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Mannheim is busy getting to grips with a new cycle of HGV auctions thz began at the start of the year, with weekly sales at Colchester Gloucester or Leeds and monthly sales at Haydock and Washingtor It means I can turn around stock that much faster," says grou commercial manager Vic Brailsford. Entries are running at nor than 100 at each site, with the exception of Gloucester.
There's a strong demand for threeto four-year-old trucks, whic are fetching reasonable money, says Brailsford: "There's not quit such heavy discounting on new vehicles as there used to be, an that's helping the values of late-registered examples." he says, wit strong demand for 6x2 tractors. He adds: "4x2s still sell, but the don't fetch the money they once did." How this may change in th light of the Budget remains to be seen.
He is expecting a surge in the supply of trucks up to eight year old as many secondary leasing deals expire. And finance companie that have not been realistic in the way they have written them dow may have a shock when the oldies go under the hammer, he warn: It is still early days. but Brailsford says the used trailer mark( seems no healthier than it was last year: "If you're talking 13.6m c air, and it's a triaxle fitted with wide-single tyres, then it will sell. But you're talking 40ft on tandem axles, we have to take what we can g( for it—and there are a lot of them around."