While many/most countries don't have the "big truck" culture that the US does (i.e. 1/2 ton through 1 ton trucks being commonly used for regular personal transport), the UK in particular seems to have adapted to using smaller trucks and less "stuff" in general to get a remarkable amount done. From what I have seen, even 1 ton+ service trucks like we are used to are quite rare there, even for heavy equipment dealers. They tend to use vans similar to nickjj is using. No cranes, often no air or power other than what is available at the site, and no carrying 10k lbs of tools around to every single job. There was an awesome thread on a heavy equipment forum by a guy from the UK who was an independent heavy equipment mechanic. His specialty was big jobs on Cat equipment, especially older non-high drive dozers and the like including big ones up to D9 size. On these, getting into the finals and rear end is quite a project- pulling massive sprockets and bull gears, driving out huge track pins. But this guy worked exclusively out of the back of his Land Rover Defender (the original version, of course, that they stopped making several years ago). That's all he had used his entire career. No real power tools of any kind- big bolts were tackled with torque multipliers or using a sledge, hoist or other piece of equipment (like an excavator bucket) on the end of a slugging breaker bar. Used the old school Cat hand pumped hydraulic track press with all sorts of factory and homemade adapters to remove and install parts requiring 100+ tons of force. Now I'm not sure everyone over there is like him, but I did get the distinct impression that his approach is far less of an outlier than it would be in the US, for instance.
