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IN THIS ISSUE
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Should trailer
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How much?
hitches be part
Operator cost
of the MOT?
breakdown for
14 types of truck
Features
January 2019
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COVER STORY: EMERGENCY SERVICES
Recovered with glory
Just as commercial vehicles come in all shapes and sizes, so
too do the breakdown recovery vehicles that service them.
One worry on the horizon for urban operators of these
long-lived units are emissions restrictions in clean air zones,
reports Steve Banner
RECOVERY POSITION
Vital statistics for vehicle-based assistance
from ambulances and breakdown trucks
Urgent care
Regulars
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Comment
4
News
• DVSA takes tougher
action on old tyres
• Cartwright and Royal Mail
Fleet exchange apprentices
• Go ahead for CV electric
van and car trial
• Scotland Forth Bridge
autonomous bus trial
• Letter to the editor
Ambulances have been quietly migrating from box bodies
to a lighter panel van conversion. Meanwhile, a review
published in September suggests that all UK ambulances
should follow the same specification. Dan Gilkes reports
Vans used in a range of industries are increasingly being
transformed into mobile workshops with their very own
power supplies, reports Chris Tindall
Power to the people
Trailing behind
Lacking the force of the law, inspections of small trailers may
not be carried out as often as they should. Kevin Swallow
reviews how operators should maintain and service LCV
trailer couplings
Two former school friends are collaborating to improve the
safety of commercial vehicles, one wheel at a time.
Steve Banner reports
Profile: class act
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Engineer to engineer
• Haulier sees benefits
of signing up to Scania
telematics and driver
training
• Cold storage transport firm
specifies drawbar trailer to
match rigid
OPERATOR COSTS REVIEW
Brexit bites
Driver shortages, market uncertainty and indecision and
unrest about the future direction of the country are all factors
making life tough for transport operators. John Challen
reviews the market with updated FTA and RHA data
Safety standards covering loader cranes are due to be
updated in 2019, which might affect their use of remote
controls. Chris Tindall tunes into the wireless
Cranes and loaders: making waves
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Technology update
• Workshop technology
round-up
• New parts for bodybuilders
Predictive maintenance
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Legal update
Is it practical, or even possible, to know exactly when your
vehicle might need servicing? And if not, what can be done
using today’s telematics? By Toby Clark
January 2019
www.transportengineer.org.uk
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ews in this month (p5) of an apprentice exchange between Royal
Mail and trailer manufacturer Cartwright; Royal Mail’s apprentice
mechanics travelled to the Cartwright factory to see how the trailers
that the company buys are made, while Cartwright’s travelled to a Royal
Mail garage to see how they are used. What a fantastic idea: it allows
both groups of new engineers to see their own work from a completely
different perspective. That deepens their understanding of their
equipment, and widens their view of the wider operational context, in a
way that might help answer those ‘why-are-things-the-way-that-they-are’-
type questions. Even the Royal Academy of Engineering is proposing
interchanges between academics and industry (
https://is.gd/ipufup
).
It would be great to see schemes like this adopted more widely.
Fortunately, there are many commercial vehicle bodybuilders and trailer-
builders in the UK for operators to team up with; but they are not the
only ones. The Leyland DAF factory springs to mind on the HGV side, but
of course there are also bus factories in Ballymena (Wrightbus), Falkirk
(ADL) and Leeds (Optare).
Customer-supplier exchanges aren’t the only possible modality. What
about peer-to-peer swaps, such as a hire-and-reward HGV operator
swapping technicians – or even fleet managers – with other types of
operators in their area, such as bus garages, coach operators, municipal
authorities or crane hire companies? What about technicians trailing
DVSA vehicle examiners, and vice versa, to see commercial vehicles from
opposite sides of the law?
Such postings could not only reward a diligent mechanic, but also
help the operator by spreading new ideas and knowledge of best
practice. Perhaps these companies would be surprised to discover how
much they have in common.
To work well, such exchanges require trust and mutual
understanding. A good place for forming relationships and hatching
plans would be regional meetings of the IRTE, which feature a cross-
section of local industry (as well as free membership for apprentices).
In other news (p4), DVSA is strengthening its enforcement against tyres
greater than 10 years old. This follows a tragic bus crash profiled in
TE
March 2018 (‘Killer Tyres’:
https://is.gd/ahihop
). Some research suggests
that age-related tyre degradation is essentially invisible. Better to be safe.
Will Dalrymple
Editor
January 2019
www.transportengineer.org.uk
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