courior how much ££ per drop

kinglewis121

hi mate thanks again rly good info , the bloke i was talking about has a mercedes sprinter , and he works self employed for city link , what i dnt understand is he said they are laying off theyre normal drivers IE official city link drivers but saying his job was safe surely it would work out cheaper for them to get rid of the free lancers

PS to Jess im not being in any way sexist but if your female i dont think this would be for you some people are pretty ruthless with what they send i know my dad had some really horrible stuff to load and unload with no help at all . but just thinking now why dont you try the likes of catalogues as i always have a woman comes in a people carrier to deliver our stuff

max2009

With owner drivers they do not have to pay redundancy as if they had their own drivers doing the work and the work dropped off.Also i read last week that city link are in big financial trouble.

schneckster

Max2009 is part right. With the downturn in business a lot of the big boys are shedding staff with one eye on redundancy payments.

The other part is that with sub-contractor/self employed drivers, they don't have to pay National Insurance contributions and all the other overheads that come with having employees.

But there's a catch to that. If the tax man looks at a driver's books and sees that they have only worked for one company, and/or their vehicle belongs to the company they're working for... or is at least liveried up for that company, then the tax man will view that driver as an employee and will hit the company for back dated NI, the driver for back dated income tax as an employee and then hit both with fines. I know of a couple of courier companies and drivers that went to the wall as a result of this happening.

I didn't work like this, though. I worked for several different courier companies and owned/leased (from a van company) my van, so the tax man would never view me as an employee. Funny thing was, I did plenty of work for the likes of City Link delivering stuff their multidrop drivers couldn't find at better rates than their drivers normally got.

Schneckster