Rugby confident in MAN
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Rugby Cement says it is confident in running four MAN trucks as it awaits the results of an internal investigation into how they were sold. Engineers for the company looked at the 6x2s to check they had not been modified in a dangerous fashion by an MAN dealership in Sheffield (CM 17 June). At least one other unit is alleged to have been modified in this way.
It is alleged that employees of the dealership removed brake shoes, drums and an anti-roll bar from at least one 6x2 unit to satisfy Rugby's weight limit of 7.7 tonnes GVW and so secure the sale of the trucks.
The weight of the tractors in service is 300kg above Rugby's specified maximum— a difference which would leave the owner-drivers who run them out of pocket on each load they delivered for the company.
CMwas originally told that MAN's investigation into the matter would take around four weeks, but the results could be ready sooner.
A spokesman for Rugby Cement says: "We are now waiting for them to come back to us. We are confident they are addressing the issue."