AMTRAK LICENCE REVOKED

[DOVEScot]

Just heard that Amtrak had their licenced revoked 3 MONTHS ago for carrying livestock :-/

[blackswan]

after what we have been hearing about them lately sounds good to me.and the white mice are just fine.

[DOVEScot]

after what we have been hearing about them lately sounds good to me.and the white mice are just fine.

 

Glad you got them before it went bust ;D ;D ;D

[sapper756]

So where does that leave us Scots lads, if we get a bird reported down south, and the unions insist you have to send for it? is there any other carrier that deals with pigeons, from England, upto Scotland? :-/ Or if we wish to purchase birds from one of the many studs down south :-/ :K)

[DOVEScot]

So where does that leave us Scots lads, if we get a bird reported down south, and the unions insist you have to send for it? is there any other carrier that deals with pigeons, from England, upto Scotland? :-/ Or if we wish to purchase birds from one of the many studs down south :-/ :K)

 

STUFFED :(

[ch pied]

spds , have depot's in manchester and leed's , if you can get them that far by other mean's

[OLDYELLOW]

oops looks like Louella will have to have more costly away sales

[grizzle_hen]

So where does that leave us Scots lads, if we get a bird reported down south, and the unions insist you have to send for it? is there any other carrier that deals with pigeons, from England, upto Scotland? :-/ Or if we wish to purchase birds from one of the many studs down south :-/ :K)

 

Looks like a network of fanciers will need to be set up then, there are plenty of people on here from all over the country

[OLDYELLOW]

AMTRAK

 

We have been advised that Amtrak has gone into liquidation with effect 22 August.  We are currently making enquiries as to an alternative carrier.  Here are some other couriers that may be able to help .

 

Pigeon Courier Businesses

 

Pigeon Express:  E. HILL

   Mobile: 07912 977743

www.pigeonexpress.co.uk

info@pigeonexpress.co.uk

At present the service is only open to the South East

 

Phantom Flyer : Roger Hughes

01329 664436

077099 13131

phantomflyer@onetel.net

areas covered - Beds, Berks, Cheshire , Derbys, East Sussex, Dorset, Glos, Hants, Herefordshire, Herts, Leics, Northants, Oxon, Salop, Somerset, Staffs, Surrey, Warwicks, West Midlands, West Sussex, Wilts & Worcs

 

Brighton, Weymouth, Crewkerne, Burnley, Blackburn, Preston, Hereford, Monmouth, Shrewsbury, Wrexham, south Wales & inside the M25

 

AM Deliveries / Mike

Ellesmere Port

Cheshire

CH65 4LX

tel: 0151 355 1533

fax: 0151 355 1533

mob: 0775 2161 3399

 

J Cooper Logistics Ltd

 

National Coverage except North of Scotland but includes Ireland.

 

Tel 01352 735555 or 07709 123125

 

 

 

Catch the Pigeon - Andy Bridges (ex Amtrak)

 

01623 440075 or 07731 649964

 

Covering Newcastle to Cumbria, South East to Bristol over a period of a week

 

The company that has taken over Amtrak's orders will not move livestock.

 

Peter Bryant

[DOVEScot]

 

Looks like a network of fanciers will need to be set up then, there are plenty of people on here from all over the country

 

There is already a network of fanciers that do this to the best of their ability but it will never be able to cover all the country. You need a hub that can network all the deliveries to be carried out in one day from north/south/east/west the day you go over that time scale you are looking at maybe feeding and watering birds, holding lofts, health certificates and maybe even quarantine times and maybe much more :-/

[cemetary]

Amtrak had there licence revoked 3 months ago, they were still delivering pigeons though.  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

[grizzle_hen]

 

There is already a network of fanciers that do this to the best of their ability but it will never be able to cover all the country. You need a hub that can network all the deliveries to be carried out in one day from north/south/east/west the day you go over that time scale you are looking at maybe feeding and watering birds, holding lofts, health certificates and maybe even quarantine times and maybe much more :-/

 

Sounds like something that should be looked into if delivery companies can't deliver (as it were), maybe it could be linked with unions/clubs, but it'll obviously need alot of planning but you never know, maybe amtrak going bust is the push that fanciers need to do something about setting up a network

[cemetary]

Will just have to put the brakes on buying birds just now until something gets sorted for delivery up here in Scotland.

 

What else can we doo. ?

[DOVEScot]

Amtrak had there licence revoked 3 months ago, they were still delivering pigeons though.  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

 

I could not understand this either but it came from someone who deals with licences as I asked them for a list of couriers that can transport birds  :-/

[Chris Little]

Surely now SPDS will react and expand it's pigeon trade south of the border

[Guest strapper]

if the license was revoked 3 mths ago surely they would be breaking haulage rules and entitled to be fined for it.

also they had no insurance to cover the birds in transit.

 

[OLDYELLOW]

sue them lol they have gone bust so wouldnt get a jar of fart  gas out of them

[Guest]

We're stuffed in the SW too, the phantom flyer (or anybody else) doesn't come West Somerset, Devon or Cornwall

[DOVEScot]

Surely now SPDS will react and expand it's pigeon trade south of the border

 

Lets hope so but they will not expand just to get the pigeon business they would need the other parts of the courier business as well

 

Amtrak was a national parcel courier that supplimented their income by also transporting pigeons not the other way about, we need a national courier willing to take on the tranport licence to carry birds now that Amtrak has ceased :-/

[OLDYELLOW]

well i think the biggest problem will be stray returns , all unions should make all transporters carry a stray basket , i put my strays in a box with transporter driver and hes more than happy to help them on there way , as for buying birds well id make sure if i was buying i had visited loft and would be happy if not eager to bring any new pigeons to there new home ,

[Guest]

40,000 MEMBERS X£2 =£80,000 ONCE A YEAR TO DO IT OUR SELVES [HAS IT SUNK IN YET]

[Guest chrisss]

by the end of today the big studs will already have a back log,how long can they take that for,before they start to have to "reduce" the backlog,and what happens if the press gets hold of that,can you picture the headlines

[Guest shadow]

on approaching other parcel couriers they are not interested in applying for a livestock licence there are a few that advertise in cage bird mags but they want £ 50 per consignment

[Guest]

Will just have to put the brakes on buying birds just now until something gets sorted for delivery up here in Scotland.

 

What else can we doo. ?[/quote]

 

 

save money and put the strays in the bin.

 

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

So where does that leave us Scots lads, if we get a bird reported down south, and the unions insist you have to send for it? is there any other carrier that deals with pigeons, from England, upto Scotland? :-/ Or if we wish to purchase birds from one of the many studs down south :-/ :K)

 

wat bout us cornish