Want to know what the best selling rigids, multiwheelers and tractors were in the UK last year
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Who are BMC?
A Turkish company that was once a subsidiary of Britain’s BMC.
Surprisingly big company, but their trucks always struggled in the UK. Ironically some of their trucks are exported through the UK to African Commonwealth states.
For a while, they were badged as ERFs and sold through the ERF network. Driveline quite similar to the DAF LF, but the standard of fit and finish not quite the same!
Their buses have done rather better here.
Do dennis eagle do artics / rigids or just dustbin lorries ? and what are they priced compared to rivals?
They seem a great bunch of lads, shame really, i like dennis’s
voodoo1:
Do dennis eagle do artics / rigids or just dustbin lorries ? and what are they priced compared to rivals?They seem a great bunch of lads, shame really, i like dennis’s
Dennis eagle just do just rigids for dust carts, highways trucks, fire engines and airport stuff Etc. BMCs are nothing but a load of crap and BMC come up with a chassis to replace the Seddon Atkinson once they finish, BMC thought they could steel the market but it did not happen.
About the only council to take them in bulk was Eastriding, and then a few odds and sods have them.
One would never enter our hire fleet of Dust carts Lol.
Cheers Peter
A guy I know works for Dennis as a mobile technician. Reckons they are good people to work for.
So far as I know they only do what they call ‘low entry crew cab’ rigids.
Probably 99 % of them go for bin/recycling lorries, but you see some on motorway roadworks as cone layers.
The only other specialist bin lorry to have succeeded in the UK market is the Mercedes Econic, but Dennis outsells them in the UK.
The Dennis has a Volvo engine and an Allison auto box. They also make an export-only version with the renault version of the volvo engine (if you follow me) which has a Renault badge on the cab and is sold by Renault in Europe. There’s a hybrid Dennis on trial in the UK too.
I think they are a lot more expensive than a conventional truck, but cheaper than converting a conventional truck to low entry crew cab and auto box. Classic example of how a small British company can survive by making something others can’t, which although expensive is still cheaper than the alternative.
Dennis Eagle in Warwick used to supply the cab to the Dennis bus company (Now ADL Alexander Dennis) in Guildford to put on a fire engine, but they don’t seem to make fire engines any more (since Euro III, I think).
There’s also a company called John Dennis, which makes fire engine bodies, I think.
tesco have been doing a good line flogging dead 'orses.
hope that helps 