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Mercedes Adios tailored to the job for Cox Skips
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COX SKIPS HAS bought a pair of specially adapted Mercedes 6x4 tractor units.
Each vehicle is an Actros 3351S with 510hp SCR Euro-4 engine originally specced for SpecialTypes work at up to 120 tonnes GVW the Crawley, West Sussex-based company has had them downrated for operation at 44 tonnes.
Supplied by Rossetts Commercials, the Actroses are equipped with Long Distance cabs as well as upratecl suspension systems and axles which increase their ride height by Sin (127mm).
They also feature Eminox vertical exhausts.
Dave Cartlidge, transport and fleet manager for Cox Skips, says: "These trucks are going to a land fill site 35 miles away at Redhill. They will have a really arduous life on the tip, where the operating environment is constantly changing.
"We were experiencing high operating costs with our previous vehicles so we decided to tailor these trucks to the job in the hope they would give us five years' service at minimal expense."
He adds that the firm has not operated Mercedes tractors before: -It came down to the overall package. We looked at the purchase price, the warranty, and the financial implications of the alterations we wanted to make, and the Mercedes came out best."