Dow drawbars for Italy
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• Dow is now operating four specially-converted drawbars on Italian routes to join the existing ten 12.2-metre tilt trailers per week it already runs there.
The new drawbars offer greater capacity for groupage — 110m3 against the 65m3 previously available, and are hoped to attract high-bulk lowweight loads like shoes and textiles.
Using MAN 16-240 chassis, Dow has carried out conversions costing £27,000 each, modifying engines and suspensions and adding tilt bodies to both trucks and trailers.
111 Two heat exchangers, one weighting 42 tonnes, the other 57 tonnes, were moved along the M62 and M57 from Oldham to Liverpool within 24 hours by Dow Freight Forwarding, en route for Norway.
For the 57-tonne 15x3.5 metre diameter exchanger, Dow used a Scania 142E triaxle tractive unit with a Nooteboom four-axle low loader with single-axle jeep dolly. The 42-tonne exchanger was moved on a Scania 14211 triaxle tractor with a tri-axle Transquip low loader.