T4207 - Messenger, courier and armoured car service, express agent, mobile escort (pilot car)

Operational Details
Messengers and couriers provide similar services. It includes the delivery and pick up of documents, letters, and lightweight parcels on a scheduled basis for timely delivery to the destination point. The employees usually drive a lightweight truck or car. The services are used by those who require urgent delivery of legal documents, contracts, parts, and materials to their customer. Express agents receive and store express items that are picked up and delivered by a courier, messenger service, bus line, or private citizen.
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Armoured cars are usually operated by a uniformed driver who is accompanied by armed escort. They use secure transport vehicles to collect and deliver cash, securities and valuables daily across stores, banks, deposit boxes, and ATMs. Armoured car service businesses may also transport and handle non-negotiable securities, receipts, documents, etc., without armed escort. Cash may be counted at a central location and funds delivered to clients, most typically retail and commercial businesses, and made available in the form of a cash "float" on a regularly scheduled basis. The equipment includes trucks, vans, dollies, and coin rolling machines; and workers include armed security personnel, bonded warehouse workers and administrative staff.
Pilot cars escort heavy haul vehicles who transport oversized or wide loads on public highways. The operators may also be required to lift power transmission lines if the load is too high. The escorting of an oversized load is required under the Motor Vehicle Act and is provided for highway safety. A pilot car is a half or three quarter ton truck with a orange light bar on the roof.

SIC Codes
​000000807 - Courier, messenger service000000936 - Armoured car service
000000810 - Mobile escort (pilot car)