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INTER/NODAL ANSWER... OR NIGHTMARE?
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• CMspoke to Colin Ess, UK sales manager for Schmitz's skeletal trailer products and industry expert on intermodal design, to see whether a 25.25m outfit would find favour amongst British operators? "We're talking about 'Stan Robinson Roacttrains' again!" says Ess. "I can't see there would be any problems of using them on restricted routes like motorways. If they can make it manoeuvrable then it would work in the UK—as long as it didn't need any fancy extendible couplings—we got rid of those on drawbars when we increased their length to 18.75m." According to Ess, a 25.25m concept would be most likely used by UK hauliers for shifting 20 or 40ft boxes. "The short [7.82m1 swap body has newer really caught on in the UK at all SO it would probably best suit ISO containers—though the twist locks are all in the right place. You can't get two 7.82m swap bodies on the trailer but you can one on the rigid. I can see It has some potential—most [intermodal] wagon and drags already pull two 20ft boxes."
Ess reckons the concept of longer vehicles certainty deserves more consideration. "I can't see why the Robinson roadtrain idea isn't given more time."