A New Car For The Garage
The guys have been complaining lately about the process we have for picking customers up or dropping them off. You we we do not hire out courtesy cars, so one of us ends up dropping off customers and picking then up and often this is in their own private vehicles. Often I give the guy the keys to my car, but i am not the tidiest of car owners and no are my kids.
So a consideration is to buy a company car for the garage or to be more exact lease one. I had thought about using one of the salvage vehicles we do from time to time, but the time it takes to repair each one, means I need a profit back. I have been looking at contract hire rates and to be honest, some are a very small outlay, considering I can claim back all the VAT (as the car will only be used on business and will stay at the garage) and set other costs to the business and always have a nice clean new car.
On saying this, I haven’t fully decided if contract hire is for us yet, being in the trade I often get offered great cheap cars, but even a cheap car means taking money out of the business, so for now the brain cells are working on what is right for us.
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