Hello All, Well Fastway ... We have been told today by our Franchisee, Jimmy Stewart covering the Baildon/Bradford area that he will only collect parcels that can be delivered locally and not to pass to him any parcels that are out of the Bradford/Leeds region. We too have lots of vouchers to use up. I will pursue this matter through the Courts to retrieve our out of pocket expenses if i have to. They have already lost 3 parcels and we have claims in for over £600
Anyone had any joy with serving court papers against this company as it looks as though we are heading this way, pretty quickly....

Many thanks for the above post, Fastway Couriers Yorkshire base in Shearings House, Tinsley S9 1XA, closed its doors 3pm Thursday 22nd September 2011, Reportedly still trading from their Leeds office we got no responce on either advertised number. I have just got back from the depot to collect my goods there is thousands of ponds of goods sat in the unit currently unclaimed not going anywhere. The owners have jumped ship and left us high and dry. There are some posatives as this company was not limited so the owner can not run and hide, I am in the process of finding out their details and will be processing a claim against them for the value of the unused tickets, and any undelivered goods. will update when we have more details

That's great thanks. Does anyone know the address of the Baildon/Bradford Franchisee, Jimmy or James Stewart and i will prepare an online summons to serve on his personally. I had a conversation with him today and he tells me he is working with XPD Couriers and basically told me to stop moaning as i wasn't the only one who had lost lots of money, all his customers had lost money - and he thought this would make me feel better !!! Joke !! He felt quite smug when he said all your cheques you made out to CF Admin and not my name, so you can't pursue me, its nothing to do with me, you need to take legal action against Amit who owns the Leeds Depot. I said, you've been paid commission on all the tickets you have sold and he said yes, i have but that is my money - can you believe the cheek of someone to admit this !! Anyone with any advice here, please let us all know. These guys in business should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.... it sounds to me as though they all knew what they were up to here.....

http://www.fastwaycouriers.co.uk/CFTimetablesPDF/8/timetable_wy_jimmy_st...

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Take a look at this link. This shows the fastway franchisees as 'being independently owned' this is something that i think everyone should put in their particulars of claim when preparing their summons to retrieve their losses. How can they say this was nothing to do with them personally and we should all sue the leeds depot or whichever depot when all the information, including sign writing on their van, says independently owned by the franchisee - they are just a joke.

I'm not giving up here and if anyone knows where the Bradford Baildon Idle Franchisee James Jimmy Stewart lives, do let the rest of us know, so we can all get our money back. If anyone gets any further information on submitting any claims against these lot, please share all information you have.
thanks

Ah it would seem that the address supplied was Fast Couriers and not Fastway Couriers, so this isn't the details for the Bradford Fastway Courier. If anyone knows of the details, please let the rest of us know

Hi, yes i am aware of the JSD business - this was an Order made by the Court to wind the company up AND in the interest of the public too - i got a copy of the court order and have this printed off - but this was as long ago as end of June ... i cant believe the franchisees didn't know... but at the end of the day, my business was put to the franchisee who sold himself as owning his own business and that this was run independently - nothing to do with a 'regional franchise' that is something else and my contract was with the franchisee. I think if the franchisee was a little more sincere, it would help heal the wounds, but the attitude from him was not good and at the end of the day, in law, you have to establish firstly, was there a contract and if so, between whom and for what? The franchisee's van says he runs the franchise as an independent business and all the jargon on the internet says the same thing, chasing Amit is a waste of time and difficult to prove that the running of the business was not done so in an ethical manner, i would have thought ?? In my eyes the franchisee has had the commission and benefited from the contract i had with him and i have suffered losses - which are very easily evidenced. Making a cheque payable to a third party at the instruction of the franchisee i don't see elimates anything from a contract between the two parties ie myself and the franchisee..... Sick to death of these rogues is how i feel.

Yes!! You are write I think we should do the work for developing in every country. I must say that you are doing a brilliant job. If people want so every thing is possible so you have to carry on your work. It is a really very important article for every business.

Unfortunately not, but if this comes to light and you find any information out, please do tell the rest of us - likewise if anyone knows where Jimmy Stewart lives, i want to know this also. 

I've been told to go on 192.com which i will be doing shortly.  Apparently you buy tokens which enables you to search against people and find out their addresses. 

I think the whole thing is torrid to be honest

Not only is Amit Desai's house up for sale, it seems he may have moved quite a bit in the past. Check out his twitter account. For some reason he is "following" FIVE different regional Police Forces ! or are they following him?