Car Van Transporter Delivery Business For Sale

Business description

This well-established company has been delivering and collecting vehicles for many years, specialising in Car & Van Transporter Delivery for vehicle rental and auction companies, together with main dealerships, delivering a vital link in the supply chain. The company has earned a reputation for its expertise in the industry, on-time deliveries, high safety standards, efficient, well-maintained vehicles, skilled experienced drivers and professional attitude. The business is licenced for 20 vehicles and is currently running between 7 - 8 very successfully.

All transporters have a full operators licence and have extensive goods in transit insurance and public liability insurance.

This full service enterprise maintains an extensive base of long standing, satisfied repeat accounts that appreciate prompt service and expert vehicle transportation. A highly regarded, well established firm such as this one doesn't come along every day!

This company is an ideal investment, with good profit margins and a recognised name in the industry. A constantly growing base of satisfied repeat accounts and clientele, as well as new referrals and customers have allowed this establishment to provide them a strong proven record of dependability and quality service.

Based close to the M25 and the M1, this business is ideally located and has good transport connections to motorway networks. The facility include hard standing leasehold yard of circa 1Acre, from which it serves a large number of customers, therefore revenues are not reliant on any single customer or contract. The business is small enough to offer a personalized service yet big enough to handle any job.

The company supply delivery solutions to many companies, the services include the following;


• Auction collection and delivery
• Customer collection and delivery
• Car rental collections and delivery
• Dealership transfers
• Single car transportation


Key Strengths:

The company strength is in its flexibility, being able to meet the demands of its clients. The Company prides itself on offering great services and offers cost effective, safe solutions for vehicle transportation. The vehicles are all fully equipped and drivers are experienced, courteous and careful.

The business has a good customer base established by reputation. This is mainly down to the prompt, reliable service that is offered, the excellent presentation of the sign written vehicles and having the expertise to understand the nature and dynamics of a business.


Customer Service:

The success of the Company is due to the infrastructure that supports the whole of the business operation. This business is big enough to provide customers with the support and speed of response they need without it costing the earth, yet small enough to deal on a personal and friendly footing.

Key Opportunities:

There are several outstanding avenues for growth, creating business and expanding by purchasing additional transporters and utilising all twenty licenses. The current vehicles run constantly and never have any lag time, clients constantly call in without any active marketing being undertaken. Additional marketing could undoubtedly increase the profits of the company.

There is more than enough demand to warrant such an endeavour. This growing market offers significant business opportunities; with a strong demand for existing services there is a capacity to increase the turnover and profitability. A new owner would contribute fresh ideas and energy to expand on this solid foundation.

Property information

Location:

Situated in the heart of the country and the motorway network, these prominently positioned leasehold premises comprise of a hard standing yard of circa 1 Acre, with a portacabin office facility and onsite fuel bunkers.

The site is well maintained and very secure with beamed alarms, steel palisade fencing and is also fully floodlit. Leasehold the rent is £24,000 per annum.

Other information

Competition / Market:

The business generates new business from trade awareness and the finest form of marketing, word of mouth recommendation. These methods are used to maintain strong customer rapport to get that important repeat business, valuing the customers and striving for the best in customer service and customer retention at minimal cost. The business has used limited advertising in the past, regarding their customers as the best advertisers, there are excellent opportunities to increase this and market the business more aggressively. The company does not have a web presence and there is no doubt that turnover and profits could increase using this additional medium.

Support & training:

The owner is happy to provide full business familiarisation, training and handover for a period of time to be negotiated prior to the sale

Reasons for selling:

Retirement

Trading hours:

24 hrs with no restrictions