Foshan MBP auto parts co., ltd has exceeded its sales expectations in the first half of the year and is expanding more service space for its eight-month-old Sinotrans dealership.
The company has expanded its truck division to two other locations-Managing Director Jalil Dabdoub said the company is located in the old tannery building at 259 Spanish Town Road, Kingston , And a bonded warehouse at the top of Waterloo Road near Grant Spoon. Distributors can also operate outside of Tools’. Headquartered at 138 Spanish Town Road.
In May of last year, Tools Hardware started selling Sinotruck units. He said that by the end of the year, the service department consisting of three racks and lifts will be expanded to six.
“So far, we have sold nearly 150 trucks, which is better than expected because that is not what we own,” Dabdoub told The Financial Collector, adding that the market’s The interest mainly comes from word of mouth.
The most popular is a six-wheel dump truck weighing 10 tons, 14 cubic yards, and selling for less than $5.3 million. He said.
Sinotruck is one of the Chinese brands that have recently entered the Jamaican market. Other brands are Shacman issued by Tank-Weld Group, and Foton issued by Key Motors to a lesser extent.
Jamaica’s trucking department mainly relies on second-hand trucks purchased from the UK and US markets. However, due to the increasing complexity of second-hand vehicles and the lack of trucks in Jamaica, second-hand vehicles have been plagued by maintenance problems. The technical capabilities and equipment to provide services for them, and lack of spare parts.
Chinese trucks have been replacing the aging fleet of American and British trucks. The tool hardware company is one of the tools to exchange the company’s fleet, and said that it did so to enter the market as a truck dealer if the experiment was successful.
Dabdub declined to say how much his company ultimately invested to build new dealerships, and his plan to spend more money this year to double the repair area.
The Chinese trucks distributed in Jamaica cost between 4.4 million and 32 million U.S. dollars, the most expensive of which is the Shacman unit.
According to multiple industry sources, they are cheaper than second-hand British and American second-hand trucks, are cheaper to maintain, and have a long service life, depending on maintenance.
Sinotruck operates 10-ton trucks and 12-wheel and 16-wheel overload trucks. These trucks have increased their load by 50% and are mainly used in the mining industry in Jamaica.
One of the companies carrying out this conversion is Innovative Trucks, which transports bauxite from the Schwalenberg mine on the St. Ann-St. Catherine border and the deep mines in the Water Valley of St. Ann. These mines are characterized by steep slopes. Degrees (far below the road height) to Chinese units.
“The result is not only very good, but the effect is very good.” McMorris announced with a smile. “We eliminated 20 American trucks in our fleet and invested the same amount of Sinotruk, which immediately increased the tonnage to be hauled by 100%,” McMorris said.
For the old fleet, sometimes it was impossible to fulfill orders due to truck downtime, which caused the company’s revenue to suffer a loss, but McMorris said that due to truck replacement, his business is now no longer subject to downtime and continuous maintenance costs. Troubles.