Logistics Companies Dublin

Chico Flores

How is it going lads,

Have posted on this before but just wondering, is there an independent site where I can get info and testimonials on transport companies?

Everyone of course promises the world and the sun, and I am sure that they are telling the truth, but got let down last time and will lose customers if my service keeps failing like it has.

Peterdalkey

There is no such independent site that I have ever seen and who would pay for it in the first place!!

All the transport companies call themselves Logistics Specialists these days, so that does not help much. I would be looking for a "Fulfillment" company who are experts in handling, storing, controlling and dispatching along with general inventory management aspects. they will have bespoke specialised software and systems similar to those that a company would have if they were doing it for themselves.

mightybashful

Chico Flores wrote: »

How is it going lads,

Have posted on this before but just wondering, is there an independent site where I can get info and testimonials on transport companies?

Everyone of course promises the world and the sun, and I am sure that they are telling the truth, but got let down last time and will lose customers if my service keeps failing like it has.

What sort of transport are you looking? Domestic or international?

Chico Flores

Looking at domestic work mainly. Just a single UK Pallet here and there

highlandseoghan

I have a guy I use for all stuff I need around Dublin If its dublin based just let me know and i can send you his number. For around Ireland I normaly use Ireland. For Europe I use Anyvan.ie.

BarryM3

Hi Chico,

I own/run a delivery and logistics business in Dublin. Drop me a PM and I'll be happy to help if I can

neris

good few transport/warehouse companies around who can do collection and deliveries. Not sure where you are but In Dublin area you have DHL, TNT, Johnston, Prime Time, Independent Express Cargo

mightybashful

neris wrote: »

good few transport/warehouse companies around who can do collection and deliveries. Not sure where you are but In Dublin area you have DHL, TNT, Johnston, Prime Time, Independent Express Cargo

None of them are great for domestic work. I'd love to recommend the one we use but can't. They're not that great either

Peterdalkey

OP it might be an idea to post the detail of the service level you are after, otherwise you will only get general type responses. If you don't know what you want precisely, you are unlikely to trip across it on here!

Chico Flores

Fair point Peter...

We wouldnt have too many pallets per week. Max 4/5 to be honest, and anything to Dublin gets put in the back of the van and done ourselves.
Its mainly down Cork, Limerick, Galway etc, the big towns down the country.

On the above, I suppose its the fine line between price and service.
PRL and Johnston's are just around the corner from us. Found Johnstons better to talk to, but they were expensive to be fair and couldnt justify it.

On the flip side there are the Pallet Networks, but just feel my stuff is handled too much then??

Assuming Prime "Time" above are Prime Line, from googling. What are they like? Ah I know there are so many knocking about, Im just being a bit picky

mightybashful

Chico Flores wrote: »

Fair point Peter...

We wouldnt have too many pallets per week. Max 4/5 to be honest, and anything to Dublin gets put in the back of the van and done ourselves.
Its mainly down Cork, Limerick, Galway etc, the big towns down the country.

On the above, I suppose its the fine line between price and service.
PRL and Johnston's are just around the corner from us. Found Johnstons better to talk to, but they were expensive to be fair and couldnt justify it.

On the flip side there are the Pallet Networks, but just feel my stuff is handled too much then??

Assuming Prime "Time" above are Prime Line, from googling. What are they like? Ah I know there are so many knocking about, Im just being a bit picky

In a previous place we used Rory lynch transport for freight going over that direction from Dublin. Found them to be alright. Might suit as theyre based in Shannon so will be passing by you

BarryM3

In relation to handling of your products/pallets. All transport companies will handle it pretty much the same amount regardless of whether they are feeding into a pallet network type system or their own depots. Truck collects from you in Dublin, returns to local depot and unloads your pallet, pallet is then loaded onto 40' trailer and trunked from Dublin depot to satellite depot overnight, unloaded at satellite depot and reloaded onto truck which delivers to end user.

The only way to avoid this is to have someone going specially with each pallet, we do this for some customers who aren't price sensitive and are happy to pay the premium to know there will be no delays, damage or issue of any kind. I can't see this being for you.

As a middle ground you might find smaller companies who cover each area specifically and pass your door each day. It would be a bit of a nightmare though to keep on top of and with only 4/5 pallets a week between them you will struggle to get reliable service.

So to summarise you don't really have any option but to buy into the regular overnight, trunking, network type system. We use them ourselves for doing areas we don't cover and as said earlier I'm happy to provide you with a quote if it's of benefit. I'll let you make contact by PM if you want some input.

Peterdalkey

if you ship to the same customers all the time, it might be an idea to ask them who they use to deliver to Dublin and get your stuff on their backloads. If they are normally different addresses that wont work!!

BarryM3

Peter, while that logic seems sound, in reality, as far as domestic piece work is concerned backloads doesn't really exist. If you had a truckload arriving and you had a truckload to go back from where that truck originated, then maybe but not for small groupage deliveries.

Peterdalkey

I probably phrased it badly, I see lots of courier companies calling in here to do collections for outr customers around the country, they tend to specialise in one are Mayo-Dublin-Mayo , or Carlow-Dublin-Carlow etc. The tend to use mid-sized rigids rather than say Transit vans. We ourselves use JMC for non-parcel and palletised deliveries around the country.

BarryM3

OK - I see what you mean. These are the type companies I spoke about in this paragraph above

As a middle ground you might find smaller companies who cover each area specifically and pass your door each day. It would be a bit of a nightmare though to keep on top of and with only 4/5 pallets a week between them you will struggle to get reliable service.

They are a bit of a dying breed and while they will offer a more personal and better service trying to cover the entire country with a selection of them will be a lot more complicated and probably more expensive than using one provider. I don't like to see myself type that as my own company is a primarily a local service but that's the way the industry is going at the moment with most people struggling to see past prices!

Peterdalkey

It is an incedibly tough business, even worse than ours!!

Your points are well made and we moved to just 3 companies, 1 for exports, 1 for parcels and 1 for larger lots. At one point at 4.30-5.oc there was mayhem at out dispatch. they all pick up at different collection time window now... works better and is more efficient, (I wont mention tye pricing benefits!!)

BarryM3

Yes it's not much fun these days with large companies on one side and 'man with van' operations on the other. The gap in the middle for the small/medium family run concern is narrowing with each passing day.

Yes, collection time can be crazy when a system like yours (but without the various pick up times) is employed. We do mostly Dublin-Dublin multidrop work and collect first thing in the morning to allow our customers more time to accept orders and avoid the 5pm scramble to fill vans.

I would think you went down this road to avail of lower rates for each package type - each company is particularly strong in each area so you take the pick of each? It's a logical move on paper but I have seen it backfire when the various carriers realise that they are not getting any 'cream' so to speak and end up withdrawing their service as it's not viable.

Peterdalkey

We are doing it a long time now. If you have decent volumes/annual spend, the guys are very keen. No one company could do all our work efficiently... plallets and parcels don't mix well either!!

BarryM3

Pallets and parcels is a common separation - you won't have issues there so

I've seen companies have 3/4 carriers for just cartons alone.

• Courier 1 - Single Cartons Dublin
• Courier 2 - Multiples Dublin
• Courier 3 - Singles Nationwide
• Courier 4 - Multiples Nationwide

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