Auction crowd after boxvans
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• Nearly 300 registered buyers attended the auction by Malcolm Harrison of 100 trucks and trailers owned by 13 Barnes & Sons at the haulier's Rawtenstall, Lanes base. And it was the presence of a large selection of 17-tonne box vans at this closing down sale that prompted such a sizeable turnout. They ranged from 0plated Seddon Atkinsons to R and Splated ERF Efis with 230bhp Cummins engines: S-registered E6s were being sold for £25.000 to 126.000.
"We've got four 1997 to 1998 Scania 124 threeaxle drawbar rigs with twin-axle close-coupled trailers in the yard at the moment," he reports. Two of them are at 400hp with retarders and air conditioning, while the other two are at 360bhp. They're on sale at less than £50,000 and the phone hasn't stopped ringing."
As far as tractors are concerned, the accent is on fuel economy, he says; suggesting that buyers aren't always getting their figures quite right.
''N-registered ERF EC11 6x2s are selling for £24,000 to £25,000, but an EC14 of the same age will fetch only 113,000 to 114,000," he explains. "OK, the EC11 is frugal, and you get the benefit of a clean engine certificate; but you can buy a heck of a lot of diesel for £10.000 to £11,000.
Reynolds isn't as depressed about the state of the trailer market as some of his competitors are: "We can sell as many 13.6m curtainsiders as we can get, " he says.