£150k reduction on Transport

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OWNER AND FLEET OPERATORS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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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.

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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 !

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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:

4

Subcontract everything.

5

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

6

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

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

And spend the savings on repairs instead :wink:

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Sack the MD?!? :grimacing:

Stan

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

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

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

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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!

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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:

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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.