WHEN DOES A MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN BECOME A NERVOUS BERAKDOWN??

This happens when your mobile crane breaks down on a major route outside a hospital at rushour. We attended streight away in our low loader recovery vehicle and were on scene in 20 minuits.The brocken down crane was loaded and … Continue reading

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Osborns LEZ solution.

We at Osborns are proud to be working with Cawdell Ltd. Cawdell are a leading supplier of exhaust regenerative traps offering the most reliable and cost effective solution to becoming compliant for London in 2012. These A.R.T traps ane virtually maintainance … Continue reading

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MENU Pricing the new way foward….

We at Osborns are allways looking at ways to cut the costs of fleet maintainance.So we have come up with a menu pricing strategy that can be taylored to any make and model of vehicle,any size and type of fleet,made … Continue reading

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Track clearing machine…

Another rather unusual job for Osborns.The machine in the pictures clears trees and general undergroath from railway lines and road making projects,oh and just about anything in its path! The mighty machine weighs in at a whopping 32 tons is … Continue reading

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Narrowboat Nightmare!!!!

One of our valued customers telephoned us with what they discribed as a nightmare.They had to move a 38 foot narrowboat from a small industrial estate in Milton Keynes to a local marina.The narrowboat had been built and was going to … Continue reading

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Osborns open Tachograph Centre……

As part of our constant inprovment scheme Osborns are opening a VOSA approved Tachograph centre.This will mean that we no longer have to rely on outside contractors giving us the flexability to carry out Tacho callibrations and repairs with no delays,minimising the ammount … Continue reading

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Osborns to the rescue….

One of our valued customers telephoned with a problem and we were only too happy to help.The problem was a 19ton paperpress that had to be moved out of a building to a new location.The crane hire company could not … Continue reading

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OCRS scores caused a new customer real problems

If you mention MOTs to most people, they might expect to do some work on the van or car before it passes the MOT, but that is not a problem. An MOT inspection in the commercial vehicle world however can … Continue reading

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VOSA, headlamp setting and MOT failures

How annoyed do you get if your HGVs fail their MOT because of a headlamp failure? In 2002 VOSA surveyed mainly heavy goods vehicles and found that a lot of MOT failures were due to headlamps being incorrectly aligned. VOSA … Continue reading

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Welcome to my Blog

I am hoping my blogs will open up the world of commercial fleet servicing, maintenance and recovery so that we can all keep up to date about new ideas, problems we face and technology that can help you help your … Continue reading

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