clients needed to get some goods back from Manchester and told us at the beginning of the week in case we had another trip going that way. As it happened we had a trip to Redditch a couple of days later (which took us well on the way) and we were able to offer our clients a much reduced price for the Manchester journey.

We appreciate that one of the main reasons why people use a courier is because their goods are urgent. However there are many occasions where events are known about well in advance and transport can be organised beforehand and a great deal of money saved! So the moral of the story is – if you know you’re going to need a courier let us know as soon as possible and we can start looking at the various options in order to save you money. And don’t forget we still offer our Economy Document Service to Central London from just £30 + VAT with no congestion charge!

Back to Uni

Frank — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:55:52 +0000

Are you or your youngsters busy preparing to go back to university? Are you wondering how to get all the stuff in the car or on the train? What about using an overnight courier to send your belongings? As long as everything is securely packaged and well labelled then this can be quite a cheap option. With prices starting at just £12 + VAT for up to 20kgs for next day delivery we feel this is a very viable alternative. There needs to be someone around all day to sign for the delivery but otherwise there are no strings attached (except of course for the ones keeping everything tied securely!). In fact for just £3 more (+VAT) the delivery can be made before midday so freeing up the afternoon to locate the local pubs and clubs (an essential part of university life so I’m led to believe!)

Alternatively perhaps there are a few of you locally going to universities all in the same general direction. What about clubbing together and paying for a van + driver to take all the goods up there directly. This might cost less than you think. Give us a call and we’ll be glad to help.