Confidence returns as SDC Northern offers new trailers
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Words: Steve Banner AS AN INDICATION that confidence is returning to the market after too long an absence, Scotch Corner. North Yorkshire, trailer dealer SDC Northern is putting new trailers into stock for the first time since before the recession.
"We stopped holding stock because we found we couldn't shift it," says the company's Rod Pybus. -Now we're confident we can.
"At any one time we've got eight to 10 new trailers here, including curtainsiders of varying heights,
fiats and sliding skeletals, all built to rental specifications,he says. "We're getting several enquiries a week for them.
"Fortunately, finance seems to he a bit easier to get and that's probably helping the situation.
One reason for the increased interest in new trailers is that secondhand examples built in 2008 and 2009 are few and far between, says Pybus.
So if you want something more recent, you will have to buy new. "Our used stock dates from 2003 to 2007," he observes.
He sees little point in stocking older trailers dating back to the late 1990s because they have probably suffered too much of a hammering in service to be desirable, "There are still a lot of older trailers knocking about and we're regularly offered them as partexchanges," he says."But if the customer doesn't want them any more because they need a lot of welding and the tyres have had it, then it's unlikely that we'd want them in our yard either."