£150k reduction on Transport

Thanks to this poxy climate and the down turn of the construction industry, my MD has today insisted that i have to find a way of reducing the Transport bill by £150k next year :confused: Due to the LEZ i will lose a vehicle which helps £65k towards the reduction, but i am stumped for other ideas. The only other ways i can come up with relate to reducing driver bonus’ and the possibility of redundancies.

Please someone, give me some options.

I take it you are an own account operator ? If so what is this as % of your overall budget ?
1/ better asset. Utilisation?
2/ Driver training ?
3 / Use subbies ,take a margin ?
4/ Don’t give up there’s got to be a compromise !

The trouble with losing vehicles and drivers is that this means you will lose revenue so all your company is doing is kicking the can down the road.

Sounds like a good time to go jobhunting. :wink:

Subcontract everything.

If it is a builders merchant or something, you either lose the motors and sub it out or you convince the drivers to buy them from you.

Harsh either way

If they’re newish motors, just flog them and buy cheaper second hand ones.

Silver_Surfer:
If they’re newish motors, just flog them and buy cheaper second hand ones.

And spend the savings on repairs instead :wink:

Sack the MD?!? :grimacing:

Stan

Harry Monk:
Sounds like a good time to go jobhunting. :wink:

Yeah there is 30,000 driver vacancies I hear! :laughing: :laughing:

diversify, but don’t do what goverments do, and look at reducing cost, look at improving turnover.

Reduction as a percentage of what total?£150k of £300k is a lot,of £3 million,not so?How long’s a piece of string?Fold it in half n its twice as long from the middle!

Where i`m at, the new bloke has got to save £1.5 MILLION :unamused:

All the employed blokes are scatching their collective heads, wondering how this will be achieved :open_mouth:

All the agency blokes are pointing out the obvious savings [there are loads available] :unamused:

All the employed blokes are starting to look nervous [they are very well looked after] :wink:

It should be interesting come Jan/Feb :neutral_face:

lumberjack:
Please someone, give me some options.

Hi lumberjack, there’s a lot of knowledge on here but as some of the other posters have alluded to, we really need more details on your type of operation / budget etc before any meaningful suggestions can be made.