Just out of curiosity, how much do buses and lorries cost?
Are they comparatively cheaper or more expensive than cars?
Do any private individual buy them (for doing business) or they are always bought by hauling/transport companies?
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Some "celebrity" ex-boxer living in Brighton bought one - his name escapes me.
Edited by Pugugly on 21/10/2008 at 19:23
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An ekth-bockther who drank with eckth-actorth
and enjoyed driving round in Mack tractorth
through Wetht Thutheckth drove
into Brighton and Hove
thearching out all the betht tractor factorth...
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i think his name is in the lisp ( sorry list) of boxers with articulated vehicles :) , good boxer though
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He can only "drive" the unladen unit - he lacks an HGV licence.
[And with his record of killing innocent road workers by reckless driving; that's a very good thing....]
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I'd forgotten that. Range Rover, not good I agree.
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No idea of prices, but I have on several occasions done business myself or seen friends do business with sole proprietor haulage operations. One man who drives a truck he owns, usually assembling loads from a variety of customers. All the ones I have seen were based in rural areas, but I have no idea whether my v small sample reflects a wider pattern
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At a guess I would say that a new HGV would be about £90K to £120K.
Oh and the best HGV's are Scania...............apparently.
Edited by Pendlebury on 21/10/2008 at 19:27
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Looking at Cymro's web link - £120K might be cheap.
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Buses and coaches cost a lot. One of the cheapest coaches on the market is a Chinese effort - at £150k. A well specced big name coach can cost upwards of £250k.
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Well I was told that a single decker service bus which caught fire in my area, would cost 1/4 million to replace.
The company manager told me they were also self insuring, ouch...
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Hmm, most cost same as house ;)
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As with everything you get what you pay for (most of the time!!)
An average tractor unit will cost in the region of £60-80k, if you need a trailer as well then a curtainsider will set you back circa £25k, but you can quadruple that for a fridge trailer. Rigids, you basically look at a similar price for the chassis and then pay whatever for the body on top, tipper, flat bed, box etc.
Scania still seem to be the dearest at the moment with Hino being very competitive in the tipper market. Volvo seem to be middle of the road with Iveco being the cheaper end of the tractor unit market.
Are they cheaper then cars? Some of the top end units are equally as well equipped and as comfortable as a luxury car so from that point of the money side of it I would say they are better value, if you then add on that they earn they keep and are not just an aid to earning (such as a company car) then I would say that they are a good deal cheaper then a car. But they do cost an awful lot more to maintain!!!!!
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Lud
Wegistwation number 1 K.O.
Thimpley the bethst.
dvd
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Sympathetic figure in my book, rumbling around the Lanes in that behemoth of a personal fun vehicle. I imagine the lisp used to lull a lot of people into a false sense of security...
:o}
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>Sympathetic figure<
don't you mean Pathetic figure?
Billy
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I am a partner in a car transporter business and our 12 car transpoerters cost between £160K and £185K or another way to see it is about £215 per day without turning a wheel. The Fuel Hike this year will have cost about £250k
Coaches are very expensive a Mercedes benz Setra 49 Seat comes in at £300K and you don't even get an alarm for that !!
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