Truck maintenance...Stertil provide a lift to the Myers Group. Biglorryblog has the story.

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Call Biglorryblog an old worryboots but surely it can't take that long to fix a truck? Look how much time has passed since the wagon on the right came in for its service! Perhaps they couldn't get the parts...?

OK I'll 'fess up. This picture is not about the passage of time nor any lack of servicing skills, (or lorryparts) but in fact the new 28-tonne Stertil lifts that have been fitted by the Myers Group, the Huddersfield-based building material supply group as part of a major workshop refurbishment. And to illustrate the fact it's found two nice trucks to lift into the air to not only show how well they work but also the unrestricted access beneath the raised vehicles, leaving a clean uncluttered workshop floor. Meanwhile, for a pie...what's the one on the right?

Myers says the decision to revamp its workshop "...was not only to accommodate the inceasing fleet--but also to raise the profile of fleet maintenance within the business. Installing the [new Stertil] lifts has moved the operation into the 21st century as they simplify repairs and maintenance being carried out to the increasingly stringent standards demanded by VOSA, and make a major contribution to the work being carried out in a safe and efficient manner.' And a big-up to Myers says BLB for taking that approach.

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Peter Lynch

A Scammell Handyman ? Does this pie include postage ?

andrew cooper

surely you mean highwayman.

Richard Stanier

You won't be getting a pie for a wrong answer, Pete! It's a Scammell Highwayman.

Alan Bunting

Yours truly learned to drive a lorry in 1965 in and around Watford on just such a Scammell Highwayman, with an 'open gate' completely non-synchronised gearchange. My instructor was Scammell's unsmiling and taciturn but long-serving demo driver Dick Batten. After an hour and a half's artic reversing practice with the Highwayman rig, at a time when power-steering was unheard of in Tolpits Lane, Dick would tell me I could 'have a blow' - his own vernacular variant on 'have a breather'.

Peter Lynch

I was close, could almost taste that pie.

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