Lee
They come & they go, we have had quite few "local" companies comes up and some are still going, but they just work local. If I did 6 job's a year say 5 miles from base I'd be overworked!! our net is spread further a field.
As Mike stated sometimes worth working with them, we pass on enquires we cant handle to a couple of companies close to us, if the job comes off, then everybody wins, we invoice a fee for the completed work so works both ways. Trust is important in this scenario.
We have worked with some people from here (CIU) some straight as a dye, one reneged on the agreement
but more fool them as I won't put there name forward again.
There is so much work out there no one person could handle it, believe me I know it is true.