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SERVICE BACKUP
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Fry has a full contract maintenance packag for five years with Dagenham Motors ii Barking at £225 per month.
"I wasn't going back to the days of workin Monday to Saturday delivering concrete an then coming in on a Sunday to service th truck," says Fry. "It's not acceptable anymore. Dagenham Motors has supplied him with chart showing when each inspection is din "They call to remind me an inspection is du in a couple of days; I drop the truck off in th evening and they give me a van to drive horn: The next morning I pick the truck up at seven everything's done and I don't miss a day work. The only thing I have to put on here ai the tyres."
• CM originally struck up an acquaintance with the 6x4 and 8x4 Mercs 20 months ago when we conducted a "six vs eight" mixer test based on two of the latest arrivals in London Concrete's all-Merc fleet. So it made sense for us to go back to our two owner-driver contacts at the company's Wembley plant (it has eight Arithin the Greater London area) and see how rohn Crowley's six-wheeler and Mick Lavelle's 2ight-legger had withstood the test of time.
The day we arrived, the dispatch team was iantically trying to cope with having two rnixn:s down (including Crowley's Atego, which vas having a new clutch fitted), while only one sired-in replacement had turned up. Then eight-legger rolled in with a slow )uncture on his offside second-steer wheel!
Necessity being the mother of invention, dick managed to re-inflate it using the truck's ompressor and a long air-line, and, after loadag up with a batch of concrete, we hit the road.