Great to point out when it goes wrong. As trade plate driver my self, I try to have a plan b or return ticket if it is not too much extra as this happens more often than I like. But I treat this job like a day out, a bit like you so it does not get me down too much

Some collection/delivery companies do not pay expenses & to get money out of them is like getting blood out of a stone, Everybody thinks collecting vehicles is easy, believe me it's not, Sometimes a vehicle could be in the middle of know-where & a would require a taxi ride costing a small fortune, there a far too many issues to write about it but I'm sure people who do this for a living or have done it know exactly what I mean.

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

We need to be careful who we choose to work for, and even then we need to be prepared for some difficult journeys!

@ocher8931

Ай бұрын

My father in law did this job and he had some absolute terrible journeys and issues getting paid for certain things.

@CheshireCars

Ай бұрын

Absolutely correct.

@jaybee1921

Ай бұрын

Hi, did you get a "Failed Job" payment? I did this job for 6 years working for V-Moves based in Warrington. It took me all over the UK and I went to places I would never have dreamt of going to normally...Fortunately there were more good days than bad ones. Take care out there, Jon B.

That's the great thing about your job, seeing places you wouldn't normally see. When I did property management, I'd travel to towns and cities where hardly anyone would go visit.

A shame you didn’t get to Sywell this time. It’s a great aerodrome and the café is great. Hopefully you’ll be able to visit in the future.

Lovely job.

Had a go at plating some years ago. Great in the summer but o so grim in the winter.

Hi Chris, new subscriber here. No need to apologise mate, not your fault all went wrong. I'm just sorry you had a wasted journey. Upside is, you and we got to see places we wouldn't normally see. Thanks for that, take care.

Chris another wet walk. Good job you spotted the scratches. Good video all the same 👍👍

Remember one of the gang picking up a Nissan note .. was meant to be picking up a quashqui... he didn't notice .. the showroom gave him a car that wasn't even meant to be being moved .. I noticed he'd got the wrong car .. had to send him back in to collect the right car .. working for bca at the time lol . All that jazz .. Great game tho loved trade plating it in a gang . Miss that and the planning..

Loved the jag xf over the weekend.. And the audi s6 .. for the weekend.. with a cursory visit to the safari parkbwith the kids lol 😆 😂😅

drove past sywell last week the main road to wellingborough was shut oh deep joy lol

Hi Chris great video a wild goose chase but that’s part of the job isn’t it doesn’t always go to plan at least you got paid

Did you not see the issues in pictures or a video of the car before traveling all the way I would have thought that was the first thing to do

Interesting video, many thanks for filming your journey. My 'cursed' destination is Pembrokeshire.... I've had 2 aborted jobs that were destined to go to the same place! I love being able to have a browse around new places before I catch the train home....

I am from Leicester and it has been a family standing joke for decades that Market Harborough is really in Northamptonshire but ended up in Leicestershire by mistake. This was because the Leics / Northants county boundary does a few contortions around there. More recently, Market Harborough has become something of a London commuter town and we don't want that sort of place in Leicestershire!

I think that K-X St Pancras is 2 stops from Warren St on the Victoria Line via Euston.

My home town Mkt Harborough, although I now live up the road in Corby.

@wheelerdealer7098

Ай бұрын

Is corby still a dump? Used to live at thrapston 30yrs ago

@shanedavis9166

Ай бұрын

@@wheelerdealer7098 A car dump, yeh, literally thousands of used cars, including on the old speedway site. As for the rest, it's not so bad now tbh, there's far worse places, and we've upwards of 11k new houses as well.

Thanks for a great video. Shout-out to @autoshenanigans who reported from outside the Old Grammar School in Market Harborough too!

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

I love Jon's channel, he's one of the people who inspired me to start making my own videos.

So frustrating having made that journey, and also the fact that there was a potential Plan B that couldn't be fulfilled, just to come back empty handed. Hopefully you managed to partake in a bottle or 2 of Wherry when you got home. 🍺

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

We need to buy something from Norfolk so I can get some more!

@markredman5032

Ай бұрын

@@tradeplatetravels Chris, I think Sainsburys are doing 4 bottles for £7 if you can't wait that long 😃

My first vehicle moved as a trade plater was, as you might expect, a disaster where I did more learning than earning! I hitched from Hoylake, Wirral to Warrington to pick up a brand new road sweeper, which I took to Bolton Council. It was a miserable March day, I was cold and wet, I had no clue where to wait for a ride, but I did learn quickly! I managed to get a ride with a trucker and made my next mistake, I didn't check out where in Warrington so I ended up in Warrington miles from where I needed to be. My next mistake was not knowing Warrington Birchwood was a new town layout, with roads that didn't have pavements and pathways that had signs to the various districts that only a local would know. I had a long walk around the road network that was typical of a new town, and I used the road signs as my guide. I drove to Bolton without incident, found the council depot, crossing over a railway line on the way in. On my return journey back home I started to walk across the railway bridge and thought "bollocks to this" and walked back to the railway station and caught a train to Liverpool, then Merseyrail to Hoylake. The train fare used up most of what I earned that day. I lasted only a few months doing this, and even though I'd learned a lot I didn't fancy doing it in the winter and I wasn't at all happy with how little I took home for the amount of work I did!

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

Great to hear other people's experiences, although I'm sorry that trip didn't work out!

@dannyboy1066

17 күн бұрын

What do you do now Sarge. I’m from the Wirral and really want a driving job. Not an amazon driver, Uber etc something with a bit of adventure.

Much easier changing at Oxford circus if travelling between Waterloo and kxsp

@alexmcwhirter6611

Ай бұрын

Yes and I was just about to make the same comment. It's easier to take Bakerloo Line Waterloo-Oxford Circus where there's an easy cross-platform change to Victoria Line.

@cmartin_ok

Ай бұрын

​@@alexmcwhirter6611 I believe Oxford Circus is the recommended changing point if you have luggage, pushchair etc

@alexmcwhirter6611

Ай бұрын

​@@cmartin_okOf course. I mean it's a simple cross-platform interchange on the level (no stairs, no walking through long passageways etc).

I'm glad our UK trains, stations and nice places like Market Harborough haven't been Graffiti 'd Yet. Unlike some other Countries.

@Demun1649

Ай бұрын

London Underground is in YOUR UK, and that is always heavily splashed with spray paint. As is Docklands LR. By "trains" are you excluding Freight?

I thought of something interesting (to me) that you could do in these videos. I know you already use maps to show where you're going, but when you're at a point of interest, like that bridge at the start, or anything else interesting you find, why not show a map of the exact location (so others can look for it when in the area). (haven't watched all your vids, so maybe you already do this)

@LukaFontain

Ай бұрын

Well, I'm now at 6:17 in the video, and you've just done the above 😅 I am a melon

Just found your channel and am enjoying it. I am semi-retired and am thinking about getting into trade plate work part-time. Can I ask, when you have a day like this with no pickups, do you still get paid or will you just get your expenses?

@-chris1965

Ай бұрын

I would like to think he gets paid both.

@sc99

Ай бұрын

Depends company to company; most if you go to a vehicle and don't end up collecting (Engine light, defects, illegal to drive, not there) you get an abort fee - usually the full job price. BUT you would need to follow procedure - phone day before collection etc. As for expenses, not all companies pay your expenses either, some pay some, others pay all and some its discretionary. I belive this guy works for one garage only, and is paid hourly - not by job which is rare for self employed roles.

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

I'm glad you're enjoying my videos! I am lucky because I get an hourly rate and all travel expenses refunded, so I do still get paid a similar amount if we don't buy the vehicle. Other places will pay you by miles driven, which is not so good because with any delays on trains, traffic jams, missed connections and so on, your pay stays the same despite much longer hours. I can see that sc99 has mentioned an "abort fee", which I personally don't know details about, but I'd certainly hope it exists otherwise a non-paid journey would be extremely unfair on the driver.

@richardpiper4828

Ай бұрын

⁠@@tradeplatetravelsHi, I’m enjoying your videos. I too am a part-time trade plate driver working for a small used car dealer specialising in EVs. Like you I am collecting and handing over vehicles to private individuals but in the main collecting from auction sites. I enjoy the work as it takes me all around the country to places I would never have ventured to. When you are buying and selling more specialist cars and vans you have a wider geographic area to cover. Best trip was delivering a car to a customer in Jersey which gave me the opportunity to have a short break.

@richardpiper4828

Ай бұрын

If you are working for an individual dealer (my preference) then the remuneration is I guess a matter of negotiation. I am paid on a mileage rate as I want the freedom to plan my journey times. The company does however meet all my expenses by issuing me a company debit card. I agree my travel plans in advance as start time and route will impact on the cost of train fare. There will be a trade off between flexibility, hours you are prepared to commit to and what you wish to earn.

You dodged a bullet not going to Northampton from Market Harborough, its a 2 1/2 hour trip with 3 or 4 changes by train. A bit of a shocker as its 17 miles by car. Also if you are up this way it's also worth checking out The Carpetbaggers Museum at Harrington NN6 9PF an old SOE station dropping stuff behind enemy lines

@josephocallaghan3000

Ай бұрын

amen

@tradeplatetravels

Ай бұрын

Yes I can't believe that train journey, although I think there's a direct bus that would get there faster.

@lordbungle6235

Ай бұрын

@@tradeplatetravels Yes its around an hour faster by bus (buses)

im looking to do this but only looking for 1-2 days a week - is everything just full time or do companies look for someone reliable at short notice?

@tradeplatetravels

26 күн бұрын

You should be able to find part-time work - and yes you're on the right track when you talk about reliability and short notice!

Seems quite a responsible job, your not just a driver your also a purchaser as well, driving and riding on trains etc is only part of the job. So I’m assuming your company buy cars through you and then supply these to an end sales garage or private/company end user. So obviously your company have to have a lot of faith in your judgement of the vehicle being purchased, a fair bit of responsibility. I use to do vehicle collection and delivery work, the vehicles were almost always brand new or nearly new and purchased by the sales garage or end user beforehand so there were no decisions made by me wether to purchase or not, I had to check it, talc photos, deliver on a truck to the customers address. I liked the job just not the hours 5 days a week, you don’t have a life.

The church I was married in .

If Carlsberg did pointless journies...

Don’t they ask for detailed photos and description before arranging collection?