“We make sacrifices that don’t pay”, closes this orn transporter business

for Claude Boscoult“The road is over”.

At the end of 2023, at the age of 45, he decided Cancel your businessThe Transportation BouscoultWhich he created and developed in 2012 Urou-et-Crennes (Gouffern en Auge), where he always lived.

“I slowly went up and I had Up to five driversAnd, with me, six.

I transported a lot of sea containers, and then freight too, in tarpaulins. I have done international work for Michelin many times. We did everything in a container.

“Everything is growing, and we are unable to deliver it to our customers”

Good years have passed. “The Truck prices increase every year. The price of 44-tonne heavy goods vehicles has increased by €25,000 in a year and a half, bringing them to €130,000. Knowing that we replace them every five years.

We proceed from the position of Fuel 33% to 43 or 44% of turnover. The TollThe Tire prices… Everything grows.

And we can’t give our customers a raise. Every time we manage to get results, it is only for charges.

Foreign competition, theft of goods…

He also mentioned “repeated breakdowns (the last hired driver cost us €20,000 in two months)… I have good drivers, but also less passionate ones.

We also deal with Foreign competition WHO A reduction in prices. We are no longer competitive at all.

We had too flights of fuel. and goods. We had a container lootedAbove Le Havre: They gassed the driver, and later, they helped themselves.”

In the Commercial Court, “the judge didn’t want to liquidate us”.

Anticipating the deadline he felt was inevitable,”I prepared to file my bankruptcy. The boxes were not empty, but there was a point where we would have had a problem.

Further, “Even when we applied to the Chamber of Commerce, The judge was reluctant. He didn’t want to liquidate us, he proposed a recovery instead,” commented his wife Sophie.

“Fortunately, we were well supported, especially by the Fiteco firm, who came to the commercial court to argue the reasons that forced us to stop everything.”

“In any case, even recovery was no longer possible,” notes Claude Boscoult. “Among my drivers, two were at the end of their contracts, I did not renew them. Another resigned. I only had one employee left (who benefited from the layoff). And I had five trucks left.

“We have no worries now. We no longer have heads in numbers.”

“In the end, He was tiredHe wanted to stop,” Sophie testifies.

“When you work for nothing, when you no longer find your passion, there is no more motivation. Why do we go, we say to ourselves? We make sacrifices that don’t pay off. “

The forty-year-old man is determined to return to the truck driving profession that he has been practicing for 26 years.

With regret? ” Oh no ! No one! “, he replies without hesitation.

“We live again,” smiles Sophie.

“It takes advantage of the family. We take advantage of it. I have been with him for 20 years and I never know him to be home every night. He didn’t see the children grow up.”

They are parents of three children. “The youngest, when I came home, he didn’t recognize me,” lamented the father.

The couple appreciates the change, “We don’t have any worries anymore. We are no longer in numbers on weekends.

Sophie continues, “Until the bankruptcy filing, I also did accounting in addition to my job.

“On Friday, we were waiting for everyone to come. Sometimes it was from 11 pm to 11:30 pm and on Sunday, we returned. There, I watch my weekends. Afterwards, we have no regrets. But, for nothing in the world, we wouldn’t do it again.

“I didn’t eat my parents’ business!” »

Claude can’t help but think “Somehow, it’s a failure, because if I built my business, it wasn’t even going to close.”

Above all, the synergy that sometimes occurred between his business and that of his parents, Claude and Joël Boscoult, made him rise to the towers. “People who don’t know me think I ate my parents’ business!” When my father sold it in 2003! “

The company, founded in the 1960s, “was originally called Denise Boscoult. Denise is the name of her partner. Later, it happened Transport to Argentina When my father bought all the shares from his partner in the 1980s.

“When my parents sold the business, they wanted me to take it over. But I felt very young. At that time, I wanted to ride, so I would have been forced to stay in the office.”

He continued as an employee, “almost everywhere”.

Argenton Transports, its parent company, was acquired by Gate in 2023

Meanwhile, “Gat, the buyer of Argentan Transports (Gat was subsequently boughtFlares Transport), farmed for a while in the same place, then moved to Argenton, Boulevard de l’Expansion, before I set up on my own.

He then parks his vehicles at his parents’ house in a place called Bordeaux, across the road in La Maison-Marie.

For Sophie Boscoult: “He’ll be there every evening, that’s a bet…”

The ex-road driver now has other projects in mind, “great projects”, Sophie also clarified, without revealing more, except “He’ll be there every evening! It’s a bet…”

Even for Claude, “Sleeping in the truck is over!” “

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