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Export older trucks in bits
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Fears that the export market will be affected by countries imposing age restrictions on used vehicles is encouraging a growing number of dealers to seek out alternative ways to export. Steve Banner reports.
Export sales of used trucks look increasingly likely to be hit by age restrictions imposed by the recipient countries.
That's the warning from Phil Holmes of Keltruck."Tanzania is prepared to be flexible, but Kenya won't take anything more than six years old, and Russia is insisting on a five-year limit, he reports."As far as Kenya is concerned, that policy means you can just about export a Y-plate vehicle. One dating back to July 2001 should be fine.
-But one that goes back to March of the same year won't be," he adds.
As a consequence, the UK may increasingly be faced with having to dispose of trucks for which there is nodomestic or export demand. But Holmes reckons there's a way around this problem —dismantle them and export the parts.
Used parts of whatever age are still acceptable in many countries that would refuse entry to fully built-up trucks of the same vintage," he explains. Nor do the vehicles have to be taken apart in Britain:"You can export trucks that have been cut in two and they'll be dismantled locally."
Such vehicles will have lobe split apart in such a way that the two halves cannot easily be reunited —otherwise they may be denied entry on the grounds that it would be too easy for some wily entrepreneur to weld them back together. a