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Not, as you might at first think, a cunningly disguised new NATO mobile missle launcher - but the very latest bit of kit to join Carlisle-based waste water and sewage plant maintenance and survey company Andidrain. The specialised (and I mean 'specialised') vacuum loader is based on a Scania eight-wheel rigid chassis and was supplied by Graham Commercials, now click through here for the fully story!

Yet again perusing the Scrapbook memories it strikes me that nothing is that new in our game... Take the current debate about extra long vehicles. New modern thinking? It seems that it was also thought a good idea quite a while ago too.

Then theres those refuse bin trucks that lift the bins up and over the cab, I always thought they arrived about the same time the wheely bin and mass recyclying came into fashion, my boyhood memories are of cheerful dustbin men emptying by hand metal bins, I must have missed this one.

(Ignore the caption! I think thats aimed at a photo off the clipping !)

Now click through for a final thing that remained with us over the years...

Wheelbase Engineering www.wheelbase.net design each Skip Trailer to individual opertors requirements. The one shown has a gross trailer weight of 18000 kgs and is about to go into service with Neal Recycling based in South Wales.  The prime mover is a Mercedes Axor 1833 with Edbro Skip equipment.  To find out more about the Wheelbase Engineering range of skip trailers, click on following link  http://www.wheelbase.net/trailer-chassis-manufacture/skip-drawbar-trailers.html  

Biglorryblog has only one remaining question..how do you load and unload the skip on it? Answers for a pie please....

I had no idea that Quentin Tarantino was running a waste transport company...

Must be a sequel to 'Kill diesel bill....

With everybody going hybrid-mad - Mercedes-Benz is showing a hybrid Axor at Hannover, for instance - it's worth taking a look at a real-world hybrid truck. Here are Volvo's diesel-electric hybrid refuse trucks in action in Sweden:

The film does a good job of explaining the advantages of hybrid power for stop-start applications, including a potential fuel saving of 20 to 30%. We are not so sure that Volvo's conventional drivetrain engineers will be happy with the description of conventional refuse trucks as "noisy, rumbling trucks that guzzle up diesel when idling, right outside our bedroom windows" ...

Amd who's this fellow with the big smile on Biglorryblog? Why it's none other than Cam McFadyen's very own scrap metal collector. But I'll let Cam tell the story. "Hi Brian, a couple of pics of our 'Scrappy', John aka, 'the Crappy Scrappy'..John believes in only getting around in the best of gear. I Can`t recall exactly how long he has had this Bedford---at least 15 years---it replaced a D Series Ford.The truck retains its petrol engine for economy! .Anyway, the scrapyard which benefits from the hard toil of the Crappy Scrappy had a little fire in about 100 tons of old car bodies last week---the photos are in the next e-mail, all the best,Cam."

And here's John's pride-and-joy--with that crane on the back he can pick his own truck up and take it down the scrap yard when it's time to call it a day.....or would that be impossible...? Meanwhile, click through here for the burning scrapyard picture..

Who says the Americans don't have a sense of humour? They do in California anyway. home of der governader! This comes to me from rod Simmonds via Gary Walker...thanks guys. I imagine this company has branches throughout the civilised world... 

Remember my recent blog posting about Hill's Waste wonderful Volvo FM 6x4 autos?  That's one getting nice and dirty above...Well regular Biglorryblog contributor and official BLB 'Keeper of the Flame' Martin Phippard has been having a rare old time of it today with the aforementioned company For he tells me: "Good Evening Brian, Hill's Waste Solutions of Swindon, Wilts. held an Open Day at their Compton Bassett depot today to show local councillors, suppliers and dignataries what the waste business is all about and to highlight the sheer scale of the Compton operation."

Martin goes on: "Most people attending were lucky enough to grab a ride in a helicopter laid on to provide aerial views of the site thus providing the chance to view trucks from a rather unusual angle! Not your usual BLB material but hey, what the heck!"

Now click through here to see the view from the helicopter taken by Martin on his camera after he blagged a ride...unless you suffer from vertigo that is!.

I've been sent this rather amusing diversion by regular Biglorryblog reader Tony Pain, marketing director at Daf Trucks. Tony tells BLB: "On the basis that a picture tells a thousand words etc, clearly Alan's Skip Hire, from Bretton near Chester thinks that threats are now necessary to get the message across then we all need to recycle more!" And as 'threats' go they don't come more persuasive, nor amusing, than this says BLB who is very impressed!

Meanwhile, Tony adds; "The truck, an FAD CF85.360, is ready to save the penguins from March 1, being 08-registered, and yes it is Euro 5! Driver seems happy too! " And why shouldn't he be, sitting in his brand new CF eight-legger?

I'm sure, like Biglorryblog, you'd like to welcome back one of the UK’s best-proven specialist skip loader designs which has recently returned to the market. Tell me more BLB I hear you ask. Well it seems that new company SkipLoader Ltd of Stanton, based near Bury St. Edmunds, has begun production of the unit, having acquired the assets and design rights of the former business of Retech.

The SkipLoader range will retain the former ‘RT’ model designation, supplemented by a number, indicative of designed vehicle gross weight. The equipment is expected to find renewed favour for specialist applications, such as those in the metals recycling industry, where the hostile operating environment demands premium engineering, quality and durability. BLB doesn’t doubt it for a minute….