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• Trailer dealers Rod Pybus and Peter Fleming are now trading under the Montracon Northern banner. Close to the Al at Scotch Corner, North Yorkshire, they are selling the company's range of trailers, tippers and reefers, and will continue to develop their used trailer business too.
Used trailer prices have fallen over the past 12 to 18 months, says Fleming, but a realistic buying policy has helped the business—which formerly traded under the SDC Northern banner—remain profitable during the second half of the year. "Our used customers are looking for flats, skeletals, and curtainsiders, all on air and usually at 13.6m," he says. "We don't have quite so much of a demand for box or fridge trailers."
He Is amazed by the number of old trailers that remain in service, despite the weights and dimensions changes of recent years.
"People still refurbish trailers and can get a working life of up to 25 years out of them. We even saw a 1968 one at an auction near us the other day," he says.
With 56 years worth of trailer sales experience between them, Pybus and Fleming have built up the business over the past 12 years. They also have a maintenance and fabrication depot on a 1.5-acre site In nearby Mchmond.