Boalloy front-running rails for Liverpool
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• Boalloy has built five Tautliner semi-trailers with a Ushape rail that enables the curtains to be pulled around the front of the bulkhead when the vehicle is being loaded.
The development gives the operator an extra 1.5 metres of access from the side and means that the driver or attendant does not have to hold the curtain when the vehicle is being loaded, says Boalloy.
The five 12.2 metre, 32tonne GVW semi-trailers have been supplied to Transport Development Group subsidiary
Liverpool Warehousing, which is using them on a contract with RIZ in Widnes to carry 12-metre long extrusions.
Boalloy is now converting others.
The track is extended around the front of the vehicle in a radius of 0.6 metres.
They are not the first curtainsiders Boalloy has built with front-running rails, but the others have only been experimental and have not gone into full production, admits managing director Gerald Broadbent.