[Graham]

The car box has remained at the DHL Depot today at Runcorn, although the DHL customer services department still don't know that its actually there... but I do.

So my expectation is that they will transfer the cars on Monday to the local Depot nearest to the the host, and then deliver them on Monday.

Which all means that the scheduled run over the weekend will not be able to take place. However I been able to keep Phil F at Wye Valley advised and he is looking at running it later next week if he can.

I’m sorry, but this type of stress is not needed.  Graham, you fixed the issue with the tracking device.  Genius BTW and Kevan is using a different shipping company… give it time not stress, this is why I’m down to 1 entry going forward, the stress. Keep us informed yes, holy smokes. On a side note, the one car will be better prepared so Kevan can take a break from maintenance.

The tracking device told me that actually both the shipping companies DPD & DHL use the same sub contactor (Manx Indep Carriers) to send the cars to and from the Island, so in fact it seems there is no escaping that    So I guess the cargo ship is run exclusively by them, some kind of local Mafia arrangement.
But I do see that DHL are working better to manage the movement, even if the stated delivery time is somewhat more variable as a result of having to use the intermediary company. And I did get a little compensation from DHL for the delay.

However we have spread out the Rounds for this proxy, which gives us some scope for keeping the schedule on track, even if we miss the target date by a few days.