Old trucks for export.

[GA Groundcare]

13 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

There’s a vehicle dismantler near here that has a lot of Eastern European’s working in it. They chop up insurance write-off cars that aren’t allowed back onto the road in the uk and subsequently have to be destroyed, but cut them in such a way that they can ‘cut and shut’ them using a good front end with a non-damaged rear. They are all loaded into artics and I can only assume head east for a rebuild.... 

I also bought a van off a firm who also import/export cars all over the world - transporting super-cars in and out of the Middle East etc. In the corner of their yard were some terribly smashed up vehicles including a pretty new Hilux that looked as though it had rolled down a mountain - no part of it was straight. Apparently these were sent to India by one of their customers, where they would be fixed and re-sold.

Blimey! Do they take cut n shut requests?!

[peatff]

On 22/10/2019 at 12:29, Tommy_B said:

Make a nice change for it not to be on Rouge Traders.

• There will be red faces if it is???

[wicklamulla]

I had an old Isuzu pickup for 11 years and originally paid 4k for it,  sold it for 1k.  It got exported.

[benedmonds]

Since selling our 2 trucks for export a few weeks back, we got a speeding ticket in Germany and now got a quote for topping some conifers in Czech Republic...

 

I can have tax deductible to trip to prague to do the quote...