Advice on Buying your Business Transport
The advantages and disadvantages of purchasing a company car
If your company has the money available then you have the option to purchase a company car. The advantage of this is that the vehicle then is owned legally by the company and becomes a company asset (even though this will depreciate quite rapidly if you buy a new car). If there isn’t the cash [...]
Buy a van or pay a carrier (Part 2)
Whether your company should decide between using a carrier service or buying and running a company van or other vehicle is not just about how much you have to deliver but on how important the delivery is part of the overall contract you feel you have with the customer, and on how important publicising your [...]
Buy a van or pay a carrier (Part 1)
Whatever size of business and business transportation needs there is always the question of whether it is better to provide this service in-house or to pay a carrier of some kind to transport business goods. There are several considerations, volume of goods to be transported, frequency of deliveries, and the nature of the goods to [...]
The Costs of Business Transport
Working out the cost of having a company vehicle
You will already be aware of some of the costs of buying and running a company vehicle, and though you may think that as running costs can be set against your company tax you won’t need to be penny-pinching the idea has little credibility for you if cash is short and you are running near [...]