Delivery van journeys becoming more resourceful

• Feb. 11 by Natalie Adcock (0)

The delivery van industry in Birmingham and across the countery is becoming more eco-friendly with a system that uses their return journeys home, normally done with an empty load, to deliver more goods.

This company Anyvan was created by Angus Elphinstone and Ben Goor, who say that it was a result of the frustration they felt from travelling back from deliveries with nothing in their vans when they were running a London based white van delivery surface.

They wish to reduce the CO2 emissions caused by delivery companies and the amount of vans on the road.

Anyvan claims that 24% of vans in the UK are traveling totally empty and 50% are traveling only half full. 

The website works as a delivery quote comparison website, where residents list an item and destination, such as a ‘kitchen sink from Birmingham to Oxford’ and then companies who are already making the journey from Oxford to Birmingham bid to bring down the price and secure the customer.

Angus said: “We can’t completely reduce the figure of unnecessary carbon emissions produced each year but we aim to play a small part. 

To date, we have saved 48,029 miles due to all the completed jobs being undertaking by vans already traveling in the same direction; this is the equivalent to traveling around the world twice!

We have already seen quite a lot of work coming from the Birmingham area, but I think that Birmingham residents could benefit the environment by using us more!”