Raising the roof with a slim neck
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• Boalloy has joined the ranks of trailer manufacturers offering slim neck high volume trailers with lifting roofs. One of its early versions which is also on show at Telford has been developed with Ford for moving its car parts.
To work with tractor units with )w fifth wheels and give a 2.97m inner height within 4m overall, The Tautliner Mega chassis has a 75min neck, Because the deep, slim cantrails encase the pallets, the roof must raise by up to 500mm to load/unload. A hydraulic ram lifts it via cable and pulleys, powered by hand pump, air or electric motors.
&alloy also has a budgetprice, lighter kit version of its 7.5 tonne rigid curtainsider on display which it intends marketing on a franchise basis to smaller bodybuilders.
They in turn will build it, adding their own subframe, floor, sideguards, spray suppression and electrics or the complete job may also be built at Congleton.