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Neville flips for Norba
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• George Neville Transport Safety Systems has modified its Flipsider pivot ting cover system for a Norba ejection bodied ERF 8x4 belonging to Thetford-based Anti-Waste.
The device, with its framed nylon mesh covers, is manually operated from ground level using cranked handles on either side.
The covers flip over through 270° via angle-drive gearboxes at each top corner and rotating shafts running in the top sections. When fully closed, they overlap and rest on short support bars.
A typical system for a 6.0m body costs in the region of £1,500.
Anti-Waste sees the device as a way of containing loose waste from flying off and helping the driver to sheet down in safety from ground level. If damage from careless loaders can be avoided, its other three ejector-bodied trucks may well be converted too.
West Yorkshire Waste Management, which coordinates refuse collections in five metropolitan districts, is trying a similar device on one of its open-topped Rolonofhandled waste containers.
WYWM engineer Brian Ellis has initiated the move for the same reasons: operator safety and litter reduction.