WHEN Best UK Transport needed another concrete mixer truck, owner-driver Andrei Balean returned without hesitation for a second eight-wheeled Mercedes-Benz Econic. “For this application there’s nothing to touch the Econic,” he said.
Best UK Transport’s new truck is fitted with an 8cu.m Schwing Stetter drum. As a 3235 L variant it employs a 7.7-litre six-cylinder engine producing 260kW (354hp) and drives through a 12-speed Mercedes PowerShift three automated manual transmission.
The truck’s ENA configuration, single front steer axle, double-drive bogie and rear-steer axle, gives it an impressively tight turning circle; a major advantage for operation in the capital.
