Motor loss assessing had become dependent on high-volume light motor assessors with a paint and panel background.
Specialised heavy motor machinery and plant, which is prevalent in the farm and agriculture, construction and cranes, logging industry, and civil and mining sectors, requires experts with a technical background, not panel beaters. This sector has been poorly served by the loss assessing community, and there was no national uniform approach available.
A market where pressure on loss assessors' time, fuelled by a squeeze on fees, has produced the inevitable outcome of low-cost heavy motor, machinery, and plant assessing. The sacrifice has been claims costs and client satisfaction.