IT SAYS something when a leading tipper operator continues to buy essentially the same spec of truck, year after year after year. The same type of body, the same choice of tipping gear, and the same make and layout of chassis. So might the company concerned be open to a slight charge of complacency by seemingly ignoring all the recent areas of ‘progress’ made by the various truck producers?
“We created what we believe to be the optimum tipper vehicle many years ago, and we’ve stuck with it ever since,” said Joe Overton, transport and sales director of TMC Haulage Ltd. “The tippers we want have to provide a combined series of benefits, covering issues such as overall reliability, payload capacity, fuel economy, driver acceptability, aftersales support and final residual value. At the end of the day, it’s simply all about working out the total ‘whole life’ economics of running tipper trucks, and squeezing the maximum possible productivity out of them.
