Common ground for tippers?
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TIPPER operators have for years been accusing manufacturers of not building the vehicles they need. Representatives of Leyland at an RHA tipper convention (Tipcon) in Blackpool some years ago were perhaps the first to meet their massed critics face to face and, I recall, emerged the worse for wear.
But the encounter stimulated discussion between several makers and the RHA and there have been lasting benefits. Now the Association is sponsoring a market-research project to try to find out exactly what tipper operators want in chassis and bodies.
It is a development from a paper presented at the 1980 convention by Tony Wilding, a former technical editor of Commercial Motor. He and Richard Booth, his partner in the consultancy, CV Marketing Support, will present the results of the survey at the next Tipcon in Harrogate.
Can such sturdy individualists as hauliers agree on a generally acceptable specification?