Cadeby Tree Trust, a seasonal business distributing Christmas trees, operates a fleet of 2 to 25 vehicles and sought flexible hire solutions to manage their varying requirements. They chose to partner with Northgate Vehicle Hire over purchasing their own vehicles, benefiting from flexibility and significant cost savings of approximately £50,000 per year. Key factors for their choice included service quality, cost, fleet variety, and location.

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Cadeby Tree Trust
Business: Christmas tree distribution
Employees: 10
Fleet Size: 2-25
Cadeby Tree Trust has been growing, supplying and maintaining
Christmas trees for over 20 years. It is a seasonal business which sees the
selling of their trees between October and December each year. Cadeby
operates between 2 and 25 vehicles ranging from pick-ups to HGVs and
have a wide variety of vehicle requirements including the length of hire
and vehicle type.
Cadeby looked into the acquisition methods
which were available to them and considered
the following two:
• Purchase – in the past they had owned their
vehicles but found this impractical and it could
not meet their requirement for flexibility to suit
their busy periods
• Flexible hire – due to the seasonal nature of the
business, Cadeby needed an acquisition
method which was flexible enough for them to
be able to manage the utilisation and variety
of their fleet, helping them to add, reduce and
change their fleet size and type when required.
Working closely with Northgate, the
business has identified numerous benefits
from the partnership:
• When comparing methods and companies, there
were several key factors which Cadeby
considered; service, price, fleet size, fleet variety
and location. They found Northgate met a large
number of these requirements
• Not only has Northgate provided Cadeby with
flexibility, they also provided the company with a
good standard of service
• By choosing Northgate over purchasing a fleet
of vehicles, Cadeby consider a saving in the
region of £50,000 per annum has been made
as a direct result of no longer running an under-
utilised and ageing fleet.
Approximately £50,000 saved per annum as a direct result
of no longer running an under-utilised and ageing fleet