English - Nooteboom Giants on the Road Magazine English - Nr. 3 - 2016 | Page 21

COUNTRY REPORT

SMART dealer Channel SR

COMPLETE PACKAGE : TRUCKS , NEW AND USED SEMI-TRAILERS AND EXCELLENT SERVICE

Channel is a large Scania dealer with five branches in northern France . Its subsidiary Channel Semi-Remorques sells more than 250 new semi-trailers of various makes every year . With the sales of the Nooteboom SMART programme , Channel has a market share in the low-loader sector of nearly 50 %.
DANIEL SIABAS Daniel Siabas is responsible for the sales of new semi-trailers at Channel since 1989 . Daniel : “ Channel Poids Lourds started out in 1979 as a Scania dealer with just one workshop at Calais . By providing an excellent after-sales support and proposing services and complementary products as rental , carrosserie and selling of trailers , the group developped itself in the North , Picardie and Champagne and get now 9 workshops all over this area . Since 2009 , Alexis Bourel is the cao of this family group . Under his impulse , our future building in Canly ( 60 ), located near highway A1 , will help us to answer with even more efficiency to our customers needs ”
CHANNEL AND NOOTEBOOM Daniel : “ The Nooteboom trailer that sells best in our region is the OSDS-48-03 . This semi low-loader is very popular with our customers because of its extremely solid construction , high load capacity and superb residual value . We sell the SMART line for years , but thanks to our close partnership with Nooteboom we also help them actively selling a number of very heavy low-loaders by our customers .”
PENSION Daniel : “ I am 65 now and my retirement is in sight . My colleague Philippe Demarthe is already doing much of my work and Pierre Honoré has begun to sell Nooteboom semi-trailers . I have been selling trucks and trailers for more than 40 years and enjoyed every moment . A long time ago I started by selling Berliet trucks . When Berliet was no more I switched to semi-trailers and have never regretted it .” Channel Poids Lourds delivers a complete package : Selling and rental of Scania trucks ,
■ Daniel Siabas
closed box semi-trailers , tippers , open semi-trailers and semi low-loaders for heavy transport . An excellent concept , combined with a perfect service and different branches in trade in second-hand vehicles . ■
■ Complete package : tractors , trailers and service at five different branches
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