Brexit uncertainty is prompting some dealers to suspend staff recruitment, while others are planning layoffs.
OEMs, their NSCs and retailer networks need to upweight plans to stop the erosion of overhead absorption across the franchised sector, if the viability of their operations is to be improved and customer confidence maintained.
The market fall in the all-important March plate-change and Q1 is hardly surprising considering the macroeconomic headwinds. We know there was plenty of tactical activity over the course of the month which makes the -2.8% fall in retail demand hugely disappointing.
20 March 2019 Motor retailers need to end the “reckless” approach to recruitment to slow high staff churn and face the reality of the lowest levels of unemployment since the 1970s.
Dealers warned to prepare for record MoT swell or risk losing the business
Video of MD Karl Davis talking about his recent speaking engagement at the Motor Trader Summit 2018
