All for foreign beefeaters . . .
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IAN OGDEN, manager of BRS Truck Rental's Wolverhampton depot, quickly learned the consequences of promising to supply a vehicle within four hours, day or night throughout the year, on pain of refunding the cost of a day's hire from another company.
The awkward squad went into action on the first weekend of the new Suretruck service with a call at 2.40am on Saturday from an Empire Stores driver whose vehicle had broken down at Walsall. He was on his way with a replacement from Wolverhampton in less than two hours.
Ian was having his Sunday lunch when a refrigerated artic owned by T and M Catto, of Aberdeen, and laden with several lunches, broke down on the M6. Less than three hours later the driver was heading for Southampton in a BRS Rental tractor with his load of prime Scottish beef for export to lucky foreigners who can afford to buy it.