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Once trading as SDC Northern, but operating under the Montracon Northern banner since last autumn, dealers Rod Pybus and Peter Fleming are expanding sales of second-hand trailers.
'The market could be more buoyant, but we're still diligently plugging away and moving a lot of metal on the used side,' says Fleming. "Good quality curtainsiders and rolTing-bogie skeletals are selling, as are good quality tippers on air. Tipping trailers with 130-65yd3 alloy bodies and front-end Edbro or Hyva gear are fetching strong money; underfloor gear isn't so popular."
But trailers with mechanical suspension are proving difficult to shift. "Late eighties and early nineties-vintage skeletals on mechanical don't sell because people want to run at 41 tonnes on air," he says.
Used prices overall have steadied, Fleming adds: "There aren't the crazy partexchange deals that were being offered to secure sales of new trailers, and there aren't the volumes of second-hand trailers coming on to the market that there were 12 months ago." Customers make a distinction between premium-branded bodies and chassis and the rest, be concludes.