Loads of vehicle approval European Whole Vehicle Type Approval (EWVTA)
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has started to affect the manufacture of multistage vehicles in earnest now — and forward-thinking bodybuilders have responded by getting ahead of the game. Fuller Tankers (4F120), for example, is showing its Fuller Recycler Machine, a 2,900 gallon recycling unit based on a Volvo FM 6x2 that is already EWVTA compliant and is also available in an 8x4 version. Similarly, SB Components (5A40) will be displaying an EWVTA-approved 3.5-tonne Sprinter chassis cab designed for Travis Perkins, fitted with an aluminium dropside body and column tail-lift.
Trailer producers won't be all that plentiful at the show but Gray & Adams (5D136) will be there, presenting what it says is the industry's first 44-pallet refrigerated double-decker, produced for food storage and distribution specialist Reed Boardall. And Paneltex (5C110) will be unveiling a new 9.2m urban reefer trailer, one of a number of refrigerated trailers supplied to Musgrave Retail Partners for its Londis and Budgens retail distribution fleet.