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Another fleet goes under tho hammer
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Ian Hay was a serious operator. Passionate, driven and professional, he took part in the 2001 fuel protests and lobbied MPs about the rising fuel prices and the ever-growing tangle of red tape.
But in the end he had enough and called it a day. When the Ian HayTransport fleet of Scania R andT-Series Toplines,,Daf XFs and Volvo FH12s went under the hammer at Commercial Vehicle Auctions in Doncaster, it attracted more. buyers than a traditional Wednesday sale. Hay explains why he finished: "I'm fed up with the amount of rules and regulations and the rising price of fuel." His tone makes it clear that he had explained this until he was blue in the face to the people he. hoped could help—the politicians."I've experienced MPs," he remarks. "They are a different breed."
As soon as he started up in 1986,moving farm machinery and construction vehicles across Europe, he was forced to expand to keep pace with rising costs. "It's got to the stage where nine vehicles aren't enough to make a living," he explains.
Ian Hay Transport was based in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, which didn't help when most of the work was in England Hay is well aware that being based down south, possibly in the Midlands, would have slashed fuel bills:"I tried everything to save money. Motors that use less fuel, decent drivers, fuel bunkering... but nothing worked."
If there was one area where he refused to compromise on cost it was the trucks and trailers that did the work."There's no point buying a truck where you lose a heap of money straight away," he says.
The nine tag-axle tractors and nine state-of-the-art extendible triaxle trailers attracted more than 250 registered buyers at CVA on 25 February and raised more than £600,000.
The sale might have been one of the quickest on record at Doncaster, but Charlie Wright had to stand on a box in a packed lobby to handle the bidding.