How do you find clients for a trade plate delivery business

[adrianblackstone01]

How do you find clients for a trade plate delivery business, let me know if you have some interesting methods.

Edited by adrian0001 on Friday 26th September 09:50

[Doofus]

Don't you know any of the clients your previous employer has?

This and your other post suggest to me that you've started this business before doing any of the plannig that you should have done beforehand.

[Jon39]

I suppose you offer a service to deliver unregisterd, driveable cars.
For trade plate delivery, Royal Mail would do that.

Many of your potential customers would use a transport firm. Private individuals probably tend to do what I do, and use a covered trailer transport service.

Have you canvassed motor dealers?
As you will know, car dealers that offer collect and deliver arrangements for servicing, tend to use their own employees, often semi-retired gents. They do the trade plate driving as well.

I know a man who began a vehicle delivery service using trailers and transporters, which has grown considerably.
There is a thought.

Edited by Jon39 on Monday 29th September 09:05

[JimmyConwayNW]

There are tonnes of whatsapp groups and facebook groups for vehicle dealers and needing drivers for driven / trailer delivery.

Easiest way is to undercut a little to start with, be reliable, punctual and let people know where you are and then they will use you again for an easy life.

My favourite trade platers provide a tracking link via whatsapp live location or similar and just let you know they have the car, appraise it and highlight anything major, and tell you what time they will be back.

Simple.

[Trevor555]

Auto trader moves is the best platform for picking up vehicle movements work.

[ADJimbo]

I’ve used MOVEX before - it’s a bidding platform where independent vehicle movers / trade platers bid for the job. The rationale is that once they’ve dropped something off locally then it’s a way of getting a return load / job to where they need to be.

They’re a mixed-bag in all fairness and I’ve stopped using them for that reason. I had a couple of bad experiences with them so stopped using them in all fairness - one delivery failed on a Friday and West Midlands Police seized the car for being used without taxi insurance in Birmingham on the Saturday night being one major stumbling block…

Might we worth looking into OP as it’ll be a route into qualified customers.

[adrian0001]

ADJimbo said:

I ve used MOVEX before - it s a bidding platform where independent vehicle movers / trade platers bid for the job. The rationale is that once they ve dropped something off locally then it s a way of getting a return load / job to where they need to be.

They re a mixed-bag in all fairness and I ve stopped using them for that reason. I had a couple of bad experiences with them so stopped using them in all fairness - one delivery failed on a Friday and West Midlands Police seized the car for being used without taxi insurance in Birmingham on the Saturday night being one major stumbling block

Might we worth looking into OP as it ll be a route into qualified customers.

Thank you for your reply, but I do not understand what is OP?

[Ham_and_Jam]

adrian0001 said:

Thank you for your reply, but I do not understand what is OP?

That is you, the Original Poster

[POORCARDEALER]

As already said , get on the trade Facebook sites , you ll soon have work