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CHRISTIAN SALVESEN'S DRAWBAR

5th June 2003, Page 44
5th June 2003
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This category attracted a veritable 'Who's Who" of top trailer builders and operators alike.

Cartwright's dolly trailer is essential to Gregory Distribution's contract with Gerber Foods.

It's a fine trailer design, but the driver-friendly load-restraining frames, nets and strapping were the key elements.

They attach to the side raves, floor and roof tracking but, when not in use, they store inside the bulkhead cabinet.

Christian Salvesen's drawbar trailer is a vital part in Goodyear Dunlop's national tyre distribution.

The 10m straight-frame trailer has a 4.7m tri-axle spread, outer self-steers, squat 435/50R 19.5in tyres and carries two of the three 5.0m swap bodies.

With a Oaf CF75-310 prime mover to tote the third box, the 35tonne GTW rig has been carefully designed for safe driving, mounting and dismounting, day or night. Outer trailer axles self-steer with lock-out speed sensing and the front lifts automatically when reversing.

Dennison's slope-frame lowloader is another, really versatile trailer that hauliers like John Mitchell Transport use at 13.6m to haul various C&U loads, or, extended in increments, at up to 19.7m for Special Types work.

It opens by means of a twopiece steel box spine, and secures using air-operated locking pins. The load bed height is 910mm.

Having bagged the reefer trophy, Sinclair's French-built Chereau Tecnogam certainly measured up as a superb fleet finalist.

Equipped to Pulleyns' very detailed specification, the build list also included a rear-steer axle, special spare wheel extractor and, for greater on road safety, extra LED side and rear marker lights and side repeater lights.

United's 97m7 horizontal discharge trailer combines an aluminium plank-sided body with high-tensile steel chassis on tridem running gear.

Built for Alex Anderson, the moving floor system can be operated remotely, via a wander lead, and its neat rollover sheet can be worked safely from a front bulkhead platform.

Wilson TS's Ultimate is aptly named. Designed to suit Weaver Pallet Express's hub partners, the heavily fabricated multi-decker uses two spring-assisted, "butterfly" decks on a centre spine, and two full-width, ratcheted deck sections. They're height adjustable and provide many loading options.

To counter damaging G-forces, Wilson fitted an inner strut down the centre.