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Minimum fleet

A promise to pay the servicing charge for at least 70 vans a month, however many vans the client runs. It costs Polgarrow nothing while it runs 80. If the supermarket round ends, it could pay for vans it no longer runs. Heads of Terms, row 6 · Chapter 9 · see Deadlock

Explained in Chapter 9, How to Break a Deadlock in Negotiation: New Variables, of Negotiation Skills.

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A minimum fleet is a promise to pay the servicing charge for at least 70 vans a month, however many vans Polgarrow runs. While Polgarrow runs 80 vans, the promise costs nothing. Kestrow can count on that income while it pays for a bay. A buyer of Kestrow would value it too.
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