Aiming For Silver

摘要

We have to start by pointing out that the co-founder of C&M Plant, Martin Woodgate, doesn't pretend to be anything he's not. For example, you're unlikely to find him in a suit. You're also unlikely to find him anywhere other than at work. "What you see is what you get," he smiles. But if you're thinking there's nothing to be learned by spending the day with C&M Plant -a commercial contractor slogging away at the, what can we say, the lower end of the industry food chain? - then you're wrong. Because organisations like Kent-based C&M Plant are squeezed from both sides: undercut by owner-drivers and trampled on by larger competitors. Plus, of course, working inside the ring of the M25 - as the company almost exclusively does - brings its own pressures and challenges, not least of which is depot security to prevent theft and vandalism.