autocardc 381 Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, harrybarbon said: It appears from the many pictures of the concrete agis that the companies dont seem to have a keen interest to have clean trucks and agitators, is my perception fair. Compared to our concrete companies, particularly Holcim, the Swiss company, which bought the Australian operations from Cemex of Mexico after Cemex bought the original Australian owned company in USA about 10 years ago, big presence in the Sthern US states of Texas, Florida - name just now escapes me. Cemex did not want the Australian and New Zealand operations. Locally Holcim has a culture of clean trucks, and most are owner drivers with real good contracts - they make good money The ready mix companies here are all locally owned and they serve a population of 2.9M people, most trucks owned by local companies in bigger cities in the U.S. are dirty. You should see some of the rigs in New York! Edited September 24, 2020 by autocardc 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
storkmack 764 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 8 hours ago, autocardc said: The ready mix companies here are all locally owned and they serve a population of 2.9M people, most trucks owned by local companies in bigger cities in the U.S. are dirty. You should see some of the rigs in New York! Clean mixers is a labor of love. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackey58 541 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 I have to say In my opinion I ve never seen a dirty stork truck unless the weather is crapy 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrybarbon 220 Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Well said, clean agi's is a labour of love, my cousin is an owner driver with Holcim and 1 of his close mates has been with Boral concrete for 35 years, all the guys in their plants are very fussy with their agi's, especially continuously cleaning out left over concrete in their barrels, today the barrel metal skin is relatively thin, if left over concrete builds up, to remove it can easily become holes in the barrel skin, both these 2 guys have all the alloy tanks etc polished every 6 months. There are some smaller private owned concrete plants that have all their company owned trucks and barrels spotless, no matter the weather and there are some who don't care for their trucks' appearance. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrybarbon 220 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Please can one of you guys assist me to load pictures. I was able to load a picture 10 days ago, but now I keep getting an error message Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brocky 1,228 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Harry You may be like me, OUT of room on the website and have to go to one of the picture storage areas to post.. BUT BUT I have NOT figured out how to do that yet!!!! The last pictures I posted I emailed to Jim Hancock and he posted them for me. Quote Brocky Link to post Share on other sites
harrybarbon 220 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Hi Brocky, I posted a photo scanned to my computer file in Aussie trucks on 18 Sept as per usual, yet some 8 days later I repeated exactly the same process to choose a file and I get an error message - unknown server error Mick's Loadstar V6 GM at Pronto Ringwood 1981.PDF code 200 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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