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Bedfords maintained by contract
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by Ron Cater
• How wonderful it would be for hauliers and own-account operators budgeting their maintenance figures for the next financial year to be able to say: That figure Will definitely be £—." Today a new scheme is being introduced by Vauxhall Bedford dealership organizations throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland which will permit the operator virtually to do this. Formulated by the Bedford Service Department, the scheme allows for contractual maintenance agreements to be drawn up between. Vauxhall-Bedford dealers and any operator of a vehicle built by Vauxhall Motors Ltd.
An extension of the Bedford Guardian Maintenance 366 Plan which was announced in May 1968, the scheme will be operated exclusively for Vauxhall-Bedford operators by Vauxhall-Bedford dealers. The costs to be charged will be determined by accurate forecasting of labour and parts requirements • over periods of 1 to 5 years and will be payable by monthly instalments throughout the life of the vehicle or vehicles concerned. Labour costs will be based on the Bedford standard times lists and six different basic forms of contract are envisaged. These are: 1, inspection only; 2, maintenance services only; 3, inspection and maintenance services only; 4, maintenance services only, inclusive of limited materials; 5, inspection and maintenance services inclusive of limited materials; and 6, inspection and maintenance services inclusive of repairs and materials but exclusive of specified items such as tyres, batteries, glass, soft-trim, accident damage and deterioration due to misuse or abuse.
Companies are advised to have their contracts vetted by their legal advisers. Vauxhall Motors are the initiators of the scheme but will not otherwise be directly involved.
Although six nominal plans are laid down there is nothing to prevent operators and service organizations entering into their own individually conceived arrangements. These will often prove necessary when an operator is running specialist operations such as site work and heavy construction work where no standards can be used as a yardstick for the amount of trouble likely to be experienced.