Ed's Express Excursions & Transfers

24/06/2024

One for the road-ragers...

The Perspective Gap.

Roll the tape.

Good article on EQ.

Learn what it means to roll the tape--and why this technique is so effective at helping you build empathy and strengthen your relationships.

20/06/2024

This is my PB*

5 x Grown Men
5 x Longboard bags
5 x Luggage

If you think you've got too much luggage, definitely give me a call!!

And if you don't, but still want the best legal and insured service, still call me!!

*Personal Best, in regard to the amount of over-sized luggage and number of passengers

13/06/2024

Diesel: Quite literally, giving you more 'bang for the buck'!! 😁 I filled up with diesel at $1.72/ltr, yesterday!!

When you take into account the 'Embedded Emissions' of EVs taking 7yrs to zero out, the fact that they're never really at "Zero Emissions", because re-charging predominantky uses fossil fuels, have issues of batteries catching fire (Google ' Electric vehicle battery causes fire at Sydney Airport, destroys five cars'), and struggle to take more than three passengers with check-in and carry-on luggage; I'll not be joining the furphy-fuelled (🤔😉🤣) fad of rushing out to buy an EV. I'm holding out for Kia's Diesel/Hybrid Carnival, coming to Oz in 2025...

Consumers can chalk up a win at the bowser, with diesel prices falling 12 cents per litre across the country in the March quarter.

13/06/2024

The other day, I surprised a customer. What did I do? I gave them $20 back. Simple as that.

"Why did you do that?!", she asked.

"Because I've had a good week and, based on our conversation during the drive, I thought it may help go towards shouting your boy Maccas while you're waiting for your flight."

Legal, Local, Loyal, and Empathetic: You can trust

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11/06/2024

I use this App on a dedicated phone to the right of the steering wheel. In conjunction with the speedo on the dash and the one on SatNav, I think I've got all bases covered. This has proven invaluable when driving in the CBD, where there's a few poorly sign-posted 40k zones, and Manly's 30k zones.

The speed sign changes as zones change, and it also has audio alerts.

I received a great compliment about my set-up from a cop on an RBT on the Parkway.

Highly recommend using this App, but you'll need a second phone and mount. I'm using an old iPhone6.

NSW was the 1st jurisdiction in the world to release Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) technology as a smartphone app with Speed Adviser. 🌏

Research shows that the use of an ISA App like Speed Adviser can reduce the risk of being in an injury causing crash by 19.6%.* 📉

Download the app today ➡️ bit.ly/speedadviser

*Source: Creef, K., Wall, J., Boland, P., Vecovski, V., Prendergast, M., Stow, J., Fernandes, R., Beck, J., Doecke, S. and Woolley, J., 2011. Road safety benefits of intelligent speed adaptation for Australia.

06/06/2024

The Wakehurst Parkway is closed.

Northern Beaches on flood watch this evening https://manlyobserver.com.au/northern-beaches-on-flood-watch-this-evening/

06/06/2024

TODAY, I WAS TOLD BY A COMPETITOR THAT I DONT CHARGE ENOUGH. "$125? YOU SHOULD BE CHARGING AT LEAST $180 FOR THAT!!"

They are not wrong. But I am not here to gouge my community. Nor am I here to "get rich quick".

Reasonable rates and the best service/customer experience: I am Legal, Local, and Loyal (your dollars stay on the Northern Beaches!!)

You can trust

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06/06/2024

I wonder if the delivery guys had to stop for a rest. They must have got very...

https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-blacktown-couple-baffled-by-delivery-of-hundreds-of-tyres-in-driveway/7e154b2d-958b-4727-9eb6-c8a8ab59168c

🤣🤣🤣

A Sydney family has been left baffled after they came home and found hundreds of used tyres in their drive...

03/06/2024

Change is heading your way, if you're a QANTAS customer.

“Instead of boarding by rows or cabins, passengers will be given a group number from one to six, based on where they are sitting, and then they will board in that group.
Anyone who tries to skip the queue and board in a different group will be stopped at the gate."

It looks like the six groups' seating will be scattered, so as to reduce bottle-necks and bedlam...

https://bit.ly/3yLCGjL

02/06/2024

Others have said, "You got us in our holiday mood faster than ever before!"

Love it.

Customer feedback has been that I put the perfect finishing touches to the beginning and end of their holiday. One stated, "Ed, your service is the icing on our holiday cake!"

Love it.

Let me do the same for you, by taking care of your airport transfers. Reducing stress and exorcising purgatory!!

30/05/2024

Customer feedback has been that I put the perfect finishing touches to the beginning and end of their holiday. One stated, "Ed, your service is the icing on our holiday cake!"

Love it.

Let me do the same for you, by taking care of your airport transfers. Reducing stress and exorcising purgatory!!

22/05/2024

A huge THANK YOU!! to all my lovely customers for their votes. I've made it to the finalist phase. Which is pretty good going, in itself, when you consider we only had two weeks to get the votes in.

As always - I'm Local, Loyal, & Legal: I put the 'Liable' in reliable for your private hire driving needs. May promo still running...

14/05/2024

Effective 28/7/24: QANTAS axe Sydney to Shanghai direct flight.

Just nine months after launching, Australian airline Qantas has announced the suspension of a major route from Australia into China.

14/05/2024

Despite the extra prospective customers, I'm not sure this would be a good thing for our already congested Beaches suburbs. Especially not without 'our' tunnel...

Northern Beaches Council is one of many councils resisting NSW Government proposals to impose higher density housing reforms across greater Sydney.

04/05/2024

🎶🎶🎶 One of my very favourite things to do is what I am doing right now...

Listening to Nick Hammond and his 'Smooth Jazz Mix', on Northside Radio.

Soulful solitude is cathartic!! My customers like it, too!! Thanks, Nick.

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29/04/2024

Whilst I am neither promoting nor endorsing the airline, I felt compelled to spread the word.

Lots of huge savings to be had, allegedly...

Jetstar turns 20 next month and to celebrate it’s dropping a massive sale.

26/04/2024

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME!!

Hi, everyone.

This is a bit short notice, as the guys who run the awards were meant to e-mail me when this year's voting had opened. They didn't: And now I've got less than a couple of weeks to get my votes in to win the 2024 award for Best local Business in my category.

So, could you please click on the following link and quickly submit your vote. (It's about three clicks...)

Cheers!

Ed.

https://thebusinessawards.com.au/73768/eds-express-excursions-and-transfers

24/04/2024

There's stuff in this that most of us won't know, but it has a bearing (pun absolutely intended!!) on some of the background fees contributing to our airfares - such how much countries charge other countries' airlines to fly through their airspace.

Certainly worth taking the few minutes to watch, as it explains a few other factors lurking in the background.

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Support Wendover Productions on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wendoverproductionsBehind any commercial flight is centuries of political negotiations and a...

23/04/2024

Per the way they taught in England, the answer is in the picture. Both go round the back of eachother. They don't actually give the answer until the final paragraph, but they do also reference the fact that it's the same rule as the real roundabout rule - give way to vehicle already at the intersection.

https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/who-goes-first-at-an-intersection/

16/04/2024

If flying in a "baby plane" is a prospect that you find daunting, this is a must read - with a tip on how to know in advance and change your booking/plane type...

https://www.escape.com.au/travel-advice/qantas-code-you-dont-want-to-see-on-your-boarding-pass/news-story/70a7f5441e373a049228c2b439a894f6

Back in the days when everyone had personal interactions with their travel agents, this was something that they would check for you.

16/04/2024

If flying in a "baby plane" is a prospect that you find daunting, this is a must read - with a tip on how to know in advance and change your booking/plane type...

Back in the days when everyone had personal interactions with their travel agents, this was something that they would check for you.

30/03/2024

30yrs ago, today, I started my new life as an Australian. More to follow in the comments, 'cos I'm at a party...

19/03/2024

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!!!

Literally, "winner, winner". As well as the chook shop $100 voucher, I also got two tickets to Hughies' show at Narrabeen RSL. (Which really made it a win/win/win!! 👍😁)

The joys and perks of being in a car in the wee small hours, between airport drop-off and boomerang airport pick-up.

17/03/2024

I've been expecting, and predicting, this since the light-rail was implemented and closely followed by the city slowly coming out of pandemic lock-downs. More and more tarmac converted to protected alfresco areas for cafes, restaurants, and bars in the city.

As a pedestrian consumer, I love it!! Make the city more enjoyable for the tourist.

As a professional driver, I'd like to see some sense applied in regard to an orbital road system using existing thoroughfares that provided drop-off and pick-up points for passengers to easily get to and from.

Basically, the end of the from/to-the-door service in the city...

Either that, or sort out the damn synching/phasing of the traffic-lights!!

The City of Sydney wants to make the CBD more pedestrian friendly, but will discouraging motorists cause economic harm?

08/03/2024

To eSIM, or not to eSIM? That is, as it turns out, a very good question...

Lesson: Do some research ahead of going to the airport.

OPINION: I thought it would save me time and hassle. I was wrong. And I went hungry as a result.

07/03/2024

Car safety authorities are getting a "bit too touchy"!! 😁

Europe’s peak vehicle safety body will punish carmakers for moving essential safety controls into touchscreens and away from physical buttons.

07/03/2024

Gimmicky and misleading new websites trying to get your attention and business with unsustainable propositions and falsity-filled marketing, or locally know businesses now owned by faceless corporations confusing you?!

I'm your true local and independently owned and operated business providing honest and proven best service and #1 customer experience.

And that wasn't easy to say, let alone type!! 🤣🤣

Trust

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25/02/2024

50yrs ago, laws changed in NSW; mandating the use of seatbelts. It took the UK another decade, before making the same move. I started calling Australia home 30yrs ago. I chose to move here for various reasons - one being I believed it was a safer place to live... but seatbelts were not a factor!! 🤣

State governments are making millions of dollars a day from drivers still not wearing seatbelts, but which states are the harshest?