MAN TopUsed moves stock through Protruck Auctions
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by Steve Banner
MAN TopUsed is starting to use a regular sale at auctioneer Protruck Auction’s site on the Sandtoft Industrial Estate not far from Doncaster to dispose of the older trucks it does not wish to retail.
“We entered 26 trucks, typically 03to 06-registered, in a recent sale, sold 25, and 21 of them beat their reserve,” says Tony Bevan, general manager, sales, at MAN TopUsed.
Some of the trucks – a mixture of tractor units and rigids – went overseas, while some were bought for the domestic market.
“We’d like to try to hold these sales monthly, but it’s all down to the availability of vehicles,” he says. “We’ve thought about holding electronic auctions online but we’ve decided that we prefer the traditional approach, and there’s plenty of online bidding at traditional auctions these days anyway.” Many of the trucks disposed of are trade-ins generated by the minimum part-exchange allowance MAN TopUsed has been promoting.
“We’re getting 04-, 05and 06-registered vehicles offered to us by customers and there’s a good export demand for them,” Bevan says. “We wouldn’t usually retail them ourselves because we tend not to retail anything that’s more than four to four-and-a-half years old.
“One thing we are inding is that some overseas markets are looking for Euro-4 trucks and MAN can of course meet Euro-4 without having to use AdBlue,” he adds. “That’s starting to beneit export sales.”