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Ken Devereux, director, KW Devereux and Sons
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We have no solution as yet we're still in a quandary as to what to do. Traditionally we've owned our trucks but we're looking at R&M contract-hire arrangements now, We're picking up trucks as dealers have them available.
I know lots of people are forward-ordering but I think it's risky. It wouldn't be a problem if the trucks were consistent but we got 10 new Euro-4 Scania R-Series in February and they have cost us 00,000 in extra fuel. It's very disappointing and a lot of money.
Our Renault Premiums and Mercedes Actroses and Axors have been OK. but the problem is when you order Euro-5s you may find you don't want them once you know how they'll perform long-term.
You can't know what a truck is like until you're running it if we'd ordered two years' worth of the Scanias we'd have had a problem.
We haven't bought used trucks for a while and prices have hardened so much it's not worth it now. It's not easy whichever way you try it, but if we can't get any trucks for a while we'll just do without.