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Export potential can add
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£31000 to a truck's value USED TRUCK SALES are booming."It's been a very good year so far and I really can't complain at all," says independent dealer Martin Rhodes "There's plenty of demand for tractor units in the £10,000-£15,000 price bracket. For that money you'll get a very good X-plated Renault,Iveco, or MAN 6x2. It'll get you into a slightly older ScaniaorVolvo too.
"Even quite old vehicles are selling well if they have an export value," he adds."The difference between a vehicle that's got export potential and one that hasn't can be as much as £3,000."
"Export markets are looking to take slightly more up-to-date vehicles these days though," says Mike Smith of Widnes independent dealer Smith Brothers. "There's no longer the interest in 4x2 3-Series Scania tractors that there was, hut they will still take the 6x2 version."
Nor is the tempo being disrupted by manufacturers dumping ex-contract stock as they did a few years back. "They're still doing crazy buy-back deals, but not to the extent they did previously." Rhodes observes.
"We're getting lots of enquiries for almost everything," says independent dealer Peter Hassan of Lympne,Hythe,Kent-based Eurowise Truck and Van."What's more prices are far stronger than they were a couple of years ago."