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"It's more expensive than a single trailer, but you get the extra flexibility."
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Bernard Hushion
unusual for customers to refuse to take delivery of (or unload) the rear box first, either because it isn't booked in or because the driver is delayed. "Running with a single heavy box on the back of a drawbar trailer is unacceptable as far as I'm concerned when it comes to stability—that's why I won't run them," he says.
However, with the Combitrailer it's still possible to run with a box at the back by lifting the trailer's front three axles, thereby ensuring the maximum load is still placed over the kingpin regardless of the box's position—providing it is not too heavy. Due to the axle spacing regs Graves advises: "You can't run more than 14 tonnes with just the front section."
A number of major intermodal groups have already expressed an interest in the Combitrailer, including Carters, which already has one operating in its fleet.