Four frighteningly good arguments for Contract Hire
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y New legislation: -A. you have been warned The ruinous cost of being a vehicle short needs little underlining. Goods on your hands and goodwill in jeopardy, drivers idle, manhours lost in hunting a replacement. And make no mistake: the new legislation you've been reading about is going to ram the fact home but hard. Braking efficiency and noise level tests, spot checks for tyre suitability and wear, a new stringency in inspections, more than salutary fines for offenders. With a B.R.S. Contract this cannot happen. Proper maintenance, and responsible adherence to the regulations, you can take for granted. And the supply of replacements in either foreseeable absence or emergency—just as the loan of supplements for peak-activity periods— will be automatic. You will never be a vehicle short. 2 Capital: your most precious commodity Proper application of capital can bring in higher returns today than ever, misuse and depreciation cause deeper damage.
B.R.S. Contract Hire provides you with transport under your own colours and to all intents your own transport. But with no draw on your capital, as much (or as little) dayto-day control as you want sand a chance to review and when necessary replace.
And if you have a fleet already and are beginning to regret it, you can recover your capital by selling outright to B.R.S., re-hiring under contract and handing over the problems connected with it to people whose sole business they are. The number of new clients, particularly since the squeeze and the new legislation, who have done just this is argument enough for its sense.
Overheads: how realistic are you?
Garaging and maintenance; salaries, wages, National Insurance, S.E.T., overtime and holiday pay; fuel, repairs, road tax and vehicle insurance; depreciation and eventual replacement; telephone costs, heating, lighting, accommodation; losses by delay or breakdown ... there is a surprising lack of understanding of the true costs of running transport. So run your eye over the list again and see how realistic you really are.
But don't lose heart. Whether you use your own drivers and garages or ours, whether you need x vehicle or 15 or 150, a budgeted monthly payment to B.R.S. Contract Hire would leave you more in pocket than you've probably been for years.
4 The national coverage you've got to have Imagine a driver from the Midlands breaking down in Bath. At night. With a particularly vital cargo. In a vehicle of a type only a specialist can service.
A call to the nearest B.R.S. branch manager (and he can't help being pretty,near) will bring a replacement vehicle at the double while repairs get under way. Or if it's back at base that it's needed a teleprinter signal will despatch it, with or without standby driver, at once.
Or imagine you supply wholesalers in 19 widely scattered towns. Which do you suppose would be the most economical: to run 19 vans and drivers of your own —or hire two or three to deliver at conveniently sited B.R.S. storage and breakbulk centres and let their own daily distribution services take it from there?
Because these are the sort of assets—just two of them— only a company of B.R.S. Contract Hire's size and spread can offer. With 200 fully equipped branches right across the land you've got a ready-made transport system, as local or national as you like, that cannot let you down.
You want proof? We'll send it you tomorrow
Ask your secretary to write in, briefly but today, and we'll send you by return a booklet giving many more details.
Or if you like we'll send a specialist round. He won't be a hard-sell merchant. He may not even recommend a contract. He'll be a professional adviser who'll take a professional look at your transport set-up, see for himself where the difficulties lie and suggest how you could best tackle them.