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4th March 2004, Page 73
4th March 2004
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Used sales are so good the auctioneers are working late. We look over the best deals.

Two months into this year and the auctioneers have good reason to smile. While the start of the year is normally good the management team at Commercial Vehicle Auctions in Doncaster are reporting something of a boom.

Operations director Charles Wright had seen no less than 480 vehicles roll through in a single day, forcing the auctioneers to overlap the end of the trailer sale with the start of the HG V auction. "We grouped all the Scanias together so that any one who wanted a Scania didn't miss out," he explains."We've been finishing at half past five."

Moe than half the vehicles in that sale found new homes and there was a similar outcome last week, with 445 lots going under the hammer.This time it was the turn of MAN and Iveco to overlap the trailer sale.

Late-year titbits included a 2001-plated Renault Magnum 480 E-Tech 6x2 with two topless women stencilled onto the windows_ It sold for £29,750 (exVAT) with the artwork thrown in for free.

Pick of the 8x4 rigids was a 2001 Daf 85CF 340 hook-loader, which sold provisionally for £43,000 (ex-VAT).Two 51-plate 8x4 Iveco EuroTrakker 340s with multi-lift hook-loaders sold for £30,500 and £32,000 (ex-VAT) respectively; a four-axle Volvo FM12 tipper on a W-plate (2000) went for £25,700 (ex-VAT).

Most of the tractive units were four to six years old,and a surprising number were highpower models with upmarket sleeper-cab specs rather than the usual gaffers' motors. Typical of these was an early 1999 T-plate Scania R124 6x2 with 360hp under its sleeper cab — it went for £14,500 (ex-VAT).

There was plenty to choose further down the weight chain. The Royal Mail offloaded a Daf 45 130 on a 51-plate for £11,500 (exVAT).An Iveco 75E15 2001 X-plate boxvan with a tail-lift went for £8,700 (ex-VAT) while an Iveco chassis-cab with a tipper fetched £8,700 (ex-VAT). •

For more information see www.era-auctions.co.uk

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