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Something for everyone
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Charlie Wright's theory of catering for everyone is pulling in the crowds and driving up turnover at CVA — his biggest problem is where to house everything. Kevin Swallow finds out more.
Commercial Vehicle Auctions' policy of getting everything in from an H-reg flatbed Iveco Ford Cargo to a 03-registered Scania Topline fetching close to £40,000 is paying off.' You need to cover all your bases," says Charlie Wright."You can't pigeonhole yourself and sell just late-year stuff; there isn't enough of it around."
Sales turnover at CVA is regularly topping £1 m — and the last auction brought in il .5m from 250 lots. With anything up to 150 trailers, space on site is getting hard to find.
One growth area is the export of 8x4 tippers to Poland. With their staple diet of Schmitz fridges now supplied from the Netherlands, the Poles have turned to 10 and 11-year-old MAN rnuckaways which are making anything up £9,500. Daf 85 tippers of the same age are going as well, but fresher stock remains in the domestic loop via the trade.
Steel-bodied eight-leggers
CVA recently had seven 20(X) and 2001-registered Scania and Volvo steel-bodied eight-leggers make around £25,000. "We're starting to get a few more in," says Wright."At the last sale we had 16 eight-wheelers in. People have seen that buyers are paying the money for them."