I recently spoke to a few people about the problems being tackled here at findmycourier.com and after hearing some of the questions and feedback I thought it would be a perfect topic to write about.

Research by the department of transport over the last few years has shown us there is a great amount of waste produced by vehicles transporting goods from one place to another. In fact the research highlighted the worrying fact that up to 25% of these vehicles were travelling completely empty¹ or were on the empty return journey.

In a year that can add up to an unnecessary 4.7 million tonnes of co2² which is undoubtedly a huge waste and a huge problem. In addition to this waste, courier companies have to bear the additional expense this 25% of empty journeys costs.

Now the general perception I have found is that this is an inevitable loss as the transport industry is such an important service provider. However we believe that by using a service like findmycourier.com, these couriers companies can find more deliveries along a similar route to one they are already making; filling up empty space in vehicles and saving unnecessary journeys.

Visitors to findmycourier.com can list any items they have to deliver completely free, and our network of courier companies will give their best price to deliver the shipment, and when the courier is already making a similar journey the savings will be passed on!

In our current economic climate, and with costs soaring for courier companies across the UK, findmycourier.com allows them to keep their vehicles running full at all times, passes the savings on to the customer and reduced co2 wastage.

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1. Research by the department for transport from 2003 – 2007 http://bit.ly/5d2jE3
2. Research on emmissions by the department of transport showed the total emmissions from road freight in 2007 was 18,624,000 tonnes co2 http://bit.ly/5d2jE3

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