peirre:
I’ve even had situations where I’ve needed to get a replacement trailer number plate, so the “Borg” writes out a defect note, hands it to me and says take this to the garage and get one made up. But the garage who did the R&M for them was 20+ miles away. But yet on the same site albeit a separate contract, in their fleet office 100yds away from the Borg they had the necessary equipment to make the number plate I needed
I’m lucky on that front 
because we have private plates ,the fitter just goes in to his cupboard to a pile of old number plates and hey presto he usually has an old one of that reg in there from a long gone truck