The Business Owner Magazine - November 2020

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and what business considerations should I make? You’ve decided now is the time to replace vehicles in your company, but what is the best way to fund it? What considerations do you need to make? What are the legal implications? What are your most important considerations as a business? … let’s dive in and have a look. - Cost

cheapest overall ownership proposition

- Image

matching the vehicle to your brand

- Usage

selecting a vehicle that best serves your requirement for it

- Environment

There are so many things to consider here, and it is a subject in its own right, but to summarise these are some of the considerations. Purchase price, lease payments, depreciation, maintenance costs, fuel consumption, tax and insurance. There is also the cost of finance and, if using your reserves, the future value of that money. On top of that is how you or your staff treat the vehicle. When you pull this all together, if cost is overriding consideration, then consider the overall pence per mile of the vehicle you choose.

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how efficient and which fuel

- Management looking after one vehicle is vastly different to 100 - Funding

COST:

how to pay and obtain the vehicle

IMAGE:

Some companies pride themselves on always arriving on site to a customer in a clean, modern, efficient vehicle. Others treat employees or themselves for jobs well done


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