With an increasing number of users listing their home removal requests through Shiply, we believe the following tips will be useful to you.

1. List your request correctly

Since removal companies’ quotes are mainly based on the type of required service and inventory lists, getting these details right is very important.

After your shipment is listed, click on the link to go to your listing and check whether all details are correct, especially the inventory list.

If you have missed something, click on the link Edit Your Shipment to edit it straight away, as if you edit after a removal company has placed a bid, you will have to decline their bid first.

2. Keep contact

As home removals are rather a complex job, removal companies bidding for your work might need to ask you several questions. Every time they post a question, you will be notified via email so if you can, try to answer them as quickly as you can and the more information you provide to the removal company, the more accurate their quote will be.

3. Choosing the right removal company

Shiply has a very useful feedback system with comments left by previous customers for a transport provider. This is the first thing you need to look at when choosing a removal company.

Clicking on their name will take you to their profile page with a snapshot about their company, their feedback rating and feedback left by their customers.

While a company snapshot gives you a basic idea about the removal company, this information is subjective and needs to be verified should you want to.

A company with a high feedback score and feedback rating is often a sign of a reliable transport provider. Have a look through previous feedback they received, especially those from home removal shipment listings.

4. Agree on important details before bid acceptance

To make sure both yourself and the removal company are happy to proceed with a shipment, it is important that you discuss and agree with the removal company on the most relevant details such as date and time, location, removal type, vehicles used, manpower involved before accepting their bid.

5. Communicate and cooperate after bid acceptance

Once a bid is accepted, contact information will be exchanged between yourself and the removal company. They normally get in contact quickly but you can also contact them to facilitate the process.

Communication and cooperation between you and the removal company are the key factors to ensure a successful house move. A removal company normally has lots of experience with home removals, so feel free to ask them for any advice in preparing for your house move.

Alternatively, you can also have a look at our home removal guides here (under Articles section):

http://www.shiply.com/home-removal-firms/

This video, is absolutely shocking!

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This stunning video footage was taken by passengers in another car on the A1 near Wetherby, West Yorkshire.

How the Renault Clio came to be trapped under the bumper of this lorry, which belongs to Arclid Transport, a Cheshire based haulage company and why the driver didn’t spot it is still a mystery.

A spokesman for Arclid Transport said: “I’ve no idea if the video is genuine. We’re actually doing an internal investigation at the moment.”

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) warned that the 1st April fuel duty increase may lead to an estimated 20,000 job cuts and force hundreds of haulage companies to close down.

The AA said that unleaded fuel could soon increase to over £1.20 a litre even though the price of oil is just about half its peak level.

Angry motoring groups are urging Chancellor Alistair Darling to delay his planned 3p petrol duty hike, which translates to over £1,100 additional cost per year per vehicle for a haulage company, according to the RHA.

AA president Edmund King said: “We are barely out of recession, yet petrol prices threaten to rise to record prices seen during the boom of 2008 – shortly before the collapse into recession. If families, drivers on fixed incomes and those on low pay were unable to cope with record prices then, they are even less likely now.”

The fuel duty rise means many haulage companies will have to cut jobs

The RHA chief executive said: “The Chancellor is screwing our industry. Our members’ customers will simply not take any more price increase – we could end up losing work because of it.”

An industry watchdog predicted that even if the 3p increase was withdrawn, the price paid on average by drivers could soon hit £1.20 a litre which would be higher than the previous UK high of £1.19 of July 2008.

Iulian Breazu, 24, a Romanian lorry driver, became an internet sensation after the video clip of him dancing while driving driving his lorry with his feet was uploaded to youtube. His video clip has been watched by millions.

Iulian Breazu driving with his feet

After the video clip was uploaded, copies have been watched by traffic police throughout Europe and they have been trying to track him down.

Last week, finally, his license was taken by authorities in his native Romania – when he was caught driving at more than double the drink drive limit. Traffic police in Sibiu, Romania has confiscated his license for 90 days and ordered him to take a safety test before he could get it back. We are astonished that this is all he was punished, certainly here in the UK you would be looking at a lifetime ban and jail time.

One police officer said: “He has clearly had it coming and the road is a safer place without him on it.”

The driver, who worked for a local haulage company, horrified thousands of road users with his video clip of himself dancing around his truck cab.

For those who have not seen it yet, this is the video clip mentioned:

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We hope that none of the removal companies who use Shiply employ similar staff to these two!

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

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Lindsay Fox is probably one of the most famous truck drivers in the world, as he’s made a fortune being a trucker. Fox, 72, dropped out of school when he was 16 and started his trucker’s career.

Lindsay Fox is the 10th richest man in Austrlia

Now he’s worth $1.5 billion and ranks No. 10 amongst Australia’s 40 Richest Men. Fox’s company Linfox operates in different industries with Linfox Logistics being the biggest division with 5,000 truck drivers.

Last year, amid the global economic downturn, it was estimated that Linfox made about $100 million profit. Not only famous for building an empire from trucking jobs, Fox has also been running a safety campaign for several years to reduce haulage accidents.

Lindsay Fox also owns Melbourne’s second and third biggest airports and Armaguard, a cash-transport business with $3 billion revenue in 2009.

When being asked why he’s been so successful, Fox said: “It’s a people business. Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking, you can’t buy friendships.”

We bet you’ve seen Rally Car drivers drift many times as that’s what they do for a living.

Shiply were last night delighted to have achieved the runner up spot in this year’s Shell Springboard competition. Out of 6 national finalists and hundreds of entrants, Shiply came in second to HiMag Solutions who innovated a planar transformer which could dramatically increase energy efficiency in electrical devices across the world.

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If you wish to make use of this new feature, just follow these steps:

1) Log in
2) Navigate to your profile page
3) Click on the reply link to the feedback in question
4) Type out your reply

It’s as easy as that, your reply is there for all to see. It cannot be edited, so please be careful with what you write just as per normal feedback. It is always a better idea to take the higher ground and simply state the facts of a transaction than get down and dirty or make personal remarks. After all, this is your public profile and people pay a lot of attention to it, whether that is analysing whether to accept your bid or analysing whether to bid.

We hope you enjoy this new tool