Deals On Wheels #454

Ready
to sell,
ready
to work
Kevin Clark with sons
Craig (left) and Damian
(right) with their Hino
500 Series Wide Cab
taking a break at Queens
Domain in Hobart. That’s
Mt Wellington in the
background
it back’. So he hired me the second day to put
the dirt back.
“So the dirt ended up staying where it was
and I got two day’s hire out of it,” he laughs.
On the flip side, Kevin has encountered
rare situations that have led him to humbly
keep the invoice in his pocket. It’s a
refreshing take on an industry that is often
viewed as cutthroat.
“You sort of get talking through the job
and sometimes they’ll tell us of a tragedy, or
they’ve ended up on their own and they’re
battling, and we take it on board,” he says.
“One lady had a husband go into a hospital
with cancer, and she needed an extra
parking spot so she could drive the car right
up to the door.
“We didn’t know anything about that until
about three parts through the job. And it was
just a parking area, and we thought ‘we’ll help
her out and give her that’,” Kevin recalls.
“Another guy, over the other side of Hobart,
rang up and said ‘Kevin, I want to put in a
track from my carport to my front door for
my wheelchair’. And that’s all I knew.
“Anyway we got started on it, and through
the morning we got talking and he said he’d
been in a wheelchair most of his life. He was
only 37 or 38.
“Then when we finished his wife came out
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