Stoneywood Motors bounces back from disaster 28 May 2010

Vehicle recovery specialist Stoneywood Motors has emerged from a torrid time, following an arson attack on its Sowerby Bridge headquarters, with new recovery trucks from Roger Dyson Group.

Criminals caused £1.5 million-worth of damage when they struck last December, destroying nine recovery units and service vans, as well as several customers' vehicles.

The new trucks include Stoneywood's first vehicle fitted with Dyson's Hydraloader SLa (super-low approach) slideback body, which has a load angle of 4.9 degrees.

That vehicle is based on a 12-tonne gvw Renault Midlum 220.12 crew cab chassis, with rear air suspension. The HR5000 body comes with a steel deck (although SLa units are also available in light-weight aluminum) and has 5,000kg capacity, single lever and remote-radio controls, and a spectacle lift for recovering a second vehicle.

Stoneywood is also running a pair of new 7.5-tonne Mitsubishi Fuso Canter 7C15Ds with Double crewcabs. Both have Roger Dyson Enforcer 2,500kg capacity two-wheel lift bodies, with radio-remote controlled power tilt booms and storage lockers – bringing to seven, the number of Canter-based Enforcers on the fleet.

And finally, there's a 3,000kg Hydraloader HR3000 La (low approach) aluminum slidebed with a second vehicle lift, built on a used 7.5-tonne Iveco Eurocargo chassis, supplied by Stoneywood for conversion.

Author
Brian Tinham

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