Brian Parkinson, used sales manager at Schmitz Cargobull, says while the market will suffer from a shortage of late, clean stock it won’t be such a problem for him.
In an interview for Commercial Motor (published today, 12 Janaury 2012) he says part-exchanges generated by the manufacturer’s sales of new trailers should ensure that the cupboard isn’t too bare.
“For example, we’ve got 250 ex-Stobart fridge semi-trailers coming back between January and April. They were originally supplied on a five-year deal, but we’re taking them back after three years and replacing them with new ones because the customer’s requirements have changed.
“They now want more single-temperature as opposed to dual-temperature trailers. We’ve delivered upwards of 140 new fridge semi-trailers to Asda too, and that should mean we get around 100 back between January and March,” he adds.
Cargobull Finance, the trailer maker’s in-house funding operation, is another handy source of retailable stock. “We should be getting about 350 semi-trailers back from them,” Parkinson says. “A lot of operators extended their leases with Cargobull Finance so trailers that should have come back during 2011 didn’t appear but we should be seeing them in 2012.”
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