With a partnership that dates back to the 1970s, Jordan’s largest phosphate mining contractor, COMEDAT, recently called on Terex Trucks again by adding 50 machines to its fleet for work mining phosphate in the north and south of the country. “Terex Trucks delivers excellent performing machines,” says Sameh Dababneh, CEO of COMEDAT. “From experience no matter how hard I push the trucks they keep on going, so when it came to expanding my fleet there was only one company I could look to.”

The kingdom is the fifth largest producer of phosphates globally and has an estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of phosphate reserves. Established almost five decades ago, COMEDAT is a family-run business. A leader in phosphate mining, the company is the owner of one of the largest fleets of Terex Trucks in the world, with close to 120 machines consisting of a mixture of 100 tcapacity TR100s and TR60s. Terex Trucks states: “no stranger to the Motherwell-built products, the Dababnehs trust the rigid dump trucks to maximise efficiency in the company’s opencast operations”.

COMEDAT runs 24 hours, seven days a week. “The proven performers, which provide excellent rimpull thanks to a resilient drivetrain and rear axle configuration, are used to haul overburden removal”, while others descend 56 m into the open pit to carry phosphate. An avid believer of standardising, Dababneh adds: “We’ve been with Terex Trucks for years and we’re still as happy as we were with the trucks on the day we first became customers. The trucks are simple, reliable and durable. It’s a tough running vehicle so it’s very forgiving and works with very basic maintenance. I have colleagues who run other brands and from what I know is that if failures occur in their trucks it’s serious, but if a failure occurs in Terex Trucks’ haulers it’s a quick fix.”