Haulage shortage

[Badshot]

It might be the start of things to come, it's now happened a few times, having loads cancelled because there is no hauliers available.
Quick easy load my end, so don't think it's me causing issues.
Will we end up having to run our own lorries?

 

[JP1]

It might be the start of things to come, it's now happened a few times, having loads cancelled because there is no hauliers available.
Quick easy load my end, so don't think it's me causing issues.
Will we end up having to run our own lorries?

10985 JP thesis Writtle HND Ag: "The Value of the Farm Lorry" .......................

 

[Captain Mainwaring]

It's happened a few times here this year too. I think margins in haulage can be pretty thin which doesn't help.
Hopefully the higher demand sorts things out, I really don't fancy operating my own hgv.

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

Putting it politely, bulk haulage is in a pickle on a national scale, with a vast tonnage of 17 crop still to move to domestic homes.

Without an exportable surplus, 17 crop wheat and barley has been flowing the opposite way to a 'normal' year, which hasn't fit in with established haulage routes.

Haulage rates do not allow vehicles to run empty for more than an hour, which is why so many loads are getting dropped by hauliers and cancelled by merchants.

 

[Chae1]

10985 JP thesis Writtle HND Ag: "The Value of the Farm Lorry" .......................

Sounds like a good excuse to look here!

http://www.moodyinternational.co.uk/

 

[JP1]

Sounds like a good excuse to look here!

http://www.moodyinternational.co.uk/

Ha . Maybe . The main point of the thesis (and still rings true) is why some farmers ran their own transport or trailers - biosecurity, farming timing of operations etc etc. Still holds true

 

[puntabrava]

Ha . Maybe . The main point of the thesis (and still rings true) is why some farmers ran their own transport or trailers - biosecurity, farming timing of operations etc etc. Still holds true

Thing is they mostly had their licences taken away for maintenance issues!

 

[jondear]

Know a chap been hauling for Mvf for years and has had his contract for fert delivery ended because they tried to screw him down to unprofitable rates.

 

[ollie989898]

Know a chap been hauling for Mvf for years and has had his contract for fert delivery ended because they tried to screw him down to unprofitable rates.

Thats frankly ridiculous. Fertiliser haulage is a fupping nightmare before rates get brought into it.

Attempting to screw hauliers in a half assed attempt to be competitive on farm is pure muppetry. Id love to know who is running the MVF fertiliser show now.

 

[Daniel]

It might be the start of things to come, it's now happened a few times, having loads cancelled because there is no hauliers available.
Quick easy load my end, so don't think it's me causing issues.
Will we end up having to run our own lorries?

If you only want to use your lorry for 2 or 3 months a year do you still have to get it checked over every 6 weeks or whatever the requirement is?

 

[JP1]

If you only want to use your lorry for 2 or 3 months a year do you still have to get it checked over every 6 weeks or whatever the requirement is?

Think on limited mileages you can - with sufficient safeguards - get a derogation to about 9-12 weeks inspection intervals

 

[Daniel]

Think on limited mileages you can - with sufficient safeguards - get a derogation to about 9-12 weeks inspection intervals

I think that would put most people off running one on a casual basis?

 

[JP1]

I think that would put most people off running one on a casual basis?

If ever they did inspection intervals for higher speed higher weight ag combos, do you think anyone would get greater than 9-12 week inspection intervals?

 

[Renaultman]

If you only want to use your lorry for 2 or 3 months a year do you still have to get it checked over every 6 weeks or whatever the requirement is?

You can VOR (vehicle off road) it when not in use.

 

[bobk]

Who wants to collect dusty wheat when you can sit in an air conditioned cab on the M25 all day .

 

[No wot]

Remember 1984 when it was a bumper harvest and also the miners strike, Maggie T had every bulk lorry carrying coal and trying to get corn off you farm was hard work

 

[melted welly]

Thats frankly ridiculous. Fertiliser haulage is a fupping nightmare before rates get brought into it.

Attempting to screw hauliers in a half assed attempt to be competitive on farm is pure muppetry. Id love to know who is running the MVF fertiliser show now.

Some hauliers don't help don't help the situation. Undercut on the fert job by veg company using fert deliveries as back loads for their veg collections from farm and charging basically back load rates, so that's where the logistics dept set their benchmark for future rate negotiations.

 

[sahara]

Sounds like a good excuse to look here!

http://www.moodyinternational.co.uk/

The Iveco Turbo Star for sale there looks very familiar to me, spent many hours driving one of those a few years ago!

 

[marshallfarm]

Opposite for me this week. Hauliers want to collect but the mills are cancelling the loads

 

[ollie989898]

Some hauliers don't help don't help the situation. Undercut on the fert job by veg company using fert deliveries as back loads for their veg collections from farm and charging basically back load rates, so that's where the logistics dept set their benchmark for future rate negotiations.

There is no negotiation. Fertiliser is an utter sod of a product. Every man jack will delay delivery endlessly but wants it the first dry day the get in February. Then you have part loads to handle.

Id find a collection of hauliers who want to do and dont mind farm work. Offer them 1 quid a tonne more than the going rate and never have a single complaint about late delivery again.