Hello everybody. I'm Peter the Courier Driver and this video is on the damage
the extreme multi-dropping can have on your vehicle. And by extreme multi-dropping,
I'm not talking about, you know, 810 drops a day. I'm talking about your Amazon and your Hermes mob.
A lot of you guys are out there. You're doing 100 and 250 stops a day. What damage it's going to
do to your van? Before we go on if you like this kind of video and there's plenty out there. Now if
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There's a few things that people are going to take as red that is going to damage your vehicle.
I mean the one that Springs to mind is going to be you start a motor because that's on and
off all the time, starting, stopping, that kind of thing. Also, some people complain about keys
with key snapping the ignition, your key snaps the ignition. It's a bigger deal because
it's no longer a matter of just putting the spare key in. You've got to call the guy out,
you've got to get the locksmith guy out, you've got to get the barrel change,
you've lost, you've got your goods on board. That's kind of a big deal. And also there's
other things keyed in with the electric. Like your solenoid and your valves and all that
kind of stuff. Normally on a multi-drop, you get about 100,000 miles out of a starter motor. On a
multi-drop, you're going to get 40,000 miles out of a start. Motors are not the end of the world.
They're going to stand you in at around about 200 to £500 depending on the motor
you've got. But when you're talking about 40,000 miles because it's motor dropping,
you could be on it for two years. So £2500 across two years isn't always big damage.
Other things that could affect you? Well, it's ways around it, to be honest with you.
So how do you get around it? So rather than stopping the engine all the time,
what you can do, you can leave the motor running. There's a few difficulties with this.
Firstly, there's a safety aspect. So if you're parked somewhere
where it's like a secluded driveway or there's no one around, not an issue.
If you're on a street and you're running up to put the parcels in, if there's someone following you,
you've got a van running open with quite a lot of goods in the back and there's an insurance aspect
as well. Will you be covered in insurance if they turn and say, well how did they get away with the
van and went, well, I left it running down the end of the street. There's also a fuel thing
which is if you're leaving the motor running all the time, is that better than starting and
stopping all the time? Well, the truth of the matter is in the old days we used to use a lot
more fuel to start the engine nowadays. Now we've got the lean-burn engines, they reckon 7 seconds.
If you leave your engine running for more than 7 seconds, then you're actually doing more fuel
than you would have done if you turn it off and then turn it on again. So for 7 seconds
is the thing. Also, there's start-stop technology. A lot of new vans have now
got the start-stop technology. So when you stop, it stops automatically for you guys.
Not a problem. Well done. You got in there and then of course, there's you mobbing the electric,
which again, some of the Amazon, the electric thing. Now, the question is, should you
consider maybe you think, well, maybe this is a way forward. Is this an electric vehicle?
Is it time I went and got one? I have to say electric vehicles are prohibitive.
You're going to be looking at probably, what, between 25 and £40,000 for a new van,
possibly the upper end of the 40 if it's electric.
And then you've got range anxiety, you've got the difficulty. Some of them will only do 50 miles.
Some of them say they do 100. If you start shipping all the time, you're probably better off
investing in a decent older van and then just paying to get it repaired whenever it needs
to get repaired, like kind of things. So that's your start-stop, that's your key and all that on
the ignition. The other thing is going to wear out the clutch. Now, you're not doing motorway miles.
So if you're on a motorway and you're going backwards and forwards,
it's in 6th, it's in fifth, it's just going this reduces the wear and tear
on a gearbox. This reduces the wear and tear on the clutch because you're not pumping the
pedal all the time. If you're going around town, you're eating that clutch all the time. That
is going to wear it out. On average, you're looking at about 500 to £1000 for the clutch.
But chances are when you whip the clutch out, you're going to want to change the flywheel
as well. If you're going to want to change the flywheel as well, then you're looking at
the best part of 1500 quid. Clutches are there, but a clutch should last you about 60,000 miles.
It can go at 30,000 miles. You can get 100,000 miles out of a clutch,
but you would have to be lucky to get 100,000 miles out of the clutch.
To be honest with you. Again, if you're going to be getting 60,000 miles out of it and you're
doing the multi-drop, Thomas, even more than a start, two, three years, it's going to cost you
1500 pounds in three years. It's not the end of the world, it's expensive. But then every job we
have comes with the cost, tax, insurance, wear and tear. These are all your costs.
The two things that people don't expect on a multi-drop are the things they don't take into
consideration. Number one is tires. Now, bear in mind that you're doing housing estates all
the time, you're on full lock all the time. That's going to wear the outside of your tires in quicker
and also the amount of times where you're going to curb a tire
because you're in like a house in a state, it's not very easy to park, you can't leave it in the
middle of the road. I'm just going to bump it up this curb because that does the tires in..=
You're scraping a curve because you're trying to get around that difficult angle because someone's
parked in a sloppy place. You scrape the curb, you do the tire warning and you want to be careful.
You want to cheque your tire walls, a cheque for sort of threads, a cheque for bits of chips that
come off the rubber cheque. The backs have a look at the back, make sure they're in a bulge
because you might be doing 40 damage or cabbage way. And with a bulge in the
back of a full load that goes bump into the central reservation, then you're in trouble.
So things you want to be aware of, you can save on the wear and tear
on tires by getting your tracking done properly. But the problem is
the next time you bump that up a curb, you're just going to knock the tracking back out again.
So it really is kind of six, one after the other one and the other one that's going to get you
is brakes because you start stopping all the time. Breaking braking, braking. Like I say,
when you're on the motorway, you've got a nice big gap in front of you.
You're doing 60. No brakes, no brakes. You can go
an entire motorway journey and if you're clever about it, you need the right gaps.
You hardly need to touch your brakes at all Roundtown junctions. Stop and stop and start.
And the closing the target, you'll stop starting all the time. That's going to do your brakes
in. I actually had a friend of a friend and I do actually still offer this deal because I checked
it, the QuickFit offer breaks for life. And he was doing like multi dropping, but he's in a car,
he was doing sort of credit cards and passports and all that kind of stuff,
all time-sensitive, all that to be signed for. So he went in and got a set of breaks for life.
The third time he went in, rather to get his full set of brakes. The fourth time,
when he gets full set of brakes, they went, okay, we'll do it this time.
No more, mate. He had gone through four sets of brakes in under 100,000 miles.
Now, that's just loopy because they don't guarantee the brakes for life for no reason.
So you got to bear in mind it's going to do your starter motor, it's going to do your clutch, it's
going to do your flywheel but those probably don't be changing every two for a year. Your tires and
your brakes is going to cost you. So what can you do to get around this? Well, there's not a lot you
can do. The only thing you can do is obviously be careful about when you turn the motor on and off.
Also, get yourself a decent monthly route planner. That way you won't be
doing unnecessary miles going to stop so you shouldn't have to go to get everything off
a lot quicker. It will save you time. It will save you money. That's why we recommend Circuit.
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