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Landfill sites call the tune
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UK or Irish-spec moving-floor trailers are completely different to those products sold on the other side of the Channel by Legras, says export sales manager Olivier Broye, and they have to be to survive British landfill sites and landfill operators.
"We add reinforcements to the floor, reinforcements to the top raves, wearing panels along the side walls," he says. "And the towing eye is not the same. That's another difference in the UK—you never see them in France!" But then UK waste artics have a habit of bogging down in primitive landfill sites and need a rather rough tug to get them unstuck. By way of contrast, Broye reports: "In France you've got a concrete surface as much as possible." Lucky them...
If UK landfill sites were improved then British waste hauliers wouldn't need such robust kit or suffer from so much damage. And it doesn't take a genius to work out that if waste trailers didn't have to be built like brick outhouses they'd carry more revenuegenerating payload.
"I imagine there are some operators who are really prepared to improve things," says Broye. But the first priority is to get the business—that's understandable. But we can't make miracles with trailers. We had this same experience in France with bad landfill sites and bad landfill site operators."
Legras UK national sales manager John Hunt stresses that Legras' experience in the British market has resulted in the French trailer maker steering away from a 'one-size-fits-all' spec: "Every trailer we build is built to the customer's spec. We don't build bog standard trailers, we build what the customer wants."