Comment / Against the odds: Goodbye 2021, hello 2022 – the year of force majeure

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Last week, I was finalising my recommendations to my employer’s Executive regarding which make of heavy commercial vehicles to purchase. We had shortlisted two makes (one European and one Japanese) and had evaluated their models in our business.

Although not looking to buy Eddie Stobart fleet-numbers, it was still a sizeable number of vehicles. I had recommended a multi-year purchase programme with the successful tenderer, based on (a) pricing discounts based on volumes and (b) making sure we get the vehicles ...