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KEEPING \, THEM RUNNING
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Recovery—what a picture of expense and trouble the word conjurs up for the fleet engineer! The vehicle involved may have simply suffered a major unit failure. on the other hand accident damage may have rendered it immobile.
No matter what the cause and whether or not the operator runs a wrecker of his own, the result of a towing job nearly always adds up to a bill which can hardly, by most standards, be fully justified. Only with a rather large fleet will the engineer in charge be fully justified in operating a breakdown vehicle of any consequence unless he is willing to make the machine available for hire, with the danger that when he does need the vehicle it will be out on a hire job.
With good preventive maintenance, completely reliable vehicles and accurate componentlife forecasting it should be possible largely to eliminate the major unit failure. A vehicle may
have to limp home on occasions, and only rarely will a fitter with an adequate tool-kit and average common sense fail to get it running. Were the haulage world a perfect one, little breakdown recovery service—only accident recovery—would be necessary. But as all who are intimately involved, know very well, this is certainly not the case and the need to bring in outside assistance to help out one's own facilities is all too frequent.
Numerous companies up and down the country advertise 24-hour service and recovery. In most cases these firms are directly interested in securing the repair work that stems from a recovery; after all repairs are the mainstay of their business.
One firm--Move-A--Car--has set up in London purely and simply as a recovery outfit with a fleet of eight radio-controlled vehicles ranging from a LandRover to a Diamond T. Based on the North Circular Road opposite Hendon Greyhound Stadium, it does small roadside or getyou-home repairs as required with a 24-hour service 365 days a year. All rates are fixed and can be quoted at the time recovery arrangements are made: there are no hidden extras to be included before accounts are rendered.
Contacts at the firm are: Mr. Steve Bernard and Mr. Mick Quinney. The address is: Move-A-Car, Midland Brent Terrace, NW2 (phone 01-450 5421).