Hopping Mad! Dundee commuter has no career with this Scotland based courier!

Here at Eagle Couriers we’re all for the spirit of innovation.

Indeed it’s been our willingness to embrace new ideas (along with our hard graft and our customer care) that helped establish us as Scotland’s biggest independent courier firm.

We were the first courier company to embrace electric bikes and have been loud in calling for more support for electric vehicles and charge points.

We’ve been recognised for recycling everything from tyres to paper waste and we’ve been inventive in cutting fleet miles and therefore carbon emissions.

But we have to draw the line somewhere. Therefore I would like to make it absolutely clear that we won’t be adding space-hoppers to the fleet any time soon.

Yep, you did read that correctly. Space-hoppers.

Not only would the lack of load space be a problem, the miles per hop figures would be insufficient for us to ditch our trademark red vans.

Add to that the single airbag located under the derriere of the user and you are faced with an appalling lack of road safety.  We would never force our drivers into taking such a risk.

Okay, so by now you are probably think that I have gone hopping mad – and may be wondering where all this talk of space hoppers has come from!

Well it was the ill-informed mode of transport used by this jolly fella in Dundee, who after a few festive tipples attempted to hop his way along a dual-carriageway underpass, only to be stopped half way by a baffled police officer, unappreciative of the ‘air-brained’ scheme.

Our drivers see some strange things on their travels, but on asking not one of them had ever encountered a road-going space hopper!