On the move with service engineers in Kenya
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Africa’s roads prove too much for even the best of trucks. The Mercedes-Benz Service Camp mobile mechanics have the task of preventing this. “Mercedes-Benz Transport” visited them.
Trucks in which five brake cylinders are missing and even the only one still remaining is broken – Jost Forchner and his team have seen a lot of things in Africa. The extreme conditions there are punishing for man and material: scorching heat, roads riddled with potholes ... Matching spare parts? Very hard to find. For truckers that means: improvise!
This is where Forchner and his Mercedes-Benz Service Camp colleagues come into play. “Our 12-strong team is always on the move. We stop wherever people need our expertise and the next qualified workshop would take half a day to reach,” Forchner explains. “The fact that our free Service Camp is regularly available nearby is highly rated by our customers – the competition doesn’t offer that.”
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