A truck that fails its walkaround in a yard in Ashby-de-la-Zouch is stuck twice over: it can't go out on its run, and driving it to a workshop is often the very thing it shouldn't do. Our mobile service takes the repair to the vehicle instead. The technician turns up with the tools and the common parts, finds the fault and fixes it where the vehicle is parked.
Food, distribution and tight loading slots
A lot of the town's work is food and distribution. The largest employer is a distribution centre that stores food products and sends them out across the country, and there is a snack factory on Smisby Road. Work of that kind runs to booked loading slots, and the hauliers and smaller businesses around it feel every missed one. A lorry that can't leave at six because of a lamp out or a weeping air coupling can knock out a whole day's plan.
That is the job mobile repair is built for. The driver reports the defect at the end of the shift, we come to the yard that evening or before the first departure, put it right and record the work so the defect sheet and the repair match. DVSA expects to see exactly that link between a reported defect and its fix. The vehicle leaves on time and nobody has to hire a replacement.
Out in the villages
Plenty of commercial vehicles around Ashby never see an industrial estate. They are kept in farm yards and small premises at Packington, Smisby, Lount, Coleorton or Measham, sometimes at the end of a lane where a recovery truck would struggle and a breakdown at the gate shuts the only way in or out. A van carrying tools and parts suits places like that far better. Tell us how to reach the vehicle and whether there is firm standing beside it, and the technician comes ready to work there.
Most air system leaks, couplings and suzies, electrical and lighting faults, tyre and wheel damage and plenty of brake faults are ordinary on-site jobs. Major component replacement, structural repairs and anything that really needs the vehicle on lifts are better done at our Melbourne workshop, and we say so at the outset rather than leaving you with a repair that won't last. If the vehicle isn't safe to move under its own power, we can recover it.
To book, ring 01332 916028 with the registration, what the driver found, where the vehicle is and when it next needs to be working. Planned visits can be fitted outside the working day if that keeps the vehicle earning.
