* BULLET Express courier service prides itself in the speed of its
delivery service, but the prefix in its title does not refer to how fast
it can do its job.
It describes how David McCutcheon left his previous occupation when,
as he describes it himself, he ''got the bullet''.
Five years on, Glasgow based Bullet Express is expanding, and the name
does fit the company's operations.
David and partner Gary Smith's fleet of vans delivers a variety of
goods to all parts of the British Isles and the Continent.
Nothing surprises David or Gary. They have been asked to deliver a
single screw to Inverness, and transfer a mass of bouquets from Ibrox to
Ally McCoist's home.
The nature of the courier business is that there is normally a degree
of urgency about its service, such as the Friday afternoon it was asked
to pick up Paul Rideout's football boots and take them to Goodison Park.
''Paul Rideout had signed for Everton and had forgotten his boots,''
explains David, ''so we were asked to get them to him for Saturday's
game.''
On the more serious side, Bullet Express was asked by a Scottish
engineering company to deliver a piece of mining equipment to Metz in
the South of France.
''Work had stopped on the site, and it was costing #2000 a shift,''
says David. ''We picked up the equipment at 5pm on a Thursday and had
the equipment in the south of France by 3pm the following day. We had
two drivers in the van so that it could drive non-stop.''
The company started with two second-hand Sherpa vans and David
McCutcheon was receiving an Enterprise Allowance.
Since then the fleet has grown to eight radio-controlled vans and
David and his partner are now looking to expand the company's
operations.
''We will move into Edinburgh this year, and will then look at the
other Scottish cities such as Dundee and Aberdeen,'' says David. ''We
expect we will be handling more work in Europe in the near future.''
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