{"id":52846,"date":"2020-03-26T06:03:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/geluk-is-die-klank-van-enjins-20200325-2\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:03:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T04:03:09","slug":"geluk-is-die-klank-van-enjins-20200325-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/kougaexpress\/geluk-is-die-klank-van-enjins-20200325-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Geluk is die klank van enjins"},"content":{"rendered":"

HY buk<\/span> laag oor sy groot, bruin les-senaar \u2013 oral staan papiere en dokumente in netjiese hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

Die viltpen tjie-tjie-tjie<\/i> op die notaboek voor hom, en dan kyk hy op . . . maar wag, die telefoon lui. Tjie-tjie-tjie<\/i> skryf hy verder.<\/p>\n

Kouga-munisipaliteit waarnemen-de vlootbestuurder Nico Gouws (48) sit terug, kyk trots na die wit bord vol blou-en-geel magnete: \u201cNagenoeg 98% van di\u00e9 240 eenhede op die bord \u2013 insluitende 200 voertuie, trekkers en sleepwaens \u2013 verskaf daagliks noodsaaklike dienslewering aan Kouga-inwoners. <\/p>\n

\u201cHetsy om rommel te verwyder, slaggate te herstel, gras te sny of om die strate skoon te hou.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dit was egter nie altyd die geval nie.<\/p>\n

In 2016 was slegs 4% van di\u00e9 vloot in \u2019n goeie werkende toestand.<\/p>\n

Sedert Gouws, die oud-brandweerman, in 2017 as superintendent by die vloot aangesluit het, het hy en sy span vinnig \u2019n duik in die agterstallige herstelwerk aan die munisipaliteit se voertuie begin maak.<\/p>\n

Binne ses maande, van Julie tot Desember 2019, het 18 gehawende voertuie \u2019n tweede lewe gekry en is aan die diensvloot terugbesorg. Dit sluit in \u2019n trekkker, twee sanitasie-vragmotors, \u2019n hidroliese hyskraan, \u2019n kanteltrok, sewe ligte diensvoertuie, \u2019n sedan, \u2019n paneelwa en drie standaardvragmotors. \u2019n Totaal van 77 voertuie is die afgelope drie jaar opgeknap.<\/p>\n

Gouws skryf die sukses toe aan die harde werk van sy getroue span, dissipline en deursettingsvermo\u00eb.<\/p>\n

\u201cSonder hulle sou ek dit nooit reggekry het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Liefde vir voertuie<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

Maar hoe het \u2019n brandweerman \u2019n liefde vir voertuie \u2013 veral stukkende voertuie \u2013 ontwikkel?<\/p>\n

Gouws, wat van kleins af meganies aangel\u00ea was, lag: \u201cEk was nog altyd lief om aan enjins en karre te peuter. Hoewel ek nie \u2019n opgeleide motorwerktuigkundige is nie, het ek alles by my pa en sommer so by myself geleer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hy het in 1989 as \u2019n groentjie by die brandweer in Uitenhage aangesluit. \u2019n Jaar later is hy na die substasie in St. Francisbaai verplaas en het later by die stasie in Humansdorp gewerk. <\/p>\n

Hier het hy sy eie klein werkswinkel begin en was verantwoordelik vir die diens en aankoop van voertuie, asook vir die herstel daarvan.<\/p>\n

Hy het nooit eens daaraan gedink om sy brandweerpak op te hang nie, maar toe hy in 2017 \u2019n oproep kry om by die vloot-afdeling van die munisipaliteit aan te sluit, het hy \u2019n geloofsprong geneem wat sy lewe op meer as een manier verander het. <\/p>\n

En al moes hy afstand doen van die adrenalien en die sirene, meen Gouws \u2019n mens moet nooit te bang of gemaklik wees om \u2019n uitdaging te aanvaar nie.<\/p>\n

\n Vloot-afdeling<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

Sy opdrag: om die vloot so gou as moontlik op die pad te kry. Nie \u2019n maklike taak met \u2019n gemiddelde vloot-ouderdom van 12 jaar en beperkte fondse nie. Nuwe voertuie was nie \u2019n opsie nie, en die bestaande voertuie sal nie naastenby genoeg geld by \u2019n veiling laat inrol nie.<\/p>\n

Daar was net een opsie: maak die bestaande voertuie stelselmatig reg. <\/p>\n

Gouws glimlag: \u201cAl spandeer ek \u2019n bietjie meer geld as wat \u2019n spesifieke voertuig se boekwaarde is, gee daar-die voertuig \u2013 wat dalk \u2019n R100 000 werd is \u2013 ons dieselfde waarde in diens as \u2019n R2.5 miljoen-voertuig.<\/p>\n

\u201cDienslewering gaan voort en die munisipaliteit kan vir nuwe diensvoertuie begroot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Volgens Gouws word die ou voertuie stelselmatig uitfaseer. Nage-noeg 40 nuwe voertuie is die afgelope drie jaar aangekoop, insluitend sewe nuwe laaigrawe teen \u2019n koste van R8.2 miljoen in November, verlede jaar \u2013 \u2019n persoonlike hoogtepunt vir Gouws.<\/p>\n

Verdere verbeterings sluit in korter dienstye van voertuie, meer teg-niese personeel, ekstra gereedskap, die aanhou van parte en die verskuiwing van die administratiewe kan-toor na langs die werkswinkel.<\/p>\n

Funksies is ook uitgebrei: diens van voertuie, bande, sweiswerk, bou van enjins en ratkasse, meganiese werk, bakwerk en spuitverfwerk.<\/p>\n

Voertuigparke in Jeffreysbaai, Humansdorp, St Francisbaai en Hankey is opgerig.<\/p>\n

Gouws se geheim vir die nuutgevonde sukses van die vloot-afdeling: harde werk, deursettingsvermo\u00eb, wedersydse respek, goeie moraal en die nougesette toepassing van die vlootbeleid. En hare op jou tande.<\/p>\n

\u201cVerder het ons die ondersteuning van Kouga-direkteur vir Infra-struktuur en Ingenieurswese, Victor Felton, asook die munisipale bestuurder, Charl du Plessis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Gemeenskap dien<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

Benewens die aankoop, diensopknapping en herstel van voertuie is hy ook die voorraadopnemer, inspekteur en administrateur. Verder is hy verantwoordelik vir die registrasie en lisensiering van voertuie, asook die welstand van werknemers en die kontrole van die vloot en klagtes na-ure. Die aankoop en boekhou van brandstof vir elke voertuig en pompstasie \u2013 tussen R800 000 tot R900 000 per maand \u2013 gaan deur sy hande.<\/p>\n

\u201cElke dag is \u2019n uitdaging op sy eie,\u201d s\u00ea Gouws. <\/p>\n

\u201cMaar ek kry die geleentheid om iets te doen waarvoor ek lief is en ek kan my gemeenskap dien. En dienslewering in Kouga geniet prioriteit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo al die harde werk is die moeite werd \u2013 ons sukses dra by tot die sukses van die munisipaliteit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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