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introducing a new drinking water system to its vehicles so that the porkers en route to market can enjoy a decent drink of Adam's ale; although they can only drink while the vehicle is stopped.
NPD transport manager Harold Storr says that his business is to move valuable breeding pigs around the UK and Europe and it is obviously in everyone's interest for those pigs to arrive in peak condition — hence the reason why his company introduced tail lifts to its fleet over 10 years ago. Its first trailer to be fitted with the drinker system has been built by Houghtons Parkhouse Coachworks and is hauled by a new [)AF 2800 tractive unit.
Great interest was shown when the unit was on public show at this year's National Pig Fair and. Storr comments, "The hydraulic tail lift and possibly even drinker systems will become essential to protect the pig producers' investment on its way to the processor."
How naive can a simple Hawk be? I thought it was the pigs they were looking after. Seriously, though, the system operates from a 250 litre (70 gal.) tank with 24 feeders (12 on each deck) for the 120 pigs carried.