The reasons that lead companies to opt for renting, in another market article by Fleet Magazine for Razão Automóvel.
A recent meeting, which was attended by a good part of the national fleet managers, including the brand new VW Bank, showed that renting is in good health and is recommended. In fact, the managers themselves recommend it as the best financing product in these troubled times. It's not the first time they've done it, but the question is: why bet on this model instead of another?
Although company cars are often thought of as benefits without any justification for employees, the truth is that no company nowadays allocates vehicles without having a well-justified reason to do so.
Businesses need cars to function. If you are a pharmaceutical company, you need vehicles for your medical advertising delegates (who, by the way, can travel up to 50,000 kilometers a year). If you are a consumables company, you need a commercial fleet to reach your customers.
PT has cars for its salespeople and support technicians. CTT has a fleet for mail delivery. These are the most obvious examples, they will say. Yes, but if you were managers of a company and had to choose between assigning a car or paying the same amount in salary, subject to the increased taxation that comes with that, what would you do?
As companies need the cars, they have to buy them. And, as companies are not and do not want to be specialists in purchasing and managing vehicles, they deliver this service to other entities: fleet managers.
There are two issues that make these entities increasingly sought after and, as such, also renting. One of them has to do with the fixed income value, which also includes services. The other, and more important, is related to risk.
Companies don't want their cars to stop. If a salesperson at my company is responsible for an average daily turnover of 200 euros, every day the car is stopped, 200 euros less than the invoice. If you are a person with responsibilities for any service, you still have to pay the damages resulting from this lack of service. Renting, or operating lease, guarantees that this risk is not so present.