Saturday, March 21, 2009

Are You Ready For Fleet Management?

You have the goods and the customers to buy your products, but where do you even begin to start finding ways to distribute your merchandise to the population at large. A grand solution is to hire a fleet management company to take care of your distribution needs. By using the fleet of an outsourcing company, you have access to refrigerated trucks, dry vans, tankers, and trailers without the worry or the capital expenditure involved in starting and running the trucking fleet internally.

Fleet management encompasses the distribution of goods though out all fifty states in the union, so you can focus on your core competencies as well as work without the strategic approach with the warehouse / distribution center. Expenditures do not stop once you purchase a truck. You then have expenses such as maintenance costs like cleaning, preventative maintenance, emergency roadside service, licensing, and the need for substitute vehicles.

Not only do you have to worry about the physical maintenance of the vehicle but your are also responsible for the documentation involved in running a distribution center. You are responsible recording and filing quarterly fuel tax, payment of federal highway taxes, annual permit renewals, and mileage recording.

A distribution service has the flexibility to substitute, increase, decrease, or change equipment depending on the needs of your company. You have the benefits of cutting operating costs, maintenance worries, and have one predictable invoice instead of a cluster of unexpected expenses.

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