Putting order in place of chaos
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SUCH are the pressures on profits these days that every vehicle operator must have an accurate knowledge of his costs, including those for repairs and maintenance, and must be able to estimate them in advance.
With the current rate of inflation your costing will be hopelessly out if you merely average out last year's workshop costs and include these in the overheads. For these reasons, proper planning and control of the workshop are more important than ever, even for the relatively small operator.
Therefore, in this first series of articles, the advantages of planned preventive maintenance will be discussed, together with the ways of controlling such a scheme. Although the legal obligations for maintenance and inspection are now long-established, and the theoretical advantages of planning are generally accepted, many operators of small fleets still consider the administration too burdensome, and the loss of a vehicle for maintenance an unwarranted interruption to their operations.