Keep on trucking


Chai and a mixer truck his company makes. — Photos: YAP CHEE HONG/The Star

It’s been one long uphill climb for Chai Yoon Choong, who went into the business of making cement mixer trucks in 1997 with no engineering qualification and hardly any capital. But he’s still standing today and still delivering, he tells LIM WING HOOI.

YOU would need self-belief by the truckload and maybe a litre of Kool-Aid to do what Datuk Chai Yoon Choong, 48, did — get into the engineering business without an engineering background.

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