Fletliner speeds brick deliveries
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A NEW system of brick distribution, using standard rail Freightliner wagons, is now in use by the London Brick Company.
Developed by the LBC and Freightliners, the new 'Fletliner' system is operated from a new £200,000 terminal at Stewartby, Beds. The equipment consists stack gantries fitted to each of LBC's six-wheeled trucks and specially designed flats, with plastic sides.
Each Freightliner wagon can carry three flats and each flat together with its load weighs 15 tons. At the terminal the loaded flat is lifted on an LBC six-wheeler and then the bricks unloaded by the stack by the Selfstaker at the final distribution is carried out by the Fletliner and it is claimed that this saves about 300,000 tons of diesel fuel. It is hoped to increase the use of Fletliner to about 20 per cent of total brick distribution within the next five years.
Another claim is that there is a reduction in damage of the load but at a demonstration last week a Selfstaker dropped its stack of bricks.