On the construction site with an Arocs 2643 dumper truck from Le Maître SVTP

"We're a team of 25 people, plus four temporary employees per year; some of whom have been helping us out for several years now," says Richard Le Maître. "That gives me the necessary flexibility to cushion those phases in which we can't work due to poor weather, for example." At times when civil engineering and excavation work experience a boom, he also rents out as many as ten vehicles and other construction machinery.

Due to inconvenient climatic conditions, this civil engineering firm with its headquarters along the coast of The Channel has no other option but to plan their orders on a day-to-day basis. If the weather doesn't allow them to carry out excavation work, then the staff of Le Maître SVTP carry out maintenance and repair work on the vehicles and machines in the company's own workshop. And the boss is also anything but afraid of getting his own hands dirty. It's not an uncommon sight for Richard Le Maître to get behind the wheel of a digger or a bulldozer. "A day in a digger is like a day's holiday for me," he says laughing. He hasn't forgotten those tough initial days in the business, when work was carried out from within uncomfortable trucks and machines – especially in summer when the heat would become unbearable in the mosquito-ridden cabs with fixed glazing. No comparison to today's construction site machines which can be cooled to perfection. The same applies to the new Arocs, which is even equipped with a comfort seat.