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UK and export markets hold up
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• Tippers and skiploaders were in great demand at a sale held at Doncaster by Commercial Vehicle Auctions.
An M-registered Scania P93 280 6x4 tipper sold for fr2,000, while a Pir3 360 skiploader of similar vintage went for the same money. An S-registered 1998 Scania 124 360 eight-wheeler tipper was knocked down for £30,000.
Several 1994 M-plated Iveco four-wheeler tipper grabs came under the hammer too, and were disposed of for L5,25o to £6,250 apiece. They'd all been worked quite hard.
A steady stream of MercedesBenz tractive units flowed through the sale.
An N-plated 1996-vintage 2544 6x2 tractor sold for £13,000, while a 1995 4x2 I850 High Cab fetched Lro,000. A 1996 P-registered 1838 41(2 High Cab sold for L9,500, while an N-plated 2534 6x2 went for L8,500.
A 1996 1850 4x2 High Cab was bought for i12,500, and a 1998 on an R Mega Cab 1857 Actros sold for f20,250.
A string of Dennison triaxle 2oft/40ft sliding bogie skeletal trailers have appeared at the last three or four CVA sales, and have attracted plenty of interest. 1996 examples have been selling for £6,500 to £7,000, while 1997 examples have been going for i7,000 to L8,000.
Much older skeletals have been selling well too, with 30-year-old 2oft tandems fetching £800 to L'i,roo apiece. They're destined for export markets. Chris Wright, managing director of Commercial Vehicle Auctions, says exports of used trucks from the UK are also holding up, despite the war in Afghanistan and its knockon effect in surrounding countries such as Pakistan.
"People are still sending stuff to the Far East, the Caribbean, Africa, and Russia," he says. "In fact more vehicles are being bought for use in Russia and Eastern Europe than ever before."
The Russians and East Europeans are buying younger vehicles than they used to, he continues. "At one time they would only buy seven to eight-year-old trucks, but these days they're more interested in four, five, and six-year old examples, and they're very picky about what they will take.
They like MANs in particular, although Ivecos, Volvos and Scanias are all very acceptable. Far Eastern buyers like Volvos and Scania too, but Caribbean buyers favour ERFs."
• Auctioneer Manheirn Europe is also finding that overseas buyers are busy at its sales too. "Quite a lot of trucks are going to Nigeria and South America, and some are going to South Africa," says national HGV and plant manager, Jeremy Martell.
He believes that the domestic used truck market will remain healthy over the next few months, with cautious hauliers tending to buy second-hand rather than lease a new truck that they may subsequently be stuck with if work falls off due to a downturn in the economy, he contends.