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• Heavy rain showers failed to deter waste watchers, shifters and processors from what looked to be the largest Institute of Waste Management show to date. It had a busy, confident air about it and on this showing may be about to outgrow its Paignton venue. The present contract only has a year to run and rumours abound on other likely venues. Recycler vehicles may be flavour of the month with the environmentalists but one-manoperation vehicles and three-man crewc-abs are more likely to have cost-conscious operators reaching for their chequebooks.
There was a variety of improved crewimbs on show but Seddon Atkinson's Iveco-built version was the freshest and looks an important feature on its
new range of municipals. Leyland Daf Vans is busily rebuilding its dealer network, following the recent management buyout from the receiver. It continues to take substantial orders; the latest is for 130 vans and minibuses from Salisbury rental company Churchfields. Leyland Daf Trucks, bought from the receivers from Daf NV, showed its revised, straightbacked 50-Series crewcab on an FA50.180 with LD's latest 134kW (180hp) 624-litre NS133I, chargecooled engine. The cab has more headroom than before and an upper frontal window. The show vehicle sported a 13m3 Norba body. Businesses come and go. News broke at the show that I leysham-based Aspinall Engineering which makes Garwood refuse trucks had gone into receiver
ship. But French company Semat, which claims 48% of its home market and promotes Dennis and other UK truck chassis in France, has set up a sales and service operation in Greenford, Middx.
Another new company, MO (UK) of Tonbridge, Kent, is to market cut-price Yugoslavianmade refuse body systems. It already has a vehicle on trial with a local council. Dennis Eagle displayed a range of Elite chassis-cabs, including the first narrow track 6x2 rigid with long-link-secondaxle steering. It was built for Cory Environmental with the 186kW (250hp) Perkins Peregrine engine and a Phoenix xml5 body system. Elites are also used as tankers, road surfacers and even aircraft support vehicles. Forte recently ordered 14 with low, flat-topped Elite cabs on LWB chassis and scissor-lift aircraft catering bodies: two will be used at Amsterdam's Schipol airport. There was the usual display of goodies from the Jack Allen group including a bigger (31m3) Big Bite compactor body for 32tonne GVW eightleggers; a Heil Waste-Hoist side loader system for one-man operation; and a Heil Recytler body.
Automatic
This automatic system can handle twin containers at each side, emptying them into the horizontallysplit compactor body. Bins are steadied during lifting by a neat vacuum pad system.
A special 2.9m-wheelbase
7.5-tonne Iveco Ford Cargo chassis featured yet another JA starlet, the 2.0-tonne payload Back Packer body system. Designed for one-man operation on bottle bank or other collection work it uses a container suited for fork arm loading. When filled it is exchanged for an empty body and parked to be collected later by a front/rear-end loader truck. Having bought the rights to the patented scissor-dixred Britannia cab, Seddon has effectively filled that gap in the market with its new Ivecoson rced cabin. It looks spacious and sturdier than the ageing Seddon cab, offering a wider, lower crew entry and more interior height. By August it will have a one-piece door that pivots into the A-post—the driver's door will be profiled over the steps. Yet another twin-steer 6x2 rigid appeared on Boughton's stand, fitted with 26m3 packer body and driver-operated extendible bin pick-up arm for one-man operation. The first LHD P93 Scania sold into the municipal market is in service with Windsor & Maidenhead; a similar model on a RI-ID Mercedes 6x2 is going back to waste management company Altwater in Germany.
Power-to-weight
There were new 13-tonne and 17tonne 4x4s on the Mercedes UK stand, alongside a 4.2m 6x4 2524 with MacKrill hookloader gear. It's designed to replace the 2422 in the rear compactor/tanker markets, where a high power-toweight ratio is unecessary, and features a camshaft-driven PT-O. Merc's new 3234K 32-tonne eight-legger chassis offers 254kW (340hp) from a chargecooled vee-six instead of the naturally aspirated vee-eight and saves weight in the process. Another truck maker breaking new ground is ERF, showing its first refuse vehicle to enter service in Scotland. The 6x4 E6.21, with a 22m3 Norba RI.22 body and 7,oller bin lift, is one of three for Monklands district council, Scarab continues to adapt its hydrostatic drive system for sweeper vehicles to cover most popular chassis; most recently the 14-tonne GVW Major 7000equipped Volvo FI,614. which
was built for Londonderry Garages on a 3.4m wheelbase.
The system uses main engine power to provide normal road speeds between sites and infinitely variable road speeds upto 10Imi/h when sweeping.
Renault had a Scarab-equipped Midliner 13-tonner on show with a pair of rigid chassis with ACS (Automatic Clutch System) transmission. One of them, a 17-tonne G220 Manager with 15m3 Norba refuse collector body, is the first into service; it has joined Hambleton Dictrict Council's fleet. Renault says ACS costs nearly 16,000 less than an equivalent Allison; it can also be fitted to ZF boxes.
Waste continues to be a growth business, which is why Four Point Hire has bought five Foden 6x4 tractors and six highvolume waste trailers from Wisbech Bulk Systems and Boughton.
The 3+2 outfits will operate on landfill sites under contract to Bedfordshire County Council. WBS's all-aluminium show trailer, the first of five, runs on squat 425/70R 22.5 Michelins and has Flip Top covers to prevent loose waste flying about Mother manufacturer to major on aluminium contruction is Leeds-based Valle] y Engineering.
A lightweight 26,000-litre rnon000que tanker trailer on SDC running gear frame is the first of its new range—it promises payloads upto 25 tonnes.
Vacuum tanker
Vallely's Foden 4325 8x4-based heavy-duty vacuum tanker is a 20,000-litre unit built for sister company Tanker Hire with a new rear door design.
It lifts for tipping via a single internal hydraulic ram, taking the lights and rear underrun bar with it. A neat drop-down rear step allows easy access to the tank for cleaning. A 360-litre chassis-mounted aluminium water tank matches the fuel tank, but all other bolt-on items are hot-dip galvanised.
This is the first Foden into Tanker Hire's fleet; it offers payloads of 19 tonnes.
CI by Bryan Jarvis