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• Don-Bur's Cover-Haul sliding-canopy body system, which is based on its coil carrying trailers, is finding favour with a range of operators including the brewery sector.
The first 4.25m-long minidray versions, developed with Bass Brewers for delivering beer and soft drinks into confined areas, will be used at Bass's Exeter depot.
Four have been mounted on 3.25m-wheelbase Leyland Daf 45-Series chassis for operation at 7.5 tonnes. The folding cover is level with the 2.45m-high cab roof and is 2.2m wide.
Using vertical and horizontal rollers running on steel tracking it opens smoothly to a retracted depth of 760nun. When closed it secures with over-centre catches at each end. A self-fur ling curtain is added at the rear of the alloy platform body.
Four heavy-duty 6.1m versions — three on existing Leyland Daf Freighters, one on a new 60-Series chassis for Scunthorpe haulier Ericsson — will carry high-value loads for BT. They are equipped with Hiab cranes.