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IV ixed views on 6x2 tractors
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SUGGESTIONS FROM Glass's Guide that values of 6x2 tractor units may be starting to dip because there are more around than the market can happily absorb have been greeted with raised eyebrows by some dealers.
While it's true that there are plenty a bout. they reckon that demand remains healthy.
Lee Smith of Hanbury Riverside reports that 6x2 units account for"about 95% of what we sell.I try to persuade hauliers operating solely in the UK to take them because then they can run at 44 tonnes and take on a wider variety of work than if they hada 4x2."
"There are lots of 6x2s around] could easily get you 25 or more if you needed them and had the money -but they're hugely popular and a good one will always sell,"says one prominent Midlands dealer.
"So far as 6x2 Premiums are concerned just about anything dating from 2001 to 2003 does well," says Stuart Barlow, the used vehicles sales specialist at Renault dealership JIDS's Leeds depot.
But Mike Curtis, of Watts Gloucester, wonders if Glass's Guide may have a point. "The market is certainly flooded with ex-contract tractor units, and both 95XF and 85CF values are starting to be affected," he says.
If there is a glut, export sales remain a useful safety valve, although overseas markets are becoming less inclined to take older vehicles, says Mike Smith, of independent dealership Smith Brothers. "We're seeing quite a lot of fourto five-year-old Scania 4 Series 6x2s for preference -at 380 and 420hp go abroad,he says.