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Whelan puts glass-lined tanker to the acid test

27th June 1996, Page 22
27th June 1996
Page 22
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• Whelan Environmental, which processes and transports industrial chemicals, has taken the first of a new design of triaxled aluminium hazardous waste tanker trailers.

Whelan is based in Birmingham with depots in the Midlands and the North-East. It wanted more payload in an acid waste carrier than the 20-22 tonnes of its 20 steel artic tankers. Thompson Carmichael came up with the answer in the form of a glass-lined 26.000-litre trailer.

Features include: acid-proof polypropylene valves and pipework: a rear door covering three-quarters of the overall diameter; a hydraulically driven exhauster, and an on-board weighing system.

According to Whelan's operations director Chris Williamson, the Cornhill-approved semitrailer promises an early return on the capital invested.