FOCUS ON SURESPEED 

In the hot seat this month is Kiel from Surespeed and the NCDA Committee.

Q: What services do you provide at Surespeed?

We provide same day, overnight, international, storage & fulfilment and specialist transport services for TV/Film, I.T. & medical industries.

Q: Do you have any strange delivery stories/encounters from your time at Surespeed?

Not very PG… but we had to fulfil a request to ship an 8ft tall “phallus” from a specialist model maker in the U.K. to Las Vegas for an adult entertainment exhibition. 

Literally first or second day returning to the office after the New Year celebrations in January when everybody is still hungover or depressed with the January blues and me and my team are having to try and get quotes, packaging and documentation for the shipment whilst trying to convince everybody it is not a wind up! This monster needs to be in Vegas by 2nd week of Jan! 

Pleased to say the client received the phallus on time and in one piece…….for want of a better term.

Q: What benefits has your NCDA membership brought to Surespeed?

Being a member of the NCDA has been extremely beneficial to our business as it allows us access to a network of quality, professional, verified courier companies that enable us to offer our clients bespoke solutions all across the U.K. 

Becoming a committee member and attending the AGM’s also gives me a chance to network and make contacts within the industry, which is always handy when you need a helping hand with a large project or obscure request from a client.

Q: What do you enjoy most about the logistics sector?

Very cliché, but I would say the challenge! I love problem solving. The worst thing you can do is tell me something cannot be done or is impossible, because me and my team will prove you wrong!  We have the experience, the contacts or a phone number to get our clients out of a pickle whatever the requests may be. 

We have even chartered a private jet before to move urgent people/items for one of our film clients. That was an experience, followed by a rather panicked call from our account manager at the bank thinking our account had been hacked by fraudster!

Q: What is something unexpected about Surespeed?

We love animals, especially dogs!

If any member of our team wants to rehome a rescue dog or cat, Surespeed pay the cost of rehoming the animal as well a contribution to the charity they adopted the dog/cat from. 

Q: 

If you could have dinner with 5 people dead or alive, who would it be and why?

Katt Williams

The laughs, gossip and convo would be ridiculous.

Oliver Reed

1980’s Oliver Reed though – it would be a heavy sesh, possibly days long.

Jarrod Bowen 

I still daydream about his 90th minute goal against Fiorentina  - winning West Ham the Europa Conference League in 2023.

Gordon Ramsay 

I want original shouty, sweary Ramsay. He would be kicking off in the kitchen and hopefully knocking up some decent grub.

Princess Margaret

My wife watched The Crown and Princess Margaret (in her 30’s) was carnage, and she loved a party.

Q: If you were stranded on a desert island, and you could only bring three things with you, what would you bring and why?

  • Sun cream – Factor 70 (if possible) I’m ginger and of Irish heritage so the sun burn would end me way before I would starve to death.
  • Unlimited supply of cold drinks – Sitting on the beach, staring at the sea with cold drinks on tap doesn’t sound like the worst place to be stranded!
  • Bluetooth speaker/with my spotify playlist – Got to have some tunes on the go in the sunshine! Music makes everything better!

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