subject: Multiple Stops On A Single Shipment [print this page] When a company grows to a certain size they begin to logically start looking for ways to cut costs as they expand. Shipping is one common area for a company to start looking for ways to cut back. They might do this by combining several shipments into one instead of making individual deliveries to every one of their clients. For example, they might look for Miami courier services that would take a single pickup and then make several stops along a delivery route.
Usually when you want a multi-stop shipment, you are going to need to hire the entire vehicle from the courier company, or to be very patient as to your timeline when you require the deliveries to be completed. When you hire a vehicle on its own, though, you have complete control over its route and the stops that you want it to make. You can actually save money by hiring a single vehicle to be dedicated to your deliveries though instead of making those several individual deliveries as mentioned earlier.
Many feel that they wouldn't be able to afford the rates that their courier might charge for hiring a courier exclusively to make their deliveries. There are several ways that you can try and keep the costs down when doing this however. The first is by making sure that you consolidate as many deliveries into a small period of time as you can. This limits the number of hours or days you will have to pay for that dedicated courier.
The next step is to make sure that you hire a courier and a vehicle that is the right size for the deliveries that you need to make. Many fear that the costs are going to be so high on this type of delivery because they are going to have to hire an entire cargo or delivery van. Most couriers now have fleets with a wide range of vehicles, which can provide more economical options if you don't have a large enough shipment or combination of shipments to warrant hiring an entire delivery van.
Most couriers now have vehicles as small as compact cars. If you had just a half dozen deliveries though that you needed made on the same day, you would probably save by hiring that type of courier to make those deliveries just for you. You might only need to hire them for a portion of the day.
