Yeovil-based Blackmores Machinery Haulage has taken delivery of a Volvo FH500 8x2 Tridem rear-steer.
The 44-tonne GTW drawbar provides a custom engineered ‘transport solution’ to the firm’s requirement for a 4 m overall height truck that also features excellent manoeuvrability.
The FH500, which was supplied by Truck and Bus Wales & West, is the first new truck the company has purchased in 30 years of international machinery haulage.
The arrival of the new FH means the company now operates a fleet of four trucks, including an immaculate Volvo FH16-700 ‘Classic’ 6x2 tractor plated for STGO Cat 2.
The latter’s Nooteboom trailer is fitted with an 80-tonne/m Fassi crane. Seven specialist trailers are operated, two of which are drawbar platforms used primarily for transporting forklifts as well as machines.
This FH Tridem is the first in the UK to have a low chassis height of 1100 mm from the ground to the top of the chassis frame. Lowering the running height of the chassis was essential to achieving the 4 m overall height required for Continental work.
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