Intertrail buys 78 trailers
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• In its largest-ever investment in new equipment, trailer rental specialist Intertrail is spending over £1.4 million on 78 air-suspended semi-trailers. The business has been shared by Crane Fruehauf and York; most of the trailers will be equipped with Boalloy Tautllner bodywork.
lntertrail says that with weight concessions likely to be made soon for tri-axle bogies on air-suspended trailers, its new trailers will put it in a good position to take advantage of any changes in legislation, including a move to 40 tonnes, which is "likely to give a further boost to the already fastexpanding semi-trailer rental industry".
The company currently has depots in Avonmouth, Halesowen and Stoke-on-Trent, and reports that during 1987 it "experienced very high utilisation across the whole fleet" — but it predicts that a "real growth area" during 1988 will be "medium-term and long-term contract hire".
Intertrail is wholly-owned by Jim Anderson, who also helped set up truck rental specialist Intertrail Rentals with French finance and banking company Societe Generale. In October Anderson sold his 50% stake in Intertrail Rental to SocGen to concentrate on his trailer rental activities (CM 29 October-4 November).