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Hino's Euro-3 launch
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Hino's newly-launched common-rail diesel Euro-3 Ilx4s should provide Heddesdon dealer Valley Trucks with a boost, according to joint managing director, Mick Page.
"We sold less than 20 Nines in 2002, but the new trucks could get us back to around 35 to 40 a year," he predicts.
The availability of ex-stock ready-towork chassis fitted with alloy aggregate as well as steel tipper bodies, not to mention mixers and rear and front-end loaders, will certainly help, Page reckons. "The prospects are pretty good," he says.
Not that Valley is solely dependent on Nino. Looking like just the sort of operation that could be created by changes to Block Exemption—"what we're doing might be the way things go for everybody in the future," suggests Page—it's also an agent for Isuzu trucks and a service and parts dealer for both Foden and Renault.
"We sell new vans as a rest* of our Renault Trucks connection too," he adds. "What's more, we've got a paint shop, we build bodies, and we sell used trucks.
'There's a particularly good market for second-hand Hines. They're few and far between, and they sell very readily."
Demand for new Isuzus is starting to increase, he says. "We sold 25 in 2002, and we should do 40 to 50 this year."