I've had Truck Mounts in all of there forms for twenty odd years, having used portables for some years prior to that. In that time we have clean carpets in every town and city in the country, including Oxford Street, London and NEVER had a problem with access, even in the tallest of buildings and the busiest of cities.
Some portable operators always come up with these clichéd excuses for not offering their customers the very best technology on the market today. Don't get me wrong, a portable in the right hands can do a great job, there's no question about that. The trouble is, a Truck Mount in the right hands can not only do a great job, but can do a great deal of great jobs while the portable guy is left humping his machine into jobs, emptying it, filling it, re-filling it and humping it back into the van again.
People who invest tens of thousands of pounds in Truck Mounts aren't fools, we don't do it just to have the biggest, shiniest toys at our disposal, we do it because we are committed professionals and competent business people who recognise the sheer financial sense in having a system that in most cases is faster and more efficient and does a far better job than your average portable.
I haven't always operated TM's, in my early years we used twin vac portables which to be fair did a job, (otherwise we wouldn't have remained in business) but having made the quantum leap to Truck Mount our business took a giant leap forward and has continued to go forward with the the very latest Truck Mount developments that have opened up markets that are simply impossible to contemplate with a portable, even with a whole fleet of portables.
But.....having done the humping, the filling and the emptying for all those years, I've only got one word to say to you portable operators. RESPECT!!!!
Simon