Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Things to Consider When Buying Heavy Vehicles (trucks)

Invest in heavy vehicles (trucks) can be a very expensive, but for those in the transport industry and transport. Nothing is more important than having a reliable commercial fleet. Interestingly, most people confuse the old with the reliability and the thought that a new truck can be trusted. This is obviously not the case, well built, well maintained used trucks can be as reliable as new ones.


Heavy trucks for the design are built to last. As its main objective is to transport goods over long distances, they can easily do hundreds of thousands of miles on the same engine. Otherwise what's the point? There are some heavy vehicle manufacturers have a reputation for high quality, for example, a DAF truck used should be easily able to handle 200 thousand miles. This is not the only manufacturer of heavy vehicles in good standing, of course. Iveco, Scania, Renault and Mercedes are just some of the biggest names in heavy vehicle manufacture good and there are plenty more.

Here is some more information on heavy vehicles:

• trucks are also known as LGV (Large Goods Vehicle)

• In the UK heavy vehicles are divided into categories according to the weight they can carry. In some cases it requires a special driver's license.

• heavy vehicles tend to be manual, with a high number of gears, but you may be able to find a decent auto HGV if you look hard enough. Having said that, if you can not drive a manual but you might want to start looking at some of the lessons that you will be able to find more cars with manual gearboxes.


For a small business there are many opportunities to pick up former commercial vehicles in large corporations such as courier companies or supermarket. You can try to contact them directly or use an online auction of trucks. Many large companies use online auctions for trucks to quickly dispose of their vehicles so they are a good place to find a reliable cheap used car.

I'm Brent Compton and I have specialized in the commercial fleet for most of my adult life. This led to the founding of the Second Auction of trucks. In World Truck auction we have a global network of car dealerships with all types of commercial truck fleet to steam roller.