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• Nene Valley Waste reports that it has specified Dunlop rubber for its latest vehicle, a 32-tonne Seddon Atkinson 8x4 tipper.
David Cling°, who specifies the fleet, explains: "Fitting SP331 premium highway tyres to a truck's front axles offers important advantages, particularly in safety-related areas.
"At the rear it is a different story. Tyres for powered wheels need to be optimised for traction on soft and broken surfaces and especially resistant to sidewall damage. The dual-purpose SP811 has been designed to meet precisely such difficult operating conditions," Managing director Richard Clews adds: "What we have to do is to try and get the most costeffective tyres possible when judged over the whole operating spectrum of both the landfill and waste collection sides of the busi 'less. To date, Dunlop tyres give us the best possible potential to do just that."