The new Scania has a 450bhp, automated transmission and full-spec R sleeper cab. Its 6x2 lift axle chassis has a custom-built, 7.5m platform body built around pressed steel with a hardwood floor.
For lifting, it is equipped with a 54 tonne/metre Fassi crane, mounted in front of the heavy-duty steel headboard.
The Charlton body is designed to give Webster Miller maximum versatility, so it has multiple lashing points and twistlocks, an underfloor storage locker for chains, a nylon fall-arrest system, lightweight aluminium waterproof toolboxes, a lift-up rear under-run bar, a drawbar coupling for trailer towing and flashing LED warning lights.
The body also features a 1,525mm rear pull-out to enable it to carry 30ft containers.
With the chassis also featuring 385/65 ‘wide single’ tyres to its uprated front axle and low profile tyres on the drive, the resulting lower deck height makes both loading and access easier while also improving on-road stability by reducing the truck’s centre of gravity.
Webster Miller director Simon Steptoe says: “This new truck certainly pushes our business another step forward. We’re great believers in having the best possible kit for what we do.
“The Scanias are superb – the drivers love them, they’re reliable, economical to operate and ultmately give us the best possible residual value. Self-evidently therefore, we’re also going to fit them with top quality bodywork.
“Charlton is supreme in this respect, not just for the finished product but equally for the fact that we can sit down with Charlton and put together a specification that’s ideal for any particular truck or operating requirement… Charlton makes the whole package complete.”