Body variety for Biff a • Biffa Waste Service, part
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of Severn Trent, has acquired 11 multi-axled Scania rigids worth nearly £750,000 with a variety of body systems for retrieving trade waste. They all have Scania's lat est two-spring rear bogies. Three of the 6x4s have rear end waste loading bodies with bin lifting equipment by Dennis Eagle or Jack Allen; four of the eight-leggers have the larger Jack Allen system. The remainder are equipped with Reynolds Boughton or Lacre PDE hook lift equipment for ground loading large waste containers.
Biffa, which operates more than 600 heavy specialist waste vehicles, has also added a pair of Kaiser Combi jetvac units with water recycling, based on Renault and MAN chassis. These threein-one units have stainless steel tanks and hydraulically driven high-pressure jetting and vacuum units.
A hydraulically driven divider door allows selfcleaning and water recycling.