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Title: Who has the most vans on the road?
Post by: Mick Kent on November 04, 2016, 04:15:34 pm
  ;D
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Post by: Don Kee on November 04, 2016, 04:29:57 pm
I tow a trailer with my bicycle, 1000litre IBC in the trailer
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Post by: Dave Willis on November 04, 2016, 04:59:20 pm
Royal Mail perhaps?
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Post by: AuRavelling79 on November 04, 2016, 05:02:39 pm
Royal Mail perhaps?

Ford?
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Post by: sunshine windows on November 04, 2016, 05:16:10 pm
Soupy looks like he's doing alright
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Post by: 8weekly on November 04, 2016, 05:17:15 pm
Soupy looks like he's doing alright
He hasn't got any vans.  ;D
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Post by: Richard Stevenson on November 04, 2016, 05:20:33 pm
X line have about 8, i beleive.
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Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on November 04, 2016, 05:47:20 pm
guy here called tlc as 12
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Post by: nathankaye on November 04, 2016, 06:01:04 pm
Lee ??
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Post by: CleanClear on November 04, 2016, 06:52:05 pm
I reckon its the most National Company that  not many have even heard of...   "Greig Avinou" .
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Post by: G Griffin on November 04, 2016, 09:37:44 pm
Can you have less than zero vans on the road?
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Post by: Tosh on November 04, 2016, 09:48:44 pm
Theoretically it is possible, however it is also highly unlikely, no-one is sure if this has ever been achieved, by anyone alive or dead in todays world.

It is believed that someone once tried to create this seemingly impossible task but with little success. We would surely know if they had managed it for a prolonged and sustained period of time. There certainly is no film footage of it ever having been achieved and no one has ever come forward to claim they have managed to maintain a full fleet of none or even more astounding less  than no working vehicles - at the same time. We feel sure if this was ever accomplished it would be documented in the Guniness Book of World Records and that someone somewhere would have a very very small fuel bill to continue to run such a noteworthy fleet of vehicles on todays roads.
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Post by: Smurf on November 04, 2016, 09:58:38 pm
Can you have less than zero vans on the road?

Many do as they either walk, use a bike/trailer setup, car or some kind of 4x4  :P
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Post by: G Griffin on November 04, 2016, 10:01:14 pm
But you can zero vans on the road and there are numbers smaller than zero (but not fractions, that's daft), so why can't you have a minus figure of vans on the road?
Zero is not the smallestest number in wide whole world.
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Post by: Smurf on November 04, 2016, 10:04:41 pm
Oh dear god here we go again  ;D
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Post by: G Griffin on November 04, 2016, 10:07:23 pm
Can you have less than zero vans on the road?

Many do as they either walk, use a bike/trailer setup, car or some kind of 4x4  :P
Sorry, Smurf, but you can't say 'either' and then follow it two or more alternatives.
It's either or.
But on the number of vans on the scale what reading would someone using a car register? Zero?
And how do you get lower than zero? Would a bike set up be viewed as -1 vans on the road?
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Post by: cgh window cleaning on November 04, 2016, 10:12:29 pm
Thornton tasker from Nationwide window cleaning has over 100 vans out on the road in terms of window cleaning there aren't many bigger.
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Post by: capn sparkle on November 04, 2016, 10:31:15 pm
Theoretically it is possible, however it is also highly unlikely, no-one is sure if this has ever been achieved, by anyone alive or dead in todays world.

It is believed that someone once tried to create this seemingly impossible task but with little success. We would surely know if they had managed it for a prolonged and sustained period of time. There certainly is no film footage of it ever having been achieved and no one has ever come forward to claim they have managed to maintain a full fleet of none or even more astounding less  than no working vehicles - at the same time. We feel sure if this was ever accomplished it would be documented in the Guniness Book of World Records and that someone somewhere would have a very very small fuel bill to continue to run such a noteworthy fleet of vehicles on todays roads.

Pffff! With New Improved Vision anything is possible - In development  'apparently, according to my mate Trigger' there is now a  new but still unreleased minus minus Zero option which makes water lighter. GVW is a thing of the past.

 
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Post by: SeanK on November 04, 2016, 10:34:25 pm
I know somebody who woke up minus a car when it had been taken during the night, does that count.
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Post by: Smurf on November 04, 2016, 10:43:26 pm
Thornton tasker from Nationwide window cleaning has over 100 vans out on the road in terms of window cleaning there aren't many bigger.

Indeed....This makes interesting reading as I don't know of any other widow cleaner geting a mentiomed in the finacial times  ::)roll  http://nwc-group.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/FTArticle21.10.16.pdf
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Post by: G Griffin on November 04, 2016, 10:43:41 pm
I know somebody who woke up minus a car when it had been taken during the night, does that count.
So if he/she is -1 car (which I agree with) and they get their car back (or they become +1 car) then it's -1+1?
Which is zero.
So even though they get their car back, they are still on zero cars.
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Post by: SeanK on November 04, 2016, 10:51:11 pm
I know somebody who woke up minus a car when it had been taken during the night, does that count.
So if he/she is -1 car (which I agree with) and they get their car back (or they become +1 car) then it's -1+1?
Which is zero.
So even though they get their car back, they are still on zero cars.

Typical, you cant win with insurance companies.
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Post by: G Griffin on November 04, 2016, 11:02:02 pm
I know somebody who woke up minus a car when it had been taken during the night, does that count.
So if he/she is -1 car (which I agree with) and they get their car back (or they become +1 car) then it's -1+1?
Which is zero.
So even though they get their car back, they are still on zero cars.

Typical, you cant win with insurance companies.
I bet you wouldn't say that to Winston Wolf.
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Post by: Lee Pryor on November 05, 2016, 02:28:50 pm
We have 11
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Post by: Shrek on November 05, 2016, 04:32:54 pm
I reckon its the most National Company that  not many have even heard of...   "Greig Avinou" .

I made an enquiry to Royal Mail about getting a local contract . I got a response back saying they are looking for one company that can clean all their buildings throughout the uk and Northern Ireland .
Greig avinou won the contract
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Post by: p1w1 on November 05, 2016, 05:43:02 pm
i have 5.. different 1 for every day of the week as i like a change  :D
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Post by: cgh window cleaning on November 05, 2016, 06:12:09 pm
I reckon its the most National Company that  not many have even heard of...   "Greig Avinou" .

I made an enquiry to Royal Mail about getting a local contract . I got a response back saying they are looking for one company that can clean all their buildings throughout the uk and Northern Ireland .
Greig avinou won the contract

Greig avinou are a big company and very well known in Scotland and the North but not so much down South were they do still have a lot of work but use subbies to cover it.
I do a little bit for them.
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Post by: Soupy on November 05, 2016, 06:45:38 pm
Soupy looks like he's doing alright

Lol, I ain't even top 5 locally.
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Post by: JSMC on November 06, 2016, 07:17:40 am
The article from the FT is interesting. Last bit where they acquire loads of work basically from sole traders. Big nationals have screwed over loads of local guys up in scotland. Ye can bet these guys aint licensed for every area they work in.
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Post by: Tom-01 on November 06, 2016, 02:45:30 pm
A mate of mine lost a lot of local contracts a few years ago - he says apparently they are still being cleaned but he said the state of them looks like they aren't at all.
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Post by: TLC on November 08, 2016, 11:37:41 am
guy here called tlc as 12

19 actually 😉
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Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on November 08, 2016, 04:01:58 pm
guy here called tlc as 12

19 actually 😉
lol sorry only even seen the 12 ,  ;D fair play to you , we just have four