Speed Couriers, the national sameday courier

The Speed Couriers franchisee group, the national network of independent same day courier firms operating under the Speed Couriers brand name, have joined forces with MTvan.com.

The franchisees will benefit from the administrative services offered by MTvan.com, including enhanced cashflow services, and from the strong nationwide courier coverage of MTvan.com's courier membership.

MTvan.com will benefit from the input of courier transactions from the independent control rooms around the UK.

MNI Group, based in Barnet, North London, have announced that their national same day delivery requirements will now be handled by Speed Couriers.

If you have medical samples to deliver, please call Tony on 0845 6012418 (local rate call).

Same day courier Daytrak, a division of Amtrak Express Parcels, have increased the number of courier transactions being handled by MTvan.com. Sales Director at Amtrak, Jerry Kane, commented: "We are very happy with the way things are going, and hope to increase the amount of work we put through MTvan.com in the near future".

Tim Gilbert, founder of MTvan.com noted: "We are very pleased with this upward trend. The whole MTvan.com concept is designed around the needs of national companies like Daytrak, who have quality courier work, for premium customers around the UK, and who are looking for a really efficient and profitable way of covering it".

Servisair have announced that KLM baggage will now be routed through Speed Couriers at selected airports throughout the UK, bringing welcome extra traffic to our couriers operating 24/7.

If you have airline baggage to deliver, please call Tony on 0845 6012418 (local rate call).

Long term Speed customer Bosch Rexroth have added more sites around the UK to those already being serviced by Speed.

Rexroth services its customers in all facets of hydraulic, pneumatic, electric and mechanical drive technology for industrial and factory automation as well as mobile applications. Speed Couriers will be operating in support of service engineers.

"We were especially pleased to win this extra work, as we were up against some of the other big names in the same day industry" noted Tim Gilbert, who concluded the deal.

General Motors (Europe) have agreed terms with Speed for the collection of urgent components from factories throughout France.

"With 15% of our couriers operating in EU countries in any one week, Speed is ideally placed to bring these components back to Luton at the drop of a hat, and at very sensible prices" comments Alan Thomas, Speed's international controller. "An increasing amount of same day courier work is now cross border".

Partco, part of the Unipart Group of Companies, have placed an increase in collections from locations throughout the UK with Speed Couriers.

"We have been doing just a fraction of this Box Clever work for Partco up to now" comments Tony Burdon, operations manager at Speed Couriers, "and we're all very pleased that they have decided to trust us with the whole lot from now on. It's just our kind of work - timed collections of delicate equipment by van, from locations throughout the UK. And it's all booked on-line, which helps everyone involved to be able to keep an eye on what's going on".

Daytrak sign up with MTvan.com to source top quality couriers throughout the UK.

Daytrak, the same day courier arm of Amtrak Express Parcels, have signed up with MTvan.com to source top quality couriers throughout the UK.

"This is a partnership of two premium trusted brands in the same day courier arena", comments Tim Gilbert, founder of MTvan.com, "and we are very pleased to welcome them to the website. With our system of approvals, and our 1500+ courier members, they can be sure of sourcing couriers throughout the UK without putting their brand name at risk, to serve their nationwide customerbase.

You can book a courier on-line from this website, or just call 01480 377204 if you prefer to speak to a human being when booking a courier.

Maintel sign up with Speed Couriers, to "book and forget" their nationwide courier requirement.

Tony Burdon, Speed's operations manager comments: "Maintel tell us that they have a straightforward same day courier requirement, collecting in London, and delivering throughout the UK. They tell us that all they want is to be able to book on-line, and then forget all about it. They want to be able to rely on their courier to collect promptly and deliver quickly to their waiting engineers, with Proof of Delivery on-line in case of query. We have offered them a simple solution to solve their problem, and I'm pleased to say they are booking on-line with us regularly now".

You can book a courier on-line from this website, or just call 01480 377204 if you prefer to speak to a human being (Alan) when booking a courier.

If you want to join this success story as one of our approved couriers, register now on www.MTvan.com

Here is the text of a letter we were pleased to receive from Mr D K D, who lives in Hyde, Cheshire SK14, dated 14th September 2003:

Dear Mr Howell

I am writing in praise of a member of your staff Holly Powell.

On returning from a holiday in Paphos, Cyprus on 23rd August, one of our cases and a friend's case were unfortunately sent to Gatwick instead of Manchester.

It took almost a week to get the cases back. If it hadn't been for Holly pushing Gatwick to sort out the paper work and get our cases released, it would certainly have taken us a lot longer to get our cases back.

She is a credit to your company and a perfect example of what customer service is all about.

Yours faithfully

D K D

Continuing the extraordinary success of the MTvan.com website, 1000 couriers have now signed up. These members range from individual white van man operators to some of the biggest names in the industry with hundreds of their own couriers on the road. This huge membership gives MTvan and its members truly national reach in all same day courier operations. "Our customers know that whatever they ask us to do, thanks to MTvan we have couriers available in the area" comments Tim Gilbert, Speed's Chairman. "We manage all these relationships for the benefit of our customers, to allow our customers access to 100's of couriers, with one easy on-line relationship".

Or just call 01480 377204 if you prefer to speak to a human being when booking a courier.

Speed's partner website www.MTvan.com continues to take the industry by storm, having attracted its 500th courier member since November 2002.

"It's nothing short of the first serious change of model for this industry since it began in the 1970's" comments Tim Gilbert, who heads the management team responsible for Speed Services plc in Welshpool, and for MTvan.com. "It's like E-Bay for courier work. Our customers love it because it reduces the cost in time and effort of managing their courier requirement. We call it '100's of couriers, one on-line relationship'. The couriers love it because it's a simple source of courier work, and because we pay them quickly".

28th February 2003

St Ives-based Money Laundering Consultants sign up with Speed Couriers.

Operating from our headquarters Control Room in St Ives Cambridgeshire, Manager Alan Thomas has signed up a flourishing St Ives-based consultancy as a "sameday courier" customer.

MHA Consulting is a UK company specialising in the areas of money laundering compliance and training, internal audit and corporate governance - all areas in which MHA consultants have had practical “hands on” experience over many years.

MHA Consulting was established in 1993 by Michael Hyland in anticipation of the impact of the UK Criminal Justice Act 1993 (CJA) and the Money Laundering Regulations 1993. The CJA 1993 extended the UK’s money laundering legislation to “All Crimes” and the Regulations imposed obligations on financial sector firms to put in place policies and procedures to guard against money laundering and to train staff.

Alan comments: "The beautiful riverside town of St Ives is attracting many new knowledge-based businesses, and Speed is ideally placed to serve their courier needs. People would much rather order a courier than sit unprofitably in the A14 traffic!".

Speed's telephone number at St Ives is 01480 377211.

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Vision Express chooses Speed Couriers Nottingham to deliver quality eyewear.

Sam Sanghera, Franchise Principal, was delighted when Vision Express opened an account in December.

“They’re just down the road from us, which always helps, but they’re really looking for a quality service at a sensible price. We really look after them”.

Vision Express already have over 190 optical superstores throughout the UK, all of which are equipped with superb state-of-the-art equipment.

Vision Express is committed to providing its customers with the best eyewear solution tailored to their individual needs. Innovative products, outstanding prices and exceptional service are the reasons why so many people trust Vision Express to take care of their eyes.

"Speed signs up Capital Structures in latest batch of sales successes"

Capital Structures Limited (CSL) is a specialist company offering a comprehensive service in the design, fabrication and erection of structural steelwork and associated metalwork packages.

"Speed will be working closely with Capital Structures to maintain their high reputation for quality and speed of response" commented Alan Thomas, Speed Couriers' Operations Manager in Cambridge.

"And I'm especially pleased that they've signed up to use us as they're a demanding customer who chose us over and above all the local and national competition. I think the fact that they can look up the POD information in real time on MTvan.com was important in their decision".

"CSL are one 23 new customers who started using Speed in October 2002." added Tim Gilbert of Speed Couriers. "Proof if it's needed of the value of our same-day offering even in today's very cost-conscious environment. Quality still counts, and the price has to be sensible for both supplier and customer".

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