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Originally Posted by Stuart
Personally, I don't see how the contractor's subcontractor can still be making a profit, but in terms of contractors, it could conceivably be cheaper for VM to use them purely because they don't need to maintain a load of depots for their vans. The contractors probably do, but they can share the cost amongst multiple customers (even though VM are the only cable company in the area, they can probably do works on other cables and pipes under the road, so the cost of each depot could be shared between VM, BT (or any other fixed line telco) and any of a number of other utilities.
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Are contractor and Sub contractor vans VM branded? If so, I guess this makes it harder to utilise them for other purposes.