Recession Busting tips for fleet operators

After payroll, vehicles are the most expensive cost to your business, and the ability for you to pro-actively reduce these costs has never been of more critical importance.

Many companies have successfully introduced initiatives to focus on vehicle cost reduction, with related reduction in carbon emissions, and have made considerable savings. At UK Fleet Manager, we constantly monitor this type of activity across the corporate fleet sector and make ‘best practice’ recommendations to all our clients.

These are our Top 5 Recession Busting tips:

1. Get a grip on fuel use – analyse cost and consumption by driver and set targets.
2. Control your servicing – you’d be amazed how many garages overcharge, so challenge them!
3. Look at tyre replacements – are they wearing out too soon, or damaged? Why?
4. Reduce vehicle ‘downtime’ – find out why your vehicles are spending time off the road.
5. Get your drivers to work smarter – are they using technology to its full potential? Train them for example, in journey planning.

UK Fleet Manager helps with practical guidance on these, and much more to make your business perform better. All it takes is a call to ask us how we do it. Contact me if you would like us to make a BIG difference to your company today. 

Mark James
Mark.james@ukfleetmanager.co.uk

Spending valuable time dealing with vehicle problems?

Time really IS money — never has this been more important than in today’s challenging economy. You should be looking at every minute you spend working to make sure you are adding value to your business, rather than wasting valuable time dealing with unnecessary problems.

And yet I find many directors and business owners who are still dealing with day-to-day vehicle problems from their drivers. I am sure you feel that it takes your seniority and influence to get things done right. Have you dealt with:

• breakdowns
• service bookings
• chasing parts on order
• serious accidents 

However, the truth is you have more important skills, vital to running your business, and the specialized knowledge, contacts and sheer buying power possessed by a professional fleet manager is needed here.

At UK Fleet Manager, we can provide you with a unique fleet management service that takes over all these messy problems and frees up your time to get on making your business a success. We can also save you a great deal of money off your fleet costs.

There’s a win/win if ever I saw one. Contact me to see how we could make a BIG difference to your fleet costs.

Mark James

Mark.james@ukfleetmanager.co.uk

Small Fleets are missing opportunities to save money

SME businesses paying for servicing and repairs to their vehicles are losing out on the discounts available to big fleets. This is due to their lack of bargaining power and the fear that some garages may ‘rip them off’ with inflated charges and incomplete repairs.

By using a specialist fleet management company to control all service and repair work, companies immediately benefit from lower prices by being part of a much larger fleet — plus benefiting from their technical expertise. In most cases, the fees for outsourcing this control are more than covered by the reduction in fleet costs on the bottom line.

This opportunity of belonging to a much larger fleet ‘family’ is beginning to gain acceptance with smaller businesses, but very few fleet companies specialise in this area. Our company does, and is leading the charge to meet the demands of SME businesses. We have 30 years of fleet experience at UK Fleet Manager and focus on helping companies dramatically reduce their fleet costs.

Contact me at UK Fleet Manager, no matter what size of fleet your company runs, and find out how easy it is to save money on your vehicles.

Mark James
Mark.james@ukfleetmanager.co.uk