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• A trailer which allows a 6x 4 vehicle to carry two tonnes more than an 8x4, yet costs £770 less in road fund licence, is being used by haulier JF Pearce & Sons of Radstock, Avon.
Distributor Mike Gauntlett Truck Equipment, of Chipping Sodbury, says that drivers of vehicles drawing the single-axle trailer have found that they can get into awkward building sites where eight-wheelers have been turned away.
Pearce's Foden S106T 6x4 tractive unit with air suspension was stretched to take a 5.3m platform body with the 8.5m Atlas crane behind. A VBG 620 coupling was fitted to take the 3.8m, 10-tonne GVW Truckmate flatbed trailer.
HTW Gay, the trailer builder, has just completed a tandem-axle version of the trailer to take up to 16 tonnes and which will have a 4.5m flatbed body. As with all HTW trailers it has been custom-built to suit the hauliers' particular requirements. Parsons Transport of Westbury, which ordered the trailer, will use it to transport concrete blocks drawn by a 6x4 rigid.