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I have a 3.5 ton transporter, previously had 7.5 ton slide beds. The long and short of it is you need a operators licence, CPC and tacho for any transporter / recovery truck / trailer combination over 3.5 ton train weight. If you have a CPC you will know this as its part of the course. Even a 4 x 4 with a car trailer needs all of the above if you are moving cars as part of your business activity. There are exceptions such as caravans and plant etc but the DVSA have long been all over this. Going back to the original question the viability depends on your stock mix. We have a 65 plate Crafter with a full alloy body, no spare wheel and stripped back as much as we could and that carries 1500kg with me in it. If you want to carry anything bigger than lets say a Golf / petrol 3 series then you run the risk of hitting problems. Fuel wise we get 30 mpg empty, 24 mpg loaded. If you are going to build one it might as well have a winch (just in case) that will need a LOLER certificate annually. If you move any cars with it for someone else you need to add hire and reward insurance, if you do recovery you will need to add that to your insurance plus goods in transit insurance for your own cars. It all ads up in cost. Build a good one though and it will really hold its value and you will never look back.

Don't think your mad, however this is a hard industry that is changing daily if I had my time again the car game is not where I would put my time effort and dollars. I also started off as a car nut now cars have turned me nuts.

FYI Absolute clarity..... http://www.lawgistics.co.uk/read-news/1395#sthash.VgJHOGCL.SU46ZVvU.dpbs Recovery of a vehicle under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 The Consumer Rights Act 2015 states “the trader must bear any reasonable costs of returning them, other than any costs incurred by the consumer in returning the goods in person to the place where the consumer took physical possession of them” therefore, if the vehicle is driveable then you can request that the consumer brings the vehicle back to your premises. But, if the vehicle cannot be driven then “reasonable costs” of recovering the vehicle should be incurred by yourself. This obviously can be costly. If you do not have repair facilities then it may be easier for both parties to have the vehicle diagnosed/repaired at a local VAT registered independent garage near them. However, If your sales invoice states it is the consumers responsibility to return the vehicle to the trader in the event they wish to exercise their statutory rights, this becomes an express clause of the agreement. Lawgistics Members can get advice on all consumer related issues from the legal team, we also sell a full range of stationery to help your business be legally compliant.

A/c !! That’s posh I have seen some recently with manual windows

I'd say with a Polo, it'd be more important to have an AUX input or Bluetooth.

It's a strange one. How do you negotiate with enthusiast owners who typically want retail ? Also, I don't know how he managed to scoop up so many delivery mile Focus RS (and last years special editions) when they were the hot ticket

More than likely is my guess, advertise on the RS owners webshite etc? Become known as the buyer to sell too with no hassles... ?? If the cars are straight, priced right can be win win

Any idea how RS Direct in Yate, Bristol manage to get their hands on so many privately owned RS stock ? Hoover up everything on owners forums ?

Its as clear cut as it needs to be really. Then any recovery done is offered and should be viewed as good will on our part if and when we choose to exercise that option.

LMFAO Stick around, you'll see far better digressions (and transgressions ) than my mediocre efforts, there are some guys here who are masters of the art My computer screen often gets coffee spat at it followed by side splitting laughter I agree, what I would do here is, (if after the inspection I was certain it had been sabotaged), I'd offer a refund, less 45 pence per mile covered, and less the cost of repairing whatever said sabotage came to !! If there was ensuing threats etc I would then tell the punter to "Go forth and do your worst". Just make sure you cover all the bases and scenarios !! Thankfully I don't get these sort of morons these days, one of the many reasons I upped sticks, sold up and moved to a remote area Yeah, over the years there is now a few that have infiltrated up here, but I choose not to do business with them, can sniff them out a mile off

That's what they told me when I shut my contract down - currently having my best month for 6 months already (2 today, 2 yesterday and enquiries coming out of my ears). You're too expensive - yes I am, reassuringly so.

This. Personally if I were in the OPs position I'd be working on my golf swing.

Saves me from creating a new thread.. I'm having issues with this new AT check as in a couple of my cars (which are all ex lease company vehicles) showing mileage discrepancies. To give an example on one, the discrepancy is from 117, 953 to 117, 638 in space of a month. I spoke to Experian who were of no help, said they needed some sort of proof ON THE EXACT DAY of that mileage input to take it off, which I didn't have as the car had not been serviced or MOT'd at that particular time. They promised to investigate it further but have now come back with the following and I quote 'I understand that this is flagging a discrepancy but the actual discrepancy showing is not big enough for us investigate and we would consider this as not a discrepancy' So basically they are saying it's not a discrepancy even though it is showing as a discrepancy but they cannot remove the discrepancy because it is not large enough to be classed as a discrepancy!! Meanwhile I now have a 9k car that is flagging up as MILEAGE DISCREPANCY, THIS COULD BE A SERIOUS ISSUE PLEASE CONTACT THE DEALER. Shame because the AT check itself is a good idea but the guys at Experian are clueless.

Few times and very good, people bid for your work with their best quote and you choose. AnyVan, GetVan and UShip also worth considering.