HGV presentation: How, who and why?

[Davie]

Afternoon,

Just something that I've found myself wondering about as I drive along but amongst the sea of rather tired looking supermarket wagons, rough looking tippers and ruined fuel tankers, it seems there are a lot of seriously well presented trucks running about. Now, I get the owner / driver thing, if it was yours then yes you'd perhaps want to look after it and bling it up however it's the company owned stuff that I'm referring to.

There's a few, what I assume are fleet / company owned artic lorries running around here that look immaculate... as in properly mint, arches spotless, chrome that looks like a mirror and tyres dressed and so on. So my question (we;ll get there!) is who does this and how and why? Is it a case of X company truck is driven daily by a driver who takes extreme lengths to keep it as mint as possible and if so, then where and how does this happen... as opposed to Y company truck that is driven by somebody who doesn't care?

So from a driver point of view and a company... what's the story? Is this a driver choice and thus it's all on him or do some companies promote this sort of presentation and support it? A few "local" ones that spring to mind are Olivers Transport wagons, Dyce Carriers and Calum Plank car carrier's wagons... not only have I never seen a dirty one but there's a few that are borderline concours or so it seems.

Cheers

[Davie]

Indeed, but even taking the properly customised "show" trucks out the equation (though I gather some of those work daily!) it's how companies / drivers manage to keep even more run of the mill stuff looking so good, more so at this time of year. It's actually rather impressive.

[Davie]

I get that, ie understand that show trucks and customised stuff is a great way on generating interest > business but I'm meaning the more run of the mill trucks that seem to work day in, day out but whilst not customised in that way, are still incredibly clean and well presented... is that down to the driver taking pride / investing his own time to keep the truck clean or do some of the fleet operators encourage that sort of thing both financially and in terms of the time it must take? The truck that prompted this was an Olivers livestock wagon... in fact two of them... one a rather hard worked Scania that looked like any other truck and the next I passed was I think a Volvo, utterly mint (yet not new) and thus that made me wonder why some trucks are immaculate yet others in the fleet... less so.