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The 5 Biggest Problems Faced by Couriers | Pete the Courier Driver

Finding addresses is one of the hardest parts of courier delivery. But you probably already know that. But did you know that for independent couriers, finding the work can be the hardest part to start with? So what other problems should you consider when you're just starting out? Well, today Pete's going to break down the top 5 problems you could have and how to solve them. RESOURCES & LINKS: ____________________________________________ Try Circuit Route Planner for free: https://circu.it/OOmi8X How to Confidently Learn Your Delivery Route:    • How to Confidently Learn Your Deliver...   7 Greatest Habits to Adopt as a Courier Driver:    • 7 GREATEST Habits to Adopt as a Deliv...   ____________________________________________ CHAPTERS 00:00 - intro 00:18 - 1. Finding work 01:23 - 2. Traffic jams 02:47 - 3. Finding the location 03:56 - 4. Dead miles 04:59 - 5. Getting paid ____________________________________________ #1 Finding work There are ways about going about it. You can sign up with an agency. You can sign up with a platform, or you can go down the multi-stop route. Everyone's slightly different. What I would recommend is, sign up as much as possible. If you're going to be your own man with your own van, sign up with all the platforms and speak to your local courier firm and put a ticket in your local newsagent and get yourself on Facebook Marketplace. Sometimes you don't quite know where it's going to come from. It will happen. It's not the most difficult industry to get into at the moment. #2 Traffic No one loves traffic. It's an occupational hazard. There's going to be times where you're going to be late for drops because there's been a massive accident, and then the road's been shut or the motorway's been shut or a freeway's been shut. There's going to be times where you have a puncture. Something goes wrong with the motor. Situations like this are two best ways to get around it. 1. Get yourself a decent live traffic satnav. I personally think the ones with the phone work really well. My recommendation is Waze. I find Waze is fantastic. It's one I use all the time. Google also works very, very well because it will give you live updates. 2. If you are going to be late, ring the customer and say, "I'm going to be late. I've had a puncture. There's been an accident. I don't know how long it's going to take. #3 Finding the location This is the bane of most people's life. This is going to hurt you multi-drop drivers more than it hurts to drive. You're going to have to find 100, 200 drops a day. In situations like these, you need a decent route finder. Sometimes you can't find a place, so you have to stop and ask people. Use Google. So you have to ask local people, do Google, ring the person who's given you the job. If there's a phone number on the paperwork, ring it. #4 Dead miles This is either between drops or when you got to a place coming back. Once again between drops: Circuit, it's the way forward because you don't want to be going, "Right, okay, well, I've got these drops NN1, NN2, NN3." And then you get half way through the run and you get back and you realize you're on the other side of the road of where you were before. As for getting back, once again, sign up to the platforms. Sign up to anything that, when you've been delivered, because if you're working for a company and they might send you 100 miles up the road, and you ring them up and you go, "You got anything coming back?" And they go, "No, nothing at the moment," they're not going to have. Their customers are 100 miles away.. And you don't know anybody's customers up there, which is why a decent backload platform will get you home. #5 Getting paid Now, most of the jobs you'll do if you're a freelance person will be on an invoice: 30 days, 60 days, 30 days, end of the month and all that kind of stuff. And then you'll find yourself in a situation. Most people are decent. Quite a few of them need a little bit of a nudge. Get on top of it. You don't have to be nasty. Don't ring up screaming and shouting. You just ring up and you go, "You ain't paid me." And then hopefully, you'll get the right reaction. If a few more days go by and they still haven't paid you, you turn the heat up. But that's a very basic version of the five things that you're going to be facing and some small solutions to it. We'll probably go into that in more detail later on in other videos, but I just hope that gives you a general help. ►Subscribe:    / @circuitapp   to learn more about how Circuit helps you to get home earlier. ►Find us on Facebook:   / circuitrouting​app   ►Check out Pete the Courier Driver on YouTube:    / etep3000      • The 5 Biggest Problems Faced by Couri...   #RoutePlanner​​ #CourierLife #DriveAndThrive