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Its been 16 months since Oliver Dixon of Environmental Trailer
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Hire (Eli-I) showed a moving floor trailer at the Harrogate Tip-Ex convention, boldly claiming that it could deliver very hot asphalt as well as other quarried materials, and promising 45% more payload (eight tonnes) compared to the industry standard insulated eight-wheeler.
It was an attractive prospect — being able to deliver asphalt straight into Barber Greene hoppers, with minimal heat-loss en route, and affording the road layers longer surfacing runs or were there any worries about overturning in high winds, catching overhanging trees, bridges, telephone wires or, worst of all, power cables, With Tarmac's backing (turn to analysis on p15to find out what Tarmac thinks of the moving floor trailers), Dixon researched Keith Walking Floor's use of revised heavy duty V-floors for carrying out asphalt Since many road repair contracts come with time penalties, road closures or contraf lows, operators such as Leyburn-based Tony Byker are constantly looking for ways to improve productivity.
Byker is a transport co-ordinator with Cemex on the Dishforth to Leeming Services Al third lane upgrade in North Yorkshire.
Over the next three to five years. the work will need a huge amount of aggregates, but with rigid tippers in short supply, Byker is considering moving floors as a way to speed things up. "They promise an extra 7.5-tonne-plus payload over an eight-wheeler, and if they can carry asphalt as well as other quarried materials, so much the better," he says, He's currently in talks with Wilcox over specification, which focuses on Keith's Running Floor 2 with Clean Sweep system. Byker is satisfied that it can handle dry stone materials, but is slightly apprehensive about its ability to handle hot asphalt, especially the very gooey mixes.
But Wilcox understands moving floor technology, having built many over the years, and sales director Chris Bartlett is confident about its latest designs for handling tar-mix products and aggregates.
The most recent ones, based on Wilcox's own lightweight, full-length chassis, include nine 95m3 GP bulkers for Hargreaves with Keith's Running Floor 2 discharge, four similar ones for Bulk Freight, but with high-impact flooring, and four extra heavy-duty examples for Fred Sherwood. These have the quicker, heavy-duty Keith floor, profiled top-rails and Dawbarn's latest hydraulic netting system