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The first operator to use Tridec's latest LV-0 trailer suspension
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is double-deck trailer enthusiast Emons Cargo of Bennigen, in the Netherlands.
Emons director Edward Poelmans acknowledges the early influence of Wilson Double-Deck which led it to adopt this concept back in 1986, when pallet heights increased from 1,400mm to 1,800mm.
When the Northern Ireland manufacturer went out of the trailer business during the mid-1990s Ernons took a serbus interest in locally built double decks, and two years ago it developed its own dry-freight specification.
Designed to suit the group's international transport operation, the new 2WIN twin-deck fleet now numbers 80, with the total build shared between Van Eck and the West German trailer maker Westfalia.
Built on their respective chassis', with either Westfalia or Dhollandia extra-long tail-lifts, the Ann-high trailers feature composite panelled bodies (some areas are honeycombed) and a lightweight superstructure. There's 1.83m of headroom on each floor and an evenly distributed 19.5 tonnes can be carried on the upper deck. The last metre of this deck lowers hydraulically as an aid to loading and unloading.
In accordance with Dutch law, the trailer's gross limit is 39 tonnes with a 27-tonne triple bogie and a 12-tonne kingpin, To stay on the right side of local weight laws the trailers carry just 55 Euro pallets weighing 436kg apiece, or 39 UK pallets at 615kg each.
With Tridec's latest running gear, Emons' new 2WIN's weigh about 9.6 tonnes Poelmans says this is nearly 3.5 tonnes better than earlier designs.
"Such payload gains are a tremendous boost to our competitiveness," Poelmans explains, 'especially when it comes to the UK end of our business."
He reports that the company's cabotage business is expanding rapidly too, with regular deliveries between Italy, Germany, France and Spain as well as 10 daily cross-Channel trips to the UK. These involve hauling anything from cereals, computers and copiers to hospital beds made in Manchester.
The expansion has led Emons to order another 50 Daf 85CF Spacecab 430s with AS-Ironic and Intarders; some of them will be 6x2 midlifts for UK work.
'The growth is such that our double-deckfleet will soon increase to 200, including new reefer versions," says Poelmans. "But theVII all have the new Thdec suspension,"