No need to use the tractor’s Hiab crane to unload, as the shipyard has plenty of cranes of their own. An older CF-series model, also with a day cab. Today’s bonus: a 2009 DAF CF 85.410 FTG tractor with a Nooteboom semi-trailer, delivering steel plates at the shipyard. The little truck was too far ahead, I could only take a picture of its rear side, but this is how it looks from another angle. The DFSK is powered by a 1,310 cc, four-cylinder engine, running on CNG (compressed natural gas). It’s registered as a dump truck, so that’s how it unloads. The truck’s curb weight is roughly the same as its payload capacity, both are just over 13 metric tons (28,660 lbs).Ībout 10 minutes later, I caught this LHD micro sized garbage truck, a 2016 DFSK (Dongfeng Sokon) K01H with a Van den Born body. The complete garbage collection equipment was supplied by Geesink, a brand of the Geesink Norba Group. So the driver is sitting on the right…watch out for that precious 2002 Hyundai Atos with its 999 cc engine on the left! Everything else is recycled in another way. The restgarbage ends up in a blazing fire, inside a huge oven, generating electricity. Glass and “restgarbage” have to be brought to (separate) underground containers at a location nearby. All bins have to be placed on the same side of the road, so that the truck has to drive through the streets only once. The side loader grabs a wheeled bin with a green lid, which means it’s a collection day for the kitchen and garden leftovers. No place for traditional 6×2 chassis in the garbage collection world of twisting & turning all day long, often in tight spots. A pusher axle is ahead of the drive axle, a tag axle is behind it. They either have a single wheeled, steering and liftable pusher axle or a ditto tag axle. These days, all regular sized garbage trucks have three axles. There’s a 340 DIN-hp, 10.8 liter inline-six under its day cab, known as the MX-11 engine. Since it’s RHD, I simply assume this 2018 DAF CF 340 FAN was built in the UK, in the former Leyland trucks lorries production facilities. This only applies to right-driving countries, which is the right thing to do where I live. The reason is obvious, when looking at the picture: the driver is sitting on the side where the action takes place. Automated side loaders, we’re talking about garbage trucks, are RHD.
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