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• by Bryan Jarvis Councils and contractors with underused skip trucks will be interested in this Terberg-inspired demountable container package, which can be adapted for
almost any chassis. Its demonstrator is a day-cabbed 3.9m Scania P94DB-220 4x2 with Hyva standard arm skip-gear and a 9.0m3 two-compartment container with a universal bin-lifter at the rear.
The container is split longitudinally, both sides served by a hopper with pneumatically operated flap to blank off the unused section. Wheelie or paladin bins containing, for example, cans and clear glass, fill up the relevant compartment and the skip is taken for emptying. With the diverter control
set to skip operation, jack legs are lowered and one section's back-flap locking pins are released. Hydraulic linkages raise the bin-lifter clear and skip arms pivot rearwards, so the container can be tilted and the box emptied, one side at a time.
For dismounting, the bin lift is closed, doors secured and hoses and cables disconnected. The arms then tilt the box to the ground, leaving the truck free for normal skip handling duties. To avoid bridge damage Hyva adds a "body up" audible and visible warning device as standard.
• CM has driven the vehicle, packaged at about £64.000 (including 138.000 for the Scania) around Harley in Surrey. Despite being almost 3.5m high, the unladen truck felt remarkably stable and on its 3,9m wheelbase highly manoeuvrable too. The demonstrator has toured northern England for potential customers and it is now being shown in the Home Counties.