One of Australia's premier training and recruitment providers for the mining, civil engineering and transportation industries has just updated its fleet with a heavy-duty Hino 700 Series truck from Hino dealer CMI Adelaide.
Richards Mining Services (RMS) operates 14 Hino trucks and offers licence training for the transport and mining industries to allow drivers to seek any level of truck licence.
RMS offers a vast array of training courses, recruitment solutions and corporate services, with three training centres in WA and a new facility in Adelaide that will specialise in heavy vehicle training.
RMS group operations manager Graeme Richards said he had been using Hino trucks as training vehicles for four years.
"We keep the trucks for three to four years and then turn them over, because we believe if we want to give the industry the best training, we need to use the most-up-to-date equipment," he said.
A combination of vehicles and equipment means the company can meet the demands of its clients by creating various configurations - from a rigid crane truck, semi-trailer with extendable and drop-decks, through to road trains for its learner drivers.
"We use the real thing so the learner drivers will know what it will feel like," Mr Richards said. "For this reason we have lots of different truck options for training, including anything from 6 to 18-speed transmissions."
RMS also uses tippers and runs three brand new agitators or cement mixers.
"Hino trucks have a good warranty, and we now only use Hino trucks - we have found their service support to be the best," Mr Richards said.
"If we have a problem they (the Hino service support staff) are 100 per cent reliable to help us fix it any time of day or night."
Mr Richards said the trucks are also easy to drive and have good resale value.