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Between rain showers the Institute of Waste Management's annual display attracted the usual huge vehicle and equipment display as well as a large attendance from the industry. Gas-powered vehicles from iveco, Scania, Volvo and Seddon Atkinson showed how local authorities are reacting to environmental pressures: so far 32 have taken them on board, as have with 54 haulage companies.
Johnston, Haller, Faun and Scarab showed new sweepers—so did Jack Allen (which, because of its simmering feud with the WM show organisation, staged its own sizeable roadshow in the grounds of a nearby hotel). Most prominent were the new Leader refuse trucks, sweepers and a universal bin lifter design, all resplendent in Jack Allen green.
Report by Bryan Jarvis. Photography by Peter Cramer.
• This stylish Puncher dual-fuel waste collection vehicle is one of 20 working around Paris, running on diesel by day and battery power at night in sensitive areas. The French bodybuilder Ponticelli bases it on a 27-tonne GVW Renault 6x2 chassis with hydraulic rear steer, 210hp or 250hp 6.2-litre engine and Eaton eight-speed synchro box (with the electric drive routed via third gear). It adds the slippery looking cab and air deflector panels while Semat fits the CargoPac
• Merton has joined 32 local authorities, including seven London Boroughs, using gas-powered service vehicles; Iwo of the six Net° 190E22 refuse trucks it has ordered were on show at Torbay. The Fond-bodied EuroTech MT190E229/P 4x2s are a tonne heavier than usual because of the heavy gas cylinders. They feature lveco 9.5-litre CNG
engines and Allison MD3060PR automatic gearboxes with integral hydraulic retarders to boost engine braking. British Gas offshoot The Leasing Group supplied Merton's fast-fill station, helped by funding from the Energy Savings and Thermie Zeus trusts.
• Trafford Park, Manchester will be home for this Scania 124C 360 eight-legger. Its owner, Lavelle Waste Services, will soon have it earning its keep ferrying huge volumes of waste between transfer station and landfill sites. The 7.67m Wisbech Bulk smooth sider takes up to 55.2m3 and ejects with a Edbro 5-stage ram. To stop rubbish flying around WBS has fitted a Dawbarn Evertaut sheet.
• Volvo is testing reaction among likely UK gas truck users with this FL10 long-second steer 6x2 Norba bin emptier, currently on pre-production service trials in Gothenburg. It's powered by a 10-litre TG103KF spark-ignition, low-compression engine producing 245hp (184kW1 with 922Ibft (1,250Nm) of torque with low particulates and Nox emissions. A catalytic converter reduces hydrocarbons and CO pollutants. Five 100-lit re aluminium composite gas tanks mounted behind the cab store enough gas for 300km but add 400kg to a diesel truck's tare weight.
• Leeds City Council's direct services ordered six of these 8,200-litre gully emptiers, all on Dennis Elite 17-tonne GVW chassis, through Eon and Vallely Engineering's joint business initiative. Econ also showed how to quickly convert a pickup into a gritter capable of spreading 6m-wide paths in depots or distribution centres. The unit, which costs around £7,000, clamps into the pickup body with its support legs folded under. It's powered by a hand-start Honda engine and controlled by a wanderswitch routed through the cab window.
• Seddon's municipal range looks formidable with new sweepers, Iveco diesel or gasengined Pacers and EuroPacers, but it's the Leader that has attracted the Iveco group's interest. At the IWM it made its first appearance with bodywork: this 280hp 6x4 crew-cabbed variant has a Faun VarioPress. Nearby SA showed off a day-cabbed 6x4 Jack Allen demonstrator with 22m3 Heil Powerlink body with a one-step, walkthrough cab that is likely to interest other sectors too, such as the drinks or the food trade (see page 25). • Bath City council ordered this multi-bin-lift Merc 1117based Kerbsider from Will Engineer of Sheffield, a small family-owned specialist in recycling vehicles. It's the second For Bath and is able to lift four bins at once thanks to a clever over-centre hydraulic linkage system that prevents them clashing overhead. Full stillages are forklifted out.
• North Down District Council will find this Iveco 75E15 7.5tanner with its 6.5m3 MacPac 65 body useful for small rounds or emptying the odd missed bin. it can handle 120-1,280-litre bin loads through the nearside or can be handloaded from either side. It discharges through the rear using an ejector plate. MacLift also offers a larger (11m3) version for 10-12tonne chassis.
• This 6x2 Merc 2527-based one-man bin emptier with a demountable container is part of a new system developed by Schorrling for the German market. It can be operated as a rigid or drawbar using fixed, demount or hooklift container bodies. Schorrling, part of the Spanish Ros Roca Group, already has 16 standard refuse vehicles in service with Blackburn plant hire company Geo Noblet; now it plans to interest other UK waste operators with this drop-body system. • Marshall's innovative low-entry-cab truck results from its alliance with Partek Cargotec. With the Leader it challenges the Dennis Elite monopoly. Half the initial build of 50 have already been been ordered and more are likely, says Marshall. Air conditioning and refrigeration equipment is mounted behind the roof cowling. Rear-steer, mid-lift axles and air suspension are likely options; a 19tonne left-hand-drive version is under devel
opment. The low, walk-through cab lifts on twin rams for engine and side-mount cooling-system access: its 19' approach angle and steel belly plate suit it for site work. With traditional Cummins/Allison/Rockwell driveline options, a choice of Norbo and other makes of bodywork, and a stylish but practical walk-in cab, Marshall's latest is likely to win sales outside the municipal sector.
• Whale Tanker's latest Stepvac tanker has been streamlined at the front with its donkey engine, exhauster, compressor and other auxiliaries housed neatly in the nose compartment. Maintenance access is via the raising nose cone. This 25,000-litre version for Anglian Water can be stretched to handle 44 tonnes. • The Trio stand marked the show debut of the latest Telehoist RC-22 refuse collection vehicle. Built on a Scania P93 250 6x2 chassis, the body is flat-packed in from a Finnish manufacturer then assembled by RJ Engineering's Telehoist plant in Cheltenham. The 22m3 show model with its Otto bin lift went straight from Torbay to Trio's hire fleet.
• Wealden District council will soon be using this Lancashire Tippers-bodied Scania P94D 260 6x2 on its waste collection rounds. It's fitted with Terberg binlifts to the side and rear but before tipping the refuse out the rear door opens, courtesy of the rear lift's rather clever linkage system.
Walsall Borough Council has become the first operator of Seddon Atkinson's CNG-powered Pacer 255. The M26.255 has the 255hp Cummins 8.3 litre C-Series and Allison auto box with a retarder. Seddon also offers the Iveco gas engine. Either way it includes the High Line cab for better engine cooling with the six cylinders mounted behind the cab. Initially Walsall will fuel at BG's local terminal but the council plans to install its own gas station.
• Dennis Eagle's stand sported the facelifted Elite cab alongside existing models to show off its smart interior design. The changes bring the instrumentation and switch console right up to date while the dash panelling looks slimmer and less obstructive to driver and crew. A large display area seemed well justified by a 10.6m gas-powered 6x4 Elite destined for Glasgow's cleansing services. With its bulky gas bottle compartment 'iwixt cab and body its sheer length may pose manoeuvring problems for other Glaswegians.
(Lk Leyland Daf's municipal sales barely crept into double figures last year but the company believes there is growing demand for 6x2 refuse trucks. Its FAG 75.270 twin-steer chassis-cab with Longton crew-cab conversion is plated at 25.5 tonnes and complements LD's FAT 75.270 6x4 26-tonnerwhich is also available with full air suspension. The choice grows on...
• This enormous six-wheeled Kroll Disab vacuum cleaner can reputedly shift a tonne of dry sand in an hour so it isn't recom mended for cleaning carpets! It's based on a fully air suspended Scania 124G 400 with hydraulic rear steering and features catalytic exhaust cleaning (a Volvo Penta development) with every aperture filtered, including the blower exhaust. It's billed as a low-noise (75dB(A) at 7.0ml "environmental vacuum loader", but the Sweden manufacturer warns that you won't get much change out of £235,000. KD's UK customers include Jet Vac Systems of Port Talbot and Blue Circle Cement.
• T1P's latest venture, a 32-tonne 8x4 stainless steel tanker, looks a bit OTT for a sludge carrier, but being made of a thinner, lighter non-corroding material it does offer better payload and productivity. The 15,400-litre show model is one of six built for South West Water on Leyland Daf 85Series chassis by Allan Fuller of Chepstow. Two and threeaxled versions will also be available for hire or rental.
The Seddon Atkinson/Jack Allen Leader has many virtues; not least its excellent cab tilt angle and protective belly plate under the tapered front end. It's easily hosed out too. T1, cab lifts on twin rams to give unrestricted access tr Cummins C-Series engine, thanks largely to the ior the hydraulic fan and cooling pack behind the nearside. Crew access is via inward foldinr. side. They sit high up and are able to 5' around the vehicle but the air-susper,' central and on a level with pedest-
ator, John Allen, enthuses: "It' vehicle and will hasten the do.
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