Lightweight truck and tipping gear solve problem for W Rolls 08 December 2010

W Rolls Transport reports achieving extra capacity on its latest 20-tonne eight-wheeler, thanks to Edbro's CX14 lightweight tipping gear and an Aliweld Highsider aluminium tipper body.

John Bartlett, who owns the Somerset-based firm, says the result is a vehicle capable of making longer distance and larger haulage jobs more commercially competitive.

"You have to have the right rig to maximise payload and offer competitive rates while remaining profitable," comments Bartlett.

"Lots of specialist hauliers will only deliver locally, or offer a competitive rate on short distances. But we specialise in reaching anywhere in the UK 24/7, so the trucks and the tipping equipment we use have to be able to operate reliably over longer distances," he explains.

Add to this a specialisation in moving low density, high volume materials, such as woodchip, and it's easy to see why Bartlett focuses on lightweight and capacity, when specifying tipper trucks.

And hence Aliweld's 7ft 3in Highsider, with 40m3 capacity and hand welded construction – claimed to be the lightest bulk volume truck body on the market.

Side ribs also make it one of the strongest – meaning that W Rolls can also carry heavy materials, such as grain, simply by filling the body to its 20t payload and leaving space on the truck.

Hence also the Edbro CX14 tipping cylinders – specified so that the light weight benefits of the truck body were not cancelled out by heavy tipping gear.

In this case, the body and its tipping gear have been mounted on a new Renault 8x4, the first Renault 460dxi Lander to be sold in the UK. Equipped with a 460hp Volvo engine and running gear dual sourced from Volvo, it's a useful combination, according to Bartlett, who says his entire rig cost £80,000 complete with its Aliweld body.

With this latest vehicle, Bartlett has now bought 15 new trucks in the space of 16 years, and has plans to add more to his fleet. He already has two Aliweld six- wheelers, but the new Renault is his first eight- wheeler, just giving that extra bit of capacity.

Author
Brian Tinham

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