Construction trailers form an integral part in their equipment array. They are instrumental in providing the power needed to make every hauling job on the construction site faster, easier and more profitable. Construction trailers help in lifting and moving heavy equipment and construction parts from on place to another part. These items cannot be transported by normal vehicles. Often these construction trailers are custom made to perform specific jobs.
There are four types of construction trailers - dump trailers, equipment trailers, tail-along trailers, and Gooseneck trailers. Dump trailers take care of all types of dumping needs on the construction sites. The dump trailers are commonly used on farms, nurseries, construction sites, golf courses and many other places. Dump trailers function as multipurpose vehicles from hauling to storing construction debris for later disposal. Most dump trailers are made of top-grade materials and latest construction techniques to eliminate bending and breakage in all stress areas and are very cheaper than dump trucks.
Equipment trailers are used for hauling small to medium sized equipment on a construction site. The heavy duty equipment trailers are constructed with the help of channel iron mainframe and tubing cross-members, and axles for bearing the heavy load. Standard slipper spring suspensions are used in the construction of equipment trailers. Tail-along lines can haul heavy loads over long distances with 16″ centered cross-members, a modular wiring harness, chain storage area and a 100″ wide deck. Tail-along lines are useful in transporting heavy-duty equipment or building parts to the construction site.
There are two types of Gooseneck trailers — the Gooseneck with flat beds and the Gooseneck with tilt beds. Flat bed trailers are used in hauling medium to large sized equipment. Their features include items a 10,000 LB drop-foot jack, stake pocket tie downs, safety chains, and pressure treated decking. Tilt bed trailers come with features such as rear impact guards, sealed wiring harness, oak decking, x-bracing, 11°-14° loading angle when tilted, and come in 6-12 ton models with various bed widths and lengths. These trailers can be tilted while loading and unloading heaving equipment.
A crash involving a Dump truck closed sent one person to the hospital and closed a stretch of a heavily traveled road in Cherry Hill Friday.
The accident happened at about 5 a.m. at Berlin and Evesham Roads.
The Dump truck driver suffered non life threatening injuries and was taken to an area hospital for treatment.
Authorities said the road remained closed while crews worked to clear a fuel spill that leaked from the truck.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
A FORMER steel worker now a quadriplegic after a 47-tonne Dump truck ran over his car has been awarded almost $11m in damages.
The New South Wales Supreme Court today finalised the compensation claim by Alan Kendrick, and the money will be paid in equal share by BlueScope Steel and the trucking company Australian Steel Mill Services (ASMS).
The workplace accident occurred in July 2000 as Mr Kendrick, then a blast furnace operator, had just started his drive home from BlueScope’s Port Kembla site, near Wollongong.
The truck ran over Mr Kendrick’s car at night on a narrow stretch of internal road as they tried to pass each other head-on.
In his ruling late last month, Justice Clifton Hoeben found BlueScope Steel had failed to provide safe road conditions while ASMS failed to properly train its drivers.
Today, he finalised the payout, putting it at $16.4m but then deducting $5.7m for Mr Kendrick’s “contributory negligence”, leaving $10.7m.
Mr Kendrick did not appear in the court.
Summit Hill opened bids for two items Friday, each of which drew a quote from one bidder.
The first bid, from S.A. Comunale Co. of Barberton, Ohio, offered to install a sprinkler system at a new fire station and community center the borough will begin building in 2008. The cost for the system was projected at $72,318.
The other bid was $34,000 for a Dump truck with snow plow.
The borough building project will involve razing of the borough’s current building and the construction of two new buildings, which will house borough offices, police and fire stations, and a community center.
Estimated costs for the project are expected to total about $3.5 million, according to Scott Shearer from Public Financial Management Inc. of Harrisburg, one of the project’s financial advisers.
Of that amount, $1.25 million will come from a matching state grant, and another $200,000 will come in the form of funds the borough has managed to save.
Shearer said at a meeting that he hopes council members will consider floating a $2.1 million bond to cover the rest of the costs. In order to pay the amount back over 25 years, the property tax may rise by more than 1 mill in 2009.
Because the matching grant money will not be made available to the borough until it has other financing in place, council will need to finance the full amount of the project up-front. It will then be reimbursed by the state.
If council votes on the bond issue at its reorganization meeting in three weeks, Shearer said it is likely the funds will be in place by February.
The second bid, from the Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp. of Nesquehoning, offered a 2004 Ford dump truck — complete with snow plow and cinder spreader — for $34,000. An F-550 4 by 4 model, the truck has 30,209 miles on it.
Borough Secretary Kira Michalik said the sprinkler bid will be reviewed by the project’s architect, and both bids will be looked over by the borough solicitor before council makes a decision.
The bids are scheduled to be discussed and acted upon at the borough’s reorganization meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 7.
Police are investigating a traffic accident involving a dump truck and a car, causing some delays for motorist traveling in the northbound lane of Babcock Street.
The crash happened about 9:15 a.m. on the 4700 block of Babcock, not far from the Bank of America branch, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Traffic in the northbound lane could be delayed for at least 30 minutes as workers clear the accident site.
Shares of companies that make Heavy trucks rose Wednesday, pulled up by a strong overall market, along with new data showing an increase in truck orders.
According to data from ACT Research LLC, orders of Class 5 through heavy-duty Class 8 trucks rose 12 percent over November 2006 levels.
The November increase came after a 9 percent jump in October, which was preceded by a drop in the three previous months, according to the data included in an analyst note from Wachovia’s Andrew Casey.
Casey said the sustained strength in orders showed that truck market weakness may have bottomed, which is a relative positive for the companies in the sector, he said.
Also on Wednesday, Paccar Inc. announced a special dividend of $1 per share and a regular dividend of 18 cents per share.
The company said it would increase production at its DAF Trucks subsidiary by 5 percent in the first quarter in light of the strong Western and Central European truck market.
Here how Heavy truck stocks finished Wednesday:
Paccar rose $3.94, or 7.8 percent, to close at $54.55.
Cummins Inc. gained $4.52, or 3.9 percent, to finish at $122.
Eaton Corp. added $2.48, or 2.8 percent, to end at $91.74.
Navistar International Corp. rose $2.20, or 4.4 percent, to close at $52.20.
Residents of this manufactured housing community will get to see Brevard County’s planned new automated trash-collection system in action next week, as a truck’s mechanical claw lifts 64- and 96-gallon wheeled carts from the curbside, dumps out the contents and sets the carts back down.
But some are already criticizing the plan as garbage.
“A lot of the people here only put out one little bag of garbage a week,” Pat Clark, incoming vice president of the Barefoot Bay Homeowners’ association, said Thursday. “Why should they put that in a big bin and drag it down the (driveway)? And if they (filled it) for two weeks, just think of the ants, bugs and maggots.”
The system requires the wheeled garbage bins, said George Geletko, spokesman for the contractor, Waste Management Inc. And he said the company will provide the bins free of charge, without passing the costs to the consumer.
Waste Management is negotiating a new contract for 100,000 homes in unincorporated areas of Brevard, such as Barefoot Bay and Micco.
And the contract’s proposed rate increase, from $9.17 to $11.65 a month, has angered residents, Clark said.
But Geletko said that increase only looks bad because the existing county contract, which expires in October 2008, didn’t account for skyrocketing fuel prices.
Waste Management also serves northern Indian River County, where county Utilities Director Erik Olson said going to automation would be costly and only worth it if the county required residents to subscribe to garbage collection. Brevard does, but in Indian River it’s still voluntary.
Traditionally, workers hop off the truck, pick up curbside cans, dump them into the rear of the garbage truck and hop back on for the next house. This month, the County Commission endorsed automation, asking Waste Management to report back at a Jan. 31 final public hearing with budget estimates based on including and excluding recycling as an automated service.
“Currently Waste Management has a hard time keeping people, so the level of service is way down,” County Commissioner Helen Volts said Thursday. “Nobody wants to work on the back of those trucks, especially in the summer time.”
She said the new system also will expand the kinds of material the county can recycle, boosting an annual recycling revenue of $150,000 to $400,000.
As for the homeowner, she said, the new bins are better balanced and easier to maneuver than having to carry traditional 30-gallon cans.
Clark said she needed to see that in practice. So on Saturday, Clark and her neighbors on Barefoot Bay’s Egret Circle will get the new wheeled carts so they can fill them and see the truck at work Wednesday.
Geletko said Waste Management has already set up pilot programs for about 20,000 customers, before the county inks the final deal, in Cape Canaveral, Satellite Beach, Indialantic, Indian Harbor Beach and Melbourne Beach.
FOUR Dump trucks, two owned by the Municipality of Consolacion, have been confiscated by the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (Penro) for alleged illegal hauling of limestone.
The Penro monitoring team and the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) conducted a checkpoint last Tuesday in Conso-lacion.
The four trucks were flagged down at Danglag, Consolacion and were seized after the driver failed to present delivery receipts for the hauling activity, which is a violation of the Province’s quarrying ordinance.
Glenn Baricuatro, Capitol consultant on environment, said that either for commercial or government project, extraction of minerals like limestone has to have the necessary permits and the hauling must be covered by delivery receipts.
The team learned that the limestone was extracted from the waste of a road opening project in Barangay Danglag.
Based on its records, Penro has not issued any waste disposal permit to any person or government entity for the hauling activity.
The four vehicles loaded with six to 10 cubic meters of limestone are now in the custody of the CPPO.
Baricuatro said they do not know where the limestone was to be delivered but they have received reports that quarrying in Consolacion has been going on for quite sometime already.
Capitol will investigate the matter further.
