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SWISS SHOW SWISH TRUCKS
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It's self-evident that transport legislation has a direct effect on vehicle design. In Switzerland the trend is towards powerful, premiumspecification eightleggers with demount bodies— but that didn't stop the Geneva show offering an impressive variety of CVs and components.
• The amount of demountable equipment at Geneva suggests that Swiss operators are keener than most to get the maximum possible use from the minimum possible number of chassis.
Influenced no doubt by Switzerland's high VED rates, 28-tonne gross weight limit and Alpine conditions, highpowered eight-wheeler chassis generally carry relatively small bodies. Demount systems on show included cement mixers, tipping equipment and refuse containers.
Typical of the swaps exhibited was the rear tipping aluminium body from Metanova of Cressier.
Weighing nearly 2,500kg, it elevates on four hydraulic rams attached to the chassis, allowing the legs to be inserted into square holes in the body frame. Metanova builds about 100 such tippers annually.
Other elevating swap systems included models that tipped three ways.
A vertical-panelled 23.4m3 silo body from Amriswil-based !Crap AG is designed to tip or blow-discharge food-stuffs.
With the pump, blower and screw-type aeration system, the Scania P93 provides payloads in excess of 7.0 tonnes at the Swiss 16-tonne limit for two-axled rigids.
Swiss jobbing builders will appreciate the loading versatility and around 1.25tonne payload provided by the short Emil Frey aluminium tipper body and crane mounted on a 3.5-tonne Toyota Dyna 150. The Safenwil-based company built the alloy dropside body and added the Hiab 015-2 electrohydraulic jib which can lift 740kg at 2.0m and, with its extension, will lift 370kg to 4.0m.
A 38.6m3 removals semitrailer from GK Grunnenfelder of Kriessern is an example of the lightness and volume essential at below 7.5 tonnes. Complete with
500kg tail-lift from Mercedes subsidiary MBB, the 7.67mlong aluminium box van with its marine ply floor and hightensile steel subframe weighs just 1,760kg. A Toyota Dyna 150 is used by the customer, Sitagh, as the prime mover.
Moser AG's 33m3 splitcompartment body uses a neoprene sealing, moveable bulkhead to maintain —20°C in the front section. It slides on near-full-length tracking with simple locking mechanisms and, like the sides, is of 45mm GRP panels.
Chilled temperatures are maintained in the rear compartment which closes via an insulated top flap and 1.5tonne aluminium tail-lift from MIC (France), which is part of the Jungheinrich group.
Gangloff of Berne builds its insulated fold-out bodies for Swiss breweries and drinks manufacturers to an 11-yearold design from Peters of West Germany, but it is developing its own folding-side system.
Unlike the present design, which extends out and on to the top section, the new version will fold up and into the roof. It will also be lighter and cheaper than the current show model, which cost over £20,000 for the 7.0m body on display and weighed 1,700kg
complete with Dautel tail-lift. A portable Heller freezer unit was fitted for show purposes. A British bodybuilder is believed to be interested in producing the new version under licence.
0 Rieser of Geneva showed examples of its elevation roll on/off body equipment with a neat all-aluminium demountable system for small waste collection vehicles.
With its electro-hydraulic operation, fabricated hook arm and lightweight aluplanked waste bin, the system is well suited for working in urban areas.
Magyar's machineburnished 8,500-litre milk tanker demonstrates why Swiss dairy produce costs an arm and a leg. Built by Ewison AG of Burgdorf onto a Daf 3300 ATi, it has a computerised milk sampling and recording system contained in a separate airconditioned section in the heated control cabinet on the right-hand side.
The roller shutter doors open normally with pressure switches, but close automatically on park brake release.
With video cameras mounted on the cab door and rear of the tank, and pulling a 10,000-litre trailer, it looks a sophisticated outfit — and one which will leave very little change out of £255,000.
Nonetheless, Ewison has built nearly 100 such combinations to date, half with the new milk sampling system.
Frech-Hoch of Sissachs' 12.94m GRP reefer with extrawide axle spread is built to carry 30-pallet/14.5 tonne payloads within the Swiss 28tonne threshold.
Its turntable rear axle steers via rods set behind the chassis rails and linked to the kingpin assembly to keep the outfit within the turning corridor of 5.5m inner/12m outer radii.
The FHS body's raised rear end is 10cm higher to accept the top-hung door runners. BPW air suspension has a lift/ lower capability to deal with awkward dock loading through the Henderson rear shutter.
FHS has modified its patent levered locking landing legs to accept operating levers at both sides.