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Case studies

Five sectors. One way of working.

PCO fleet, leasing, NHS / public sector, utilities and corporate. Five real sales with the headline shape of each: how the stock came to us, how long the offer took, how collection was sequenced, and how the money cleared.

Case studies

Five sectors. One way of working.

PCO Fleet

22 PCO vehicles, eight depots, £482,000 cleared by Friday

Settlement

£482,000

Vehicles

22 vehicles

Turnaround

Offer by noon Monday

Outcome

£482,000 in one transfer

A South East fleet operator needed to clear 22 end-of-cycle PCO Prius and Skoda Octavia from eight depots before quarter-end. The auction route had failed the previous cycle: variance across sale weekends, post-sale chip claims, months of reconciliation.

Stock list submitted Monday morning. Written offer returned by noon: twenty-two line items, per-vehicle pricing banded by spec and mileage, total £482,000, signed by the valuer head. Fleet manager countersigned by 2pm.

Collections ran Tuesday and Wednesday across all eight depots — two working days, not three weeks. Each depot received a precise arrival window. V5Cs, plate paperwork and condition sign-offs handled on-site. Single BACS transfer landed Friday morning.

Leasing

End-of-cycle dispersal, 220 vehicles across four depots

Vehicles

220 vehicles

Turnaround

Offer in 18 hrs

Outcome

Settled in 14 days

A London-based leasing company finishing a contract cycle needed to clear 220 mixed-age cars and vans from four depots without flooding the auction market or triggering per-vehicle broker fees.

Stock list received Tuesday morning; written firm offer for the whole book returned Wednesday afternoon. Multi-site collections ran over ten working days, sequenced to avoid operational disruption at each site.

Settlement landed 7% above the leasing company's auction baseline, zero remarketing costs, single payment per vehicle on collection date.

NHS

NHS Trust, 44 retiring fleet cars — one invoice, one transfer

Vehicles

44 vehicles

Turnaround

Offer in 22 hrs

Outcome

Single invoice, single transfer

An NHS Trust replacing its visitor and admin pool needed a clean, audit-friendly disposal: single quote, single invoice, single bank transfer, no broker in the chain.

VAT-compliant per-vehicle paperwork provided upfront. Collections scheduled around patient transport commitments at two hospital sites. Per-vehicle written settlement statements provided for the Trust's finance team.

The buyer-of-record process satisfied procurement and finance without requiring external broker involvement or three-quote tender.

Utilities

160 LCVs and minibuses, 16 yards cleared in three weeks

Vehicles

160 vehicles

Turnaround

Offer in 14 hrs

Outcome

16 yards cleared in 3 weeks

A national utility refreshing its van and minibus fleet had 16 regional yards to clear on a hard timeline before new vehicles arrived. Timing was critical: any overlap with incoming deliveries would block the yards.

Centralised stock list submitted Monday; firm written offer by Tuesday morning. Collections planned regionally to coincide with new-vehicle delivery dates at each yard.

All 16 yards cleared in three weeks, no operational overlap, single consolidated remittance per region.

Corporate

Corporate pool car refresh, 65 saloons — 11% above CAP Clean

Vehicles

65 vehicles

Turnaround

Offer in 16 hrs

Outcome

11% above CAP Clean trade

A corporate fleet manager transitioning from petrol pool cars to a salary-sacrifice EV scheme needed to disperse 65 saloons cleanly, with no employee handling and no disruption to the incoming EV rollout.

Collections ran from two corporate sites on agreed dates; all keys and V5Cs returned to the head office logistics partner; paperwork consolidated weekly for the fleet finance team.

Final settlement was 11% above CAP Clean trade — driven by the fleet's documented service history and retail routing of the highest-spec vehicles.

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