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Hi all, new here, been in the plant industry and around plant about 44 years, seen a few changes in that time.
Vinpetrol
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What have you been doing in the 44 years ?
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Hi, started as an apprentice fitter in 1980, carried on fitting until about 2002 with various companies, had the opportunity to take up a workshop supervisor role for a major OEM, stayed there 16 years and moved from supervision to product support and then machinery sales, been in construction equipment sales in some form since. Got an eye on retirement now.
Vinpetrol
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You’ll have a few tales to tell then ! What plant have you worked on ? What did you sell ? You’d of been a rare salesman actually knowing the products !
Welcome to the forum by the way
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Thanks for the welcome. Apprenticeship was Volvo BM or Anglo Swedish Equipment as it was then, after that it was repairing most "yellow" plant, CAT, Akerman, Volvo, JCB, Komatsu etc when working for a plant hire and contracting company up to 2002. Then a long spell at CAT, Fitting, Supervision, Product Support and Machinery Sales, carried on the sales at Fuchs, Case, JCB, Komatsu and SANY. Having a engineering background certainly hasn't hindered the selling side, allows you to talk with a bit of confidence and knowledge of what your selling....Most of the time!!
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Are you still at SANY? Must have been a brave move from Komatsu?!
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Not really, All the comments are water off a ducks back now, been selling them for a couple years. I've been about long enough to remember other brands entering the UK and the feed back they got. I was out in China in November last year, possibly some of the best factories I've visited. They are not everyone's cup of tea but then that's true of some of the other brands.
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I’m not slating the brand, just interested in a salesman moving from somewhere ‘safe’ to somewhere still relatively new!
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No offence taken, you actually hit the nail on the head with "Safe" Sometimes you have to try something new and different, that's where I got too. Moving to SANY and selling is a proper sale, its not just order taking. Its an enjoyable challenge though.
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We're you at APF last year?
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No, didn't do that show.
Vinpetrol
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What’s your opinion on the Sanys ? Do they use Isuzu engine across the range ? Are they having dpf and ad blue issues ?
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I have no problem backing the product, I've seen what the factories are doing, the R&D facility and like to the look of what will be coming through over the next year or so. Small machines up to and including 8t all Yanmar, the 14t machines are Isuzu, after that they are Cummins from the 21t machine up, Deutz engine in the rubber duck, Loading Shovels and Telehandlers. I haven't had any of my customer have DPF issues. AdBlue, no more than others I guess, normally diesel or dirt in the AdBlue tank.
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A good customer of mine had a new Komatsu dozer on order (which was a very big deal for him - he’s got a large fleet of new JCB’s but they don’t make dozers, and dozers are expensive!). Delivery kept getting pushed back. He was eventually promised it for a certain date and he really needed it for a new job that was about to start - a couple of days before delivery it was cancelled AGAIN so he told them to shove it up their arse and subsequently hired a machine in (and then bought a D6).
I relayed this story at the time to another customer who has mountains of Komatsu gear (all with the intelligent machine control - he is heavily invested in the brand) and he laughed it off - he reckoned a cancelled order would have made the Komatsu dealer happy as they are constantly over-promising! He had an order in for several million at the time and they were messing him around - someone buying one machine has no chance!
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That’s another reason I went to SANY, they had stock. Most OEM’s struggled with new stock although some of it at the time was a knock on from Covid, lack of micro chips and so on.
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interesting news from Ovlov ......
" Volvo CE has signed a contract to sell its 70% stake in Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co (SLCM) to the Lingong Group. ..... Volvo acquired a majority stake in SDLG In 2006 to gain access to Chinese construction equipment market.
Volvo Group will sell its shares in SDLG for 8bn Swedish Krona (about £600m). ........On the other side of the world, Volvo is buying Swecon, a £750m-a-year equipment dealer with operations in Sweden, Germany and the Baltics. "
www.theconstructionindex.co.uk
" Volvo CE has signed a contract to sell its 70% stake in Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co (SLCM) to the Lingong Group. ..... Volvo acquired a majority stake in SDLG In 2006 to gain access to Chinese construction equipment market.
Volvo Group will sell its shares in SDLG for 8bn Swedish Krona (about £600m). ........On the other side of the world, Volvo is buying Swecon, a £750m-a-year equipment dealer with operations in Sweden, Germany and the Baltics. "
Volvo Construction Equipment in double strategy switch
Volvo Construction Equipment is quitting its Chinese manufacturing joint venture and returning to direct distribution in Europe.
www.theconstructionindex.co.uk
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