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I bet the payload’s crap with a Thompson Loadmaster on it’s back. Smiths Bletchington had one on demo recently and was quite well received. Better auto than MAN (not difficult) and a bit of cab lean, payload not bad as it had a lightweight steel body. Better than the Scania P cab they tried at the same time according to one of their drivers.
I saw the word sustainability to many times in that load of waffle!
It’s particularly funny as they are working at the airport…which is about as unsustainable as you can get.
When I reported on the bus industry I interviewed I guy who ran the bus side of the parking operation. BAA had insisted that all his buses had PM traps…meanwhile 100s of aircraft taking off every day, each one probably putting out more pollution from leaving the gate to the take off point than his entire bus fleet did in a year.
Muckaway:
I bet the payload’s crap with a Thompson Loadmaster on it’s back. Smiths Bletchington had one on demo recently and was quite well received. Better auto than MAN (not difficult) and a bit of cab lean, payload not bad as it had a lightweight steel body. Better than the Scania P cab they tried at the same time according to one of their drivers.
I wonder if the actual tarmac plant is within the airport perimiter and they can legally run overweight with their ‘inbound’ loads? There’s plenty of trucks that are allowed to operate within the airport outside of C&U regs.
before Lafarge took over tarmac the last livery of tarmac had sustainability in big letters down the sides of a tipper which would be loaded with stone!
the word is used to much just like logistics from a few years ago!
It’s become completely meaningless…it can be used instead of ‘profitable’ or ‘environmental’ and often is!
Is the one in the picture one of theirs? If so it wont keep blacktop warm for long with that fine mesh sheet.
Agree with comments about “sustainability” how can quarried stone be sustainable? A stone quarry wont sustain itself once all the rock is dug out. Those Mercs could be running muck/rubble to a recycling plant and backloading material, then it’s sustainable.
according to one of my colleagues, we are to have one of these on demo in the New year for a new venture - whatever that means…
lightning:
according to one of my colleagues, we are to have one of these on demo in the New year for a new venture - whatever that means…
Pink muckshifters… 
We recently had a demo, weighed 14 tonne unladen with a Thompson body. However it hasn’t deterred our boss from placing an order for one for March 2014 albeit it will have a ally body on it to keep the weigh down. I’m actually looking forward to seeing it arrive
SH-07:
We recently had a demo, weighed 14 tonne unladen with a Thompson body. However it hasn’t deterred our boss from placing an order for one for March 2014 albeit it will have a ally body on it to keep the weigh down. I’m actually looking forward to seeing it arrive
14t? 
Might aswell buy a 6wheeler
Moose:
I saw the word sustainability to many times in that load of waffle!
I saw the name Paul Bumford and giggled like a child 
Muckaway:
SH-07:
We recently had a demo, weighed 14 tonne unladen with a Thompson body. However it hasn’t deterred our boss from placing an order for one for March 2014 albeit it will have a ally body on it to keep the weigh down. I’m actually looking forward to seeing it arrive14t?
That was the demo tho, apparently you can get it down to 13t, there’s an option of a heavy duty chassis which added a tonne to the weight hence it was 14t, it was quite high n all roughly about 12-13 feet so almost the height of an R-Series Scania
Truckings’ yearbook has a feature on them, TBH the 6wheeler looks way too heavy for a 26 tonner. Why do newer models mean higher tare weights? Everyone bangs on about efficiency yet seem quite happy to run about with an extra tonne all day of dead weight.
Yea you would think these trucks should be getting lighter with “Modern Technology” only adding to the weight.
They should…but the manufacturers seem driven by market requirements other than British ones.
The days when the likes of Foden made dedicated lightweight tipper chassis using ali cross-members and rubber suspension are long gone.
It all seems very strange to be because there are materials and techniques used in other industries that aren’t picked up by truck makers.
Why don’t we have chassis made from aluminium, cabs made from composites etc?
The Merc Econic has a composite cab, so it can be done.
Even when a truck is empty, extra tare weight means more fuel consumption.