Find a great choice of walking floor trailers for sale (and the odd walking floor truck) here at Truckpages. If you have large bulk payloads to transport and tip, but don’t want the issues related to articulated tipping trailers, then the walking floor system could be the answer to your problem. The trailer is typically loaded from above with the roof sheeting retracted (from hoppers and silos is best) then after the roof sheet is closed and the truck arrives at its location to deliver the load, the rear doors are opened and the load is ‘walked’ to the rear of the body. The motion is carried out by a hydraulically operated ‘walking floor’ and requires no operator intervention. Remember that the tractor unit must have a ‘wet kit’ installed to operate the hydraulics.
Platts Transport has taken delivery of three new Volvo FH 500 with I-Save Globetrotter XL 6x2 tractor units – citing driver comfort, fuel efficiency and superb aftersales support as key reasons behind the order. The Wrexham-based business will use the trucks to distribute raw materials for sister company Platts Agriculture, as well as other general haulage loads across the UK and Ireland. Replacing three older Volvo FHs in the fleet, the tractor units were supplied by David Hill, Customer Solutions Manager at Thomas Hardie Commercials and are wrapped in Platts Transport’s newly designed red and cream livery. Chris Whittaker, Managing…
Having a tipper for road surfacing applications that does not tip may sound like a nonsense, but Rory J. Holbrook’s new DAF CF 8x4 Tridems have been built to carry out the role of a tipper without all the ‘tipping’. The Norfolk-based aggregate supply specialist has now taken delivery of the first two CF 410 FAW sleeper-cabbed trucks from a total order of six units. Although there are thousands of 32 tonne 8x4 tippers on the UK roads, the problem that they suffer from is all about the tipping. There are sometimes height restrictions on site which means that the…
