Courier Business

[skimmy]

A couple of years ago I had a friend who's father owned a courier business. He basically sub-contracted the work from a much larger courier company. He owned about 30 trucks and made some pretty reasonable money. The trucks obviously were branded with the parent company's logo and colors, furthermore then employees all wore the parent company's uniform. What I'm asking is how would you go about getting into this type of a business? I have some money saved which could be used as a down-payment on a couple of trucks and I'm sure I could find a couple of friends/acquaintances looking for work. Do you think I should just find a bunch of courier companies in my area and inquire as to whether they are looking for sub-contractors?

[matt_15]

I dont know anything about getting into a courier business. Couldnt you ring around? get some numbers of smaller courier businesses to get some information. If you stress it to them that you wont be in direct competition with them, then they will be happy to help you.

[skimmy]

I'm not trying to actually start my own courier business, but rather sub-contract work from another one.