Разговорный бизнес курс. Митрофанова И.В. - 40 стр.

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transport fleet. Every month it gets worse having to rely on outside contractors.
PETER: My dear Bruce, H.G. wouldn't hear of it. You know the new works
extension is working out twice as expensive as we originally estimated. We're
supposed to be making economies to offset the increase!
HILL: I don't think it would cost us so much... In the long run.
PETER: There are a lot of arguments against having our own fleet. It's difficult to
keep the lorries fully employed, and you've got to calculate depreciation.
HILL: I realise that. Of course the most efficient system would be to have articulated
vehicles.
PETER: Well, surely you have to be a very big operator to make that system
economic. The traction units that do the pulling are very expensive.
Anyway, what's wrong with the contractors who supply us with lorries?
HILL: They can't always let us have one when we want one. And then there's the
cost! Andersons' bills get higher each time.
PETER: They why don't you go to another contractor?
HILL: That's just it. We can't. We've been with Andersons so long we get a good
discount. It's not the basic charge they increase, but the expenses: fuel consumption,
alleged breakdown, driver's expenses on overnight stops and so on.
PETER: If we had our own fleet there'd be similar problems and expenses.
HILL: But they'd be controllable. Turn round time, for instance.
PETER: How do you mean?
HILL: I mean we can never really be sure of how long they'll take at the other end.
This load that's just gone off today, for instance, taking those desks and chairs for the
new ship at Clydebank. We need that lorry back here the day after tomorrow.
PETER: H'm. Well, I'll try* to suggest to H.G. that we should have our own vehicles.
But I don't hold out much hope...
(The driver of Andersons' lorry, Ernie, has given a lift to a man he has met in
a transport cafe.)
'FOXY' RUNCORN: It's good of you to give me a lift.
ERNIE: Well, here we go up Shap Fell. Two thousand feet of Pit. It's time they built
a tunnel under this mountain.
FOXY': Turn off at the next road on the left. will you. Ernie?
ERNIE: What? What did you say? Look here, what are you playing at? I thought for
a minute you'd got a gun in your hand.
'FOXY': Yes, but it is a gun, Emie. Just take the next turning on the left! Here it is.

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