I have to agree a good sales ploy to sell there report maybe
plimsoll are finding times are hard as well.
But if the statement is true ? Who really wants to deal with a company who takes over 120 days (4 months ) to pay there bills , and long term that will cost jobs.

Its is intresting to read the comments like hopefully our industry will recover in the near future.

I say intresting because anyone who does not see the forklift
truck is now going through a fundamentle change.

Much in the same way as the car industry has done in the last
10 years.

In simple terms there are to many people providing forklift trucks in the UK.

The day of the dealer is now over as the margins are no longer around.
As the plysoll report said cost bases have to be cut.
In real terms Medium size compaines with 4 or 5 depots around the country with 5 service managers 5 depot managers etc are in big trouble.
And I would not mind betting make up the large Number of the
150.

You have to say companies like Toyota saw this comimg 2 or 3
years ago and binned there dealers

The other big problem for the dealers is one to five man bands.

The day when everyone laughed to the grease monkey turning up onto site in his Ford transit are now long gone.

OK they operate out of a small unit in the back end of no where
But there cost base is low and now provide a good local service.
And Maybe most importantly there worked for the local dealer
for 10 years and built up good relationship with customers.

So there you go the dealer is being hit from the top and bottom.