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Going, going, gone at the CV Show
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A Yorkshire-based haulier put in the winning bid of £57,000 to snap up the MAN TopBid TGA 18.480 on the final day of this year's CV Show.
The eBay-style auction closed with Paul Clayton, managing director of PM Clayton Transport, Bradford, having put in the highest bid.
He will add the truck to the fleet at his general haulage company, which also has a contract with a pharmaceutical company, specialising in next-day delivery He has a 14-strong fleet, with two-axle rigids and tractor units. They are predominately MANs, as well as two Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans.
-1 was looking to buy another one, and I thought why not this one,he said after receiving the news he'd won the auction.
The TGA 18.480, Euro-4 truck has a D26 engine, XXL cab and a 16-speed manual transmission. It has less than 30,000km on the clock, was registered in May 2007 and is under warranty until 2009. It has been fitted with a top-light bar to go with the air-con and twin bunks. Clayton will upgrade one of his drivers and the truck will go on to domestic long-distance work. •