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James Carter
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THE MUMMY TIPPFR OPERATOR
James Caller works for Kent-based South-East Tipping. it runs 22 tippers, 20 of which are Iveco eight-loggers, with engines ranging from 340 to 380hp driving through manual boxes, and up to 440hp with EuroTronic transmissions.
Two of them have crane-mounted grabs; these are based around the 380hp motor, which Carter says is the ideal match for these vehicles, Demand for tippers is already strong throughout Kent_and within the M25; South-East Tipping is planning to increase its fleet to handle the extra business.
Were looking for five or six trucks now, but we want to get to around 35 trucks for the Olympics," says Carter. "That's one of my main areas of concentration now.
"We're flat out all over," he reports. -Our lorries are out every day. We have a lot of subcontractors and around 35 trucks on the road all the time at the moment."
South-East owns two landfill sites, so it can handle site clearance from start to finish. Carter's gearing up for a lot of work in the coming years, even if none of it is directly connected to the Olympic Games. After all, with so many resources devoted to Olympic work, someone has to take on the other jobs. There should be few excuses for idle trucks in the South-East.
"When we did the Millennium Dome you could pick and choose your work,' Carter recalls. "The good news is all the rates will have to come up eventually."
The firm already has some of Iveco's top tippers on strength and he's looking for more: "We like big engines and you could only get the EuroTronic with the 440hp engine before. Our drivers love them. I'm here to try the new EuroTrenic."
Having said that, most of the trucks he's running now will have been replaced by the time the Olympics starts: "Really we want to get rid of them after four years. We have a full three-year warranty, then we get a year to make some money out of them."