Having driven from Norwich to Barnard Castle and back on Saturday with my sons car on a trailer behind my 9-5 estate (no one faulty as other guy had a family member rushed into hospital whilst we were nearly there and then sadly passed away) we are now trying to organise to get the car delivered again - The car has no MOT and is SORN. I don't have the time to do it again so we searched the internet and found this business
http://www.anyvan.com/Basically you register FOC and provide them with details of the item you want delivered (in our case the car). You give them as much or as little information as necessary. We gave them a description and photo of the car (in particular noting the low front lip). They then put it out to the various courier/delivery companies registered with them and you wait for bids to come in. Within minutes some come through but they tell you to be patient and wait to see what happens.
You do not have to accept any of them or use any at all and it costs nothing.
The first quote came through about 45 mins after registration and was £240 which I thought was quite good considering the trailer cost me £82 and we used about £75 diesel. Slowly during the evening more and more e-mails came through and so far the lowest bid is £130 and they say they do not use trailers so car goes on back of a flat bed lorry. They all have to be insured etc and are rated like on eBay.
We've now given the chap up north the information to arrange it.
They seem to deal with anything and I noted someone had a set of wheel delivered some considerable distance for £30.
Thought it may be of use to someone.
