Reefers head IRHA display The exhibition that accompanies the IRHA
Page 22
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
conference might still be small but it's growing. Reefer trailers were particularly plentiful (and all displayed in suitably freezing conditions) but there were many other items of interest on display. Robin Meczes reports.
• This is one of 60 refrigerated trailers supplied earlier this year by Lamberet to Musgrave for its Centra supermarket chain. The contract value of about £3m is the largest single order ever placed for reefer trailers in Ireland, believes Lamberet general manager Keith Howard. Running on Mentor (formerly ROR) axles and fitted with Ross & Bonnyman tail-lifts, the units are all multi-drop, multi-compartment trailers with longitudinal dividers and lateral moving bulkheads. The fridge unit is a specially made, dual-discharge Thermo King SB III DE unit, allowing ambient, chilled and frozen goods to be carried simultaneously. • Apart from the new curtainsider supplied to Commercial Motor Ireland for tractive unit roadtests, Dennison was also showing a stepframe bulk tipper fitted with an aluminium Kelly body, Hyva tipping ram and Mentor axles. Featuring a front lift axle and designed for a fifth wheel height of 1,250mm, it has an external width of 2.55m and a volume of 58yd3 (44m3). Price is around 1R£23,000, according to Jonathan Dennison, who adds that the company is just delivering the last three of an order for nine to Nielsen & Sorensen in Germany for the transport of bulk foodstuffs.
• Jordan Commercials was showing a range of Spanish-made SOR trailers including one of 14 reefers fitted with Thermo King SMX II SR refrigerating units supplied recently to Keenan International Transport of Dandalk. Also on display was this 13.6m reefer, one of four SP71 trailers supplied to McGrave Transport of County Donegal. Fitted with a moving bulkhead and Carrier's Maxima 2 refrigeration unit, it sits on BPW running gear. More than 50 have been sold in Ireland in the past eight months, says Gerard Jordan. • As a major sponsor of the event, Daf had most of its range on show including 95XF and 85 Series 4x2 tractors, an 85 Series 8x4, two 65 Series 4x2s, and two 45 Series 4x2 rigids. Only the 75 Series was unrepresented. Also on show was this Daf 95XF 430 belonging to Piggotts Eggs of Gort, County Galwry.
Another of the many reefers on display was this Chereau, the 500th sold into Ireland. The 13.6m triaxle unit has a Thermo King SMX II fridge, Mentor running gear and Jost landing legs. It was recently supplied by International Trailers of Bagenalstown, County Carlow, to Billy Dillon of Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford. • Weighing in at 7,000kg and also available in a version weighing 1,000kg less, this Samro curtainsided semi-trailer, distributed in the UK and Ireland by Kinsella Trailer Sales of Corey, County Wexford, has a sliding roof for loading by gantry crane and dropside sidewall construction to hold loads more securely. Cost is between £20,500 and £23,500, depending on spec. Also on show from Kinsella was an Aubineau reefer trailer on a Samro chassis and Mentor axles. Fitted with a Thermo King SMX fridge, the unit offers 2.6m internal height, a 45mm-thick wall and internal width of 2.47m. It tares out at 8,800kg.