Working on a remote farm in Lanarkshire on a bright and cold January day, THE VOICE caught up with David Reive, proprietor of David Reive Plant Ltd who was putting his recent acquisition of a fourteen-tonne Volvo EC140E excavator through its paces. The job in hand was quite labour intensive involving the excavation of old drainage pipes and the laying of continuous perforated plastic piping in an extensive farmer’s field.


Before getting into the detail of the job, it was quite interesting to talk to David to find out what he liked about his Volvo and the reasons he chose to select the EC140E.


“I’d been operating a variety of plant for many years, before setting up on my own, working for several plant hire companies. Over that time I operated a lot of plant including dozers, scrapers, as well as excavators.” says David. “When I did have the chance to drive Volvo excavators, I certainly took to them and found them to be very responsive, comfortable and reliable to operate.”


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