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Pay less for lubrication
Three steps to help cut operating costs.
Save on each barrel of oil you buy. If you use enough engine oil, you could save by buying it in bulk instead of barrels. Of course you have to buy a storage tank, but it does not take too many barrels a year to make that worthwhile.
Firstly, oil in bulk costs less than in barrels. Next, bulk storage eliminates barrel charges and the labour used in barrel handling. And it takes up less space.
Bulk storage also means you would not be giving back to your lubricants supplier the 5 litres or so of oil costing about £3.00 that is typicall-y sent back in each 'empty' barrel.
Overall it is a potential saving worth consulting Esso about. Save fuel — and all the cost of your lubricants. If you are not operating on multigrades already, and if your vehicle can operate on multigrades, changing from monograde to an SAE 15IN/40 engine oil could add a few pence a litre to your lubricants costs.
But it could improve your fuel consumption by up to 3%. If you had 10 vehicles averaging 80,000 miles a year and 8 mpg with fuel at, say, 37p a litre, that would save you over £5,000 in a year— a great deal more than the cost of the lubricants.
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Use fewer lubricants. You probably need only one engine oil — two at the most — for all your vehicles including cars. If you are using more now, cutting down to one or two will mean fewer orders to process and fewer lubricants to stock. That will cut your admin and inventory costs significantly.
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