I own a construction company, and with the housing starts down, my business has slowed dramatically. I have about twelve company trucks and six of them have new auto loans. I needed to cut expenses, but knew I was going to need to continue maintaining at least ten of my company trucks.
I went to the banks that I usually do business with to see what they could do to help me cut some of my expenses associated with my business auto loans. They gave me several loan options and programs for business owners. One of the types of financing they offered me was the chance to consolidate all of my auto loans into one single payment; they called the program fleet auto loans for commercial businesses.
After doing a little shopping around I ended up putting four of the trucks into a consolidated loan with my bank and the other two on a six month, no payment plan. All in all it saved me almost a thousand dollars a month. The two that I put on a no payment plan I think I am going to try to sell to someone looking for a good used work truck before the six months is up. But I am not sure just yet if selling all of my company assets will help me save money in the long run.
If you own a commercial business that has multiple auto loans, there are a lot of loan options available to help your business save money. Auto loans for all types of businesses are available, even if your business is small and you only have one company vehicle.
Even though I consolidated most of my auto loans with the bank I deal with on a daily basis, I found out that there are several places online that could have helped me as well. If you are a business owner that is wondering whether or not to try to sell any of your company vehicles, you should look into the various commercial auto loans available to save your company money. The current economic outlook is only going to get better in the months to come, and saving money now will only make the economic recovery that much sweeter.