up until 2 weeks ago worked self employed for Home Delivery Network, formally Reality and White Arrow, was on £1 per parcel, on a bad day would do 150 a day, when busy can be 250-300 so money was great, fuel cost approx £100 a week, so was raking it in, then 6 months back they dropped rate to 80p parcel with 2 days notice and work slowed right down to less than 150 parcels a day, so money dropped right off, then 2 weeks ago go sacked because I wrote "BT Please sort this out" into the scanner as had trouble delivering a BT parcel to a shop, they said this was "Ruining the companys Reputation" and that was it, gone, to be honest, they were having to pay employed drivers 10 hours money to do 6-7 hours work, so think it was just an excuse to get rid of us as we was one of only 2 owner drivers in the depot.

Now currently struggling for work, signed up on transport company last week, had 3 days work out of 9 days so far at just £120 per day, a bit worrying, but good to be self employed when its all going well and your in with a good company