Just adding that these vids are better than just the 'Rail Journey' ones . As a Lorry driver we are not allowed to, or even insured to give you a lift when your waving your plates on the side of the road ! Just like a 'Working' Michael Portillo !

I plated for BCA for about a year. It's an interesting job which gets you all over the place. I drove some nice cars and some really nasty sheds. My local train station is less than a minute walk from my house. Get yourself one of those fold-up umbrellas.

@Telecaster4959

Ай бұрын

I plated for BCA in the days where we had no sat nav nor mobile phones, and our collections would be in the dark on a cold December night in the rain

Loving your channel! Many thanks for taking the time to film, edit and publish these stories. I have rainwear in my rucksack now on every job I do, even if rain is not forecast. After getting drenched a few weeks back by unforecast rain and being soaked for most of the remainder of the day, not an experience I wish to repeat anytime soon! Current longest day for me was around 8am to 1am the next day, 2 jobs that day, the second job was picking up a car from sheerness docks, which ran out of fuel before I even made it to the main gate of the docks.

@tradeplatetravels

6 ай бұрын

I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

Brompton folding bike is something I would use. An electric one at that. stuff all that walking and time.

That was really interesting- and very stressful -to watch !

I hope they pay you for 18 hours and reimburse travel expenses. I retired last year, but looking for something to keep me occupied a day or two a week I looked at trade plate deliveries and was put off by the thought of public transport nightmares

@tradeplatetravels

7 ай бұрын

I quite like the challenge, but it's not for everyone. Yes I get paid more for longer days and all my travel expenses are reimbursed, I don't think I'd do it if they weren't!

@mikesmith5083

6 ай бұрын

Same concerns here. Great channel…railway is a real shambles!

We love it!

i hope you can make more vidoes like this. it is very interesting. quie a job to travel this way

Thanks very much for the video. I have just come across your channel and think that you have a really nice style of presentation and there's built-in variety. All the best!

@tradeplatetravels

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, that's really appreciated!

Next time you go from Waterloo to Kings Cross it’s quicker and easier to get the Bakerloo Line to Oxford Circus and Victoria Line from there

I do this this job t wise a week. That’s more than enough it can be a long day, and sometimes a wasted trip train there train back

Reminds me when I got stuck in Cardiff and had to make my way back home too Liverpool at 7:30pm, long night but I finally got a lift from a kind truck driver he was going all the way too Seaforth docks not far from my home so I was made up

When you do this type of work , you always phone ahead to see if the customer is A) going to be there. B) that the customer with the vehicle can meet you at the nearest station. C) that if there is any doubt as to the state of the vehicle (especially as its 2nd hand) that its able to be collected and D) work out your route the night before to ensure you can get there. As regards setting a record for collections the furthest distance away from home. Sorry !but not evem close! I had to get from my delivery in Aberdeen to Troon. Collect a car that wasnt available to collect despite speaking to the customer the day before to establish it was available to collect , to then go back to Glasgow to collect a car that then wasnt even back from the customer (who had it on loan) to then travel home by train back to Bicester to get my car to drive 50 miles home. I got home at 5am the next morning. And all for £10.50 per hour at that time.

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

Yes absolutely, I do all those things well in advance, although if there was that much doubt about the condition of the vehicle I don't think we'd go to see it anyway!

@Telecaster4959

Ай бұрын

@tradeplatetravels I'm sure you do ..I was highlighting it for others not you.... so apologies if that looked like I was suggesting you didn't... BCA were horrors for sending us to places that hadn't seen the car or we'd get there to find out it had already been collected by another driver. Or we would deliver a car to find out the customer was expecting his old car to be taken away but u had a collection to do 50 miles away and that affected your work for the rest of the day. Or we would turn up to collect a car that hadn't actually been delivered at all...(that was quote frequently happening) it was all good fun... but I loved it..yeah ! It was frustrating at times but you couldn't do anything about it so you learnt not to get upset ...you just did what you could.. The worst but (as you suggested) was getting home afterwards.

Watched several of these interesting especially Knucklass and Llanfairpg I call it been there before

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

I'm pleased you're enjoying them!

What do you use to plan your public transport routes?

I am from Huddersfield and have a friend who works for BCA and he has the same trouble, 300miles traveled and the car was picked up the week before.. very poor communication in the office

@tradeplatetravels

7 ай бұрын

Oh dear, that hasn't happened to me I'm glad to say!

@leewakefield8658

6 ай бұрын

I had a pickup 200 miles from home and when I got there the car had a bald tyre so I refused to drive it, thankfully the agency I worked for paid for both the job and the train to get back home.

@rumenruskov2849

6 ай бұрын

Hello, I like your video very much because it is very useful. I have a question. Because I’m thinking about to start the same job, so can you tell me weekly how much money is received? Thank you

I reckon you could find a folding bike useful

@tradeplatetravels

2 ай бұрын

I did think of that but I reckon it would be too heavy to lug around the rest of the day!

Rather you than me

Now thats a mugs game doing that job

Peak partridge

@tradeplatetravels

2 ай бұрын

Lovely stuff

be careful police are cracking down on trade plate drivers its illegal to have plates in window they must be put over the existing number plate now using the clips. great video's

@ianf7246

2 ай бұрын

According to DVLA Trade Plates must not cover the existing number plate

@andrewwilkinson8250

2 ай бұрын

Do you just randomly make shit up ?

Whats the money like per week

@Kian-op5io

3 ай бұрын

500

@marktaylor9678

2 ай бұрын

absolute crap

@Telecaster4959

Ай бұрын

Not enough