30 years for Ray, 20 years for me. Just felt with the residuals so high for trucks and trailers it was the optimum time to sell up. We have 18 trucks, 29 trailers, majority of the equipment was bought and paid for as we didn’t lease or rent, so a huge chunk of Rays retirement money was in the equipment, Lots of uncertainty for next year as people are talking of a recession, soaring energy prices, fuel prices are still ridiculously high, working as hard as we have for so long, it’s not easy doing what we do. I’ve had hundreds of sleepless nights over the 20 years. Ray will take it easy and enjoy what he has built up, I will take my own path with plans I have put in place, this hasn’t happened overnight, we have been watching the market on used equipment and it’s starting to dip slightly. Timing is right for us, yesterday my phone has never been so busy. Many operators said they completely understand why we are doing it and a few of them said they felt the same. We currently have the best work and rates we have ever had, and made very good money. If we didn’t it wouldn’t have been worth it as it was very hard work. I just made it look easy [emoji23]
We have never been one to bull ■■■■, this is just a case of take the money and run. Every driver is re located already for new employment, we would have made sure of that anyway. Most of them have been “headhunted”
I will hugely miss this and it genuinely made me sad when I posted it on FB yesterday
There is a difference between giving up and knowing when to stop.
Cheers. Pete
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