Static rates still rule in hire industry

摘要

In a highly competitive and individualistic sector such as construction equipment hire, there is no such thing as a standard rate for a piece of machinery. About the only thing that most hirers will agree on is that rates in general are too low.An indicator of the pressure on hire rates is the fact that the WA Civil Construction Equipment Hire Manual, published annually by the Civil Contractors Federation, has shown no increase in the majority of equipment categories in the last five years.There can be few areas of business where the cost of such major equipment items have bee static for so long, and where a machine that is worth over