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With rriore than 40 trucks sold since the start of the year, business booming at Essex independent dealer Hanbury Riverside. Goner manager Lee Smith says: "It's really surged thanks to plenty of repe: business and recommendations. "We've got a lot of Volvo 380hp FFt 6x2 tractors in stock at present with mid-lift axles and Globetroth cabs, and none of the stuff is ex-contract. What we have tends to t 1995 N-registered or later—buyers often view trucks registered 1994 or earlier as old vehicles."
A tractor rather than a rigid specialist, Hanbury Riverside e respray trucks in the purchaser's colours, service them and suppo them with its own warranty. "We work to the same level of preparat( as the manufacturer-approved used truck schemes," he says. Smith not afraid to buy large quantities of fleet vehicles for re-sale dire from operators "We've just acquired a batch of 27 tractors, a mix of R, and Sregistered Volvos, Oafs, and Scanias, all with low mileagr and at 380hp upwards," he says. Hanbury Riverside is near the gia Lakeside shopping complex, just off Junction 30 on the M25 as opposite a depot run by Volvo distributor MC Truck 8,1, Bus.