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Posted by Jacob Hart
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Aug 24, 2017

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3 mins read

 

New equipment can make a significant positive impact on the moral of your team and the result of your bottom line, all over your business they improve efficiency. Here is some of the key areas they can effect. 

1) Fuel Efficiency

New excavators are gaining massive advantages in fuel efficiency. With the new hybrid systems, you can gain up to 15% fuel burn reduction. Even without the hybrid but through improved hydraulic systems, excavator manufactures have been able to reduce fuel consumption through smarter engineering.

This of course has a significant effect on the bottom line of your business. You save on fuel spent and you don’t need the downtime in fuelling up machinery so regularly.

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2) People Care for the Equipment

You will always find your team will be prouder of their new fleet of Equipment and will be active in keeping it look bright and smart! If a machine does not have any scratches on it no one wants to be the first to put some on, and once the machine does have some scratches – the attitude may be what does it matter if we add some more!?

3) Less downtime

It is obvious that new machines are very unlikely to break down. With new equipment, you can be assured that it is ok to put them out long term on a large job and they will continue to work for you day in day out without causing you downtime issues which ultimately have a negative effect on your bottom line.

4) Less maintenance costs

With less downtime, it is clear that maintenance costs are going to decrease. New machines require less servicing than some older machines and if you are keeping a new up to date fleet (selling equipment before it gets to old) you will not need to pay for expensive maintenance costs such as new track gear or GET.

5) Get More Business!

Your customer prefers to have a new piece of equipment on their site rather than an old tired looking machine! New equipment shows to you clients that you care about the finish of the job, you are professional and it shows that because you look after your machinery you are going to look after them!

6) Peace of mind

New machinery gives you the ability to see clearly what you are doing – you can financially account accurate costings in your forecasts. And you don’t need to be continually thinking of contingency plans of machinery breaks down!

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Jacob leads a team of professional marketers who creatively execute Attach2's marketing strategy.

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