Ermin Plant Hire buys 26-tonne Andover trailer 30 November 2012

A Mercedes-Benz Axor 6x2 truck, mounted with an Andover Trailers plant body, with double-cranked beavertail and fuel-saving fold-forward ramps, is the latest addition to Ermin Plant Hire's fleet.

The Gloucester-based company's rear-steer rigid – which features front and rear air suspension – replaces a 1996 M-registration truck, also equipped with an Andover Trailers plant body, and will operate across the company's six depots.

It joins a 28-strong commercial vehicle fleet used to deliver more than 3,000 items of plant and tools to customers across an area spanning Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and South Wales.

The 9.3m body has been finished with a hardwood floor with 1m wide x 2.5m long hydraulic fold-forward ramps, which can be lowered flat onto the deck to minimise aerodynamic drag on the road.

Hydraulic steady legs ensure a stable platform when loading and unloading plant, while a remote radio-control Ramsey BH550 hydraulic winch has been mounted on the front bulkhead to assist with loading.

The Axor is being used to deliver Ermin Plant Hire's largest items of plant, which range from eight tonne excavators to telehandlers, forklifts, boom lifts, cherry pickers and dump trucks.

"Our previous Andover Trailers plant bodies have performed well and lived up to the demands of making multiple deliveries each day," says Neil Jones, operations director at Ermin Plant Hire.

"The design team built the body to our precise specifications, so it's a perfect match for our requirements."

Author
John Challen

Related Companies
Andover Trailers Ltd
Mercedes-Benz UK Ltd

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