MAC builds a TL deal
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• AN AWD dealer has beaten the contract-hire giants to win a major deal with national builders' merchant Malden Timber.
MAC Commercials of Avonmouth is to supply 200 TL rigids on five-vear lease; maintenance will be handled by AWD dealers and supervised under contract by Car Care, the Leeds-based warranty specialist. Car Care will ensure that proper servicing records are kept and will provide roadside rescue cover.
Malden Timber is keeping other vehicle administration work in-house. That, combined with a reduction in middlemanagement overheads, allowed AWD and MAC Commercials to undercut the conventional contract-hire firm.
AWL), which had registered only 646 trucks up to the end of June, hopes to benefit in the long-term because Malden Timber has a guaranteed buyback on the TLs provided they are replaced with other AWDs.
All of the major contract-hire specialists are believed to have tendered for the work, including BRS, which won a deal to supply trucks on contract-hire with timber merchant Jewson last year. lveco Ford Truck also competed for the Malden Timber business.