When you run any sort of business that requires transport – that is, it is needed by you to supply your customers and deliver goods, rather than you need transport to deliver them to you – there are basically two ways in which you can go about it.

You can either buy and run your own fleet of lorries, vans, or whatever else you need, with all of the hassle that entails, or you can rent them from a company such as ourselves at TG Commercials Self Drive as and when you need them.

It depends very much on what sorts of goods and materials that you need to deliver, and how often you need to deliver them. For example, if you are a bakery that produces bread (think Hovis, Warburton, and so on) then your customers are going to need deliveries of fresh bread almost every day.

Equally, if you are a manufacturer of safes, then your customers are going to buy one and won’t need another for many years. In this instance, you are not going to need a fleet of delivery vehicles to run your business. You only need transport as and when you get an order and have produced the safe.

In the first instance, you might think that you need to purchase and run a fleet of vehicles of your own. In the second, there is no point in having even one vehicle if it is going to sit in the yard and you only need to use it two or three times a month, so you are then far better off using truck rental in Manchester as and when it is required.

You Could Save Money By Renting

However, going back to the first situation, it is possible that you would be better off using a truck rental in Manchester under those circumstances as well. This requires a deep look into your needs, but the fact is that you could still save money by renting rather than buying.

When you buy, you have the cost of purchase just to begin with. But it doesn’t stop there. You have to tax and insure those trucks. You also have to service them and ensure that they are running as they should. That can mean buying spare parts and upgrading the trucks as necessary.

You could actually be considerably better off by renting rather than buying, because you have none of the overheads. As we said, it requires some time to do the sums, but is well worthy of consideration.