Superforce Express South East

09/04/2026

Last week I'm pretty sure I covered the highest mileage in a single day in the past five years of driving the incredible Kia e-Niro.
On Monday 30th March I took a call from Brian Scannell at Keltech Engineering in Waterford to travel to a company based in Burnfoot Co.Donegal about 12KM's north west of Derry city to collect a machine service tool they needed early the following morning.
It was 11AM before I was able to leave home here in Ballywilliam and had 70% charge in the e-Niro.
I made just one charge stop at the new ESB Ecars hub in Airside Retail Park in Swords Dublin for one hour before hitting the M1 and driving continuously the rest of the journey to Burnfoot in Co.Donegal. I decided to stay on the M1 till I crossed the border onto the Newry bypass and taking the A28 for Armagh. I left the A28 just past Markethill and was then on B roads up to the M1 and left it quickly for the A45 to Moneymore Co.Tyrone. Then unto the A29 and A6 dual carriageway to Derry.
I arrived at the company security entrance at 5:20 pm where I collected the part. I had covered 399.8KM's from leaving home. I have higher profile '60' tyres (original 55) on the Kia which actually means the odometer gives a very very close through measurement of distance. With the original tyres speedometer over read by 8% odometer about 4%. I had 30KM's of range left!
Using the EV charge app ZapMap I had to head to a BP Pulse charge station at Dungiven Road, Derry city. When I arrived there with the battery down to 5% there was a notice on the charger's stating the credit card reader wasn't working on any of them. I also had very poor mobile phone reception to try and use the BP Pulse app which I recall having major trouble with in the UK in 2024. But very luckily a NI guy with an electric BMW who also tried to use the chargers and failed with his app was able to tell me that there was an old ESB Ecars 50KW charger at a no longer in use Maxol filling station a short distance away. So THANK GOD I was able to get charging there for 45 minutes while I went off and got my lunch at a very good chipper where the BP chargers were located bearing in mind it was now 6:35PM!
ESB Ecars have very few chargers in the North and this particular one for some strange reason is not shown on the Ecars app that I use all the time. The whole EV charging infrastructure in NI is about the same as what we had in the south about four to five years ago.
I had to take the main route back to the south via Monaghan as I did not want to encounter any further charging uncertainties in NI. I arrived at a good charging facility at a Circle K station, N2 Emyvale Road and got a good charge session there before leaving there at 9:50PM. So the weather conditions were good and headed down the N2 and onto the N33 at Ardee leading onto the M1 north of Dunleer.
I had planned for one more final charging session at Circle K M9 Kilcullen which lasted 29 minutes leaving there at midnight. I had calculated that getting the battery to 60% was enough to get to Waterford and back home to Ballywilliam.
I arrived at Keltech at exactly 1AM and had arranged to give the part to one of the night shift supervisor's.
I arrived back home in Ballywilliam at 1:45 in the morning having clocked up a total of 848 KM's, a certain record in one day!

20/10/2025

20/10/2025

I would like everyone seeing this post to visit the website for Superforce Express SE superforceexpress.ie and just scroll for 5 seconds. I have a way of monitoring the number of visits to the website and want to see can I generate a snowball effect in the overall number of visits which I believe places me higher in Google searches when someone searches for a courier in a particular region.

10/12/2024

Thankyou to two more Waterford based legal practices for putting their thrust in Superforce Express SE for getting their documents delivered at short notice to Dublin.

Firstly to solicitor Aiden Power of Nolan, Farrell and Goff LLP, Newtown who has availed of the service TWICE!
First run was done in July in the Kia Niro (Due to the day being very wet) to a deadline of 2pm to the Four Courts.

The second run on the 31st October was less urgent and the Honda VFR motorbike was used for this delivery to another practice in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2.

Then last week I received a call from Cira O'Sullivan of Peter O'Connor & Son Solicitors based on Adelphi Quay in Waterford.
There were four boxes of documents I collected at 5:20pm on Tuesday and delivered the next morning to another legal practice on South Mall in Cork city.

The Kia e-Niro now four years old and approaching 90K KM's was able to travel from Ballywilliam where I live in County Wexford to Cork city, back to Waterford city and crawl to the evening traffic for half an hour and then back to Ballywilliam with 15% charge remaining without never going near a charger pretty on par with a similar run back in 2021 when the car was new.

According to some of the EV Experts (EV haters, and a survey conducted by AA Ireland) I have one more year or 10K KM's to go before I will need a new battery!

12/08/2024

On the 4th of July I received a call from Kenny Stephenson and Chapman Solicitors in Waterford for an urgent delivery to Perts Solicitiors in Dublin. There was a 1:45 pm delivery time on this as ultimately the folders had then to be in the near by Four Courts by 2pm.

12/08/2024

Another 'Reeling In The Months' catch up post. In June I did two separate deliveries for Keltech Engineering in Waterford BOTH by motorbike. The first one was a record distance I haven't done in years by motorbike (185KM from Ballywilliam, more than half of the journey was on secondary roads cross country) to Oldcastle Co.Meath.
Initially picked up the box at Keltech pictured below by car and then decided to make it into a motorbike run as I had only done one bike run so far this year at this point and the weather was favorable. There was no particular time limit on this run once I got it there to a private address in Oldcastle that evening. My body certainly felt this run for about three days after, highlighting my age and need to be fitter!
Then on June 21st I again turned a car/van delivery into a motorbike run to KWS in Portlaoise of transporting three oil cooled arc welding torches. Collected the evening before and delivered the next morning at 8:40 AM to KWS.

15/07/2024

Still in April (when there was a real nice week of weather!) the most unforgettable non regular run of the year! Before Easter, Michael O'Brien in Bantry Co.Cork contacted me about the possibility of collecting a piano at Lacken outside Waterford city. He basically told me I could do it when ever it suited me. I had in mind to spend a couple of days in Cork city canvasing for my courier service so I was able to offer Michael a 20% discount on the delivery of this piano to Bantry.
Thanks to Paul Welsh for helping me to move the piano out of an outhouse on a farm using a dolly (frame on casters) I had to make to be able to push the piano up the ramp of the trailer on a Friday evening. I also had my Honda CBR 600 motorbike in the trailer as I intended to use for the subsequent courier canvasing primarily for calling to over 80% of all the solicitors based in Cork city while my Kia was AC charging over the days I was in Cork city.

I arrived to a pre booked first night stay at D most peaceful glorious B&B Bantry Bay Haven about 5km north of Bantry in a place called Ballylickey on a Sunday evening after traveling over the rocky mountain route. I parked up the Kia Niro and trailer in a car park in Bantry and unloaded my Honda CBR to head back to the B&B. This was my first ever time to use AC public charging on the Kia and worked out perfectly! I arrived with about 12% charge after getting a 45 minute DC charge in Rochestown SE of Cork city on the journey. I left Ballywilliam with 100% charge but towing only commenced from Lacken in Waterford. I had a fridge powered at all times with me also!

On Monday morning I reloaded the m.bike back into the trailer and with a fully charged e-Niro headed to the south side of Bantry to deliver the piano to Michael O'Brien.

I headed back to Cork then and parked up the trailer and Kia in a car park at the back of Cork County Council's high rise office block and resumed AC charging there on the Kia and commenced calling to solicitors on my m.bike the first being the high profile Frank Buttimer & Co who represented the late Ian Bailey. I received a very positive interest from alot of the solicitors practices for promoting of same day courier service primarily to Dublin.

I had decided to stay a 2nd night at Bantry Bay Haven despite it being an hours drive away after getting the 2nd night of stay for a lower price.
On day two in Cork I had to relocate my Kia and trailer to Musgraves Cash & Carry in Ballycurren Industrial Estate (off the Kinsale roundabout) where again I had long stay AC charging for the Kia after security in Cork County Council car park objected to me parking there. Thanks to the staff at Musgraves for allowing me to use their car park without any objection what so ever.

I spent the 3rd night at a big B & B, Moorepark West House outside of Fermoy half an hour from Cork. A good set up and also quiet but badly let down with the 3ft sagging bed mattress!!
Spent the 3rd final day in Cork and left Musgraves with a fully charged e-Niro at 6:30pm (after a long nap) with m.bike back in the trailer. Arrived back in Ballywilliam at 8:45pm without any charge stops on the 156km journey.

15/07/2024

In April I received a call (12:50pm) from Traco Power Solutions Ltd. Killeens Wexford to collect eleven boxes at Harbour Point Business Park, Little Island, Cork which were collected at 3:20PM. A nice comfortable fit into the Kia Niro and a good example of the carrying capacity of this compact SUV. Boxes were delivered to Traco Power at 8AM the following morning.

15/07/2024

For various reasons not to post anything for the past three months I'm happy to do a catch up of posts of all the diverse deliveries that Superforce Express SE has carried out including some long over due deliveries on the Honda VFR 800 motorbike.

11/05/2024

Thanks to Denis in Kilkenny for calling me to collect his stunning classic Kawasakai GPZ900 motorbike in Knocktopher and to Joe in Crossabeg Co.Wexford for delivering his lovely BMW K1300 to Gorey.

25/03/2024

Thankyou to Shane Breen in Waterford for putting his trust in Superforce Express SE to securely transport two of his pristine classic scooters last Saturday. Shane told me there are four scooter clubs in Waterford and Tramore, quiet remarkable!