Capital Equipment News February 2022

TIPPER TRUCKS

A trend observed by Volvo is investigation into lighter weight tipper body design, without sacrificing the robustness of the vehicle

TIPPER TRUCK EFFICIENCIES, THE QUEST FOR PAYLOAD SIZE AND FUTURE INNOVATIONS

Tipper trucks have a crucial role to play on almost every construction site and mining operation where aggregate, soil, crushed rock and other bulk materials are transported. Manufactured in a variety of sizes and configurations, most modern models strive to reduce body weight and increase payload. This feature looks at the tipper truck market, efficiencies, payload size and future developments in this sector. By Mark Botha.

U D Trucks Southern Africa MD Filip van den Heede says that, despite taking a knock in 2020 due to the pandemic that forced multiple lockdowns and logistics and supply chain challenges, tipper sales recovered to normal levels in 2021. “The market has registered significant growth of close to 10% in 2021 compared with 2020 sales and was slightly up compared with sales for 2019,” he says. “We look forward to additional growth for the tipper segment in 2022 and anticipate a positive recovery in global supply chains.” Isuzu Motors South Africa senior vice president, Sales and Marketing, Craig

FYH33-360 SWB 8x4 – 15 m 3 tippers. Volvo Trucks SA senior manager Sustainability Eric Parry says a current trend in the tipper truck market are investigations into lighter-weight tipper body design without sacrificing the robustness of the vehicle. Tipper efficiency “From a mining tipper perspective,” says Parry, “we have introduced the new 38 t bogie, which allows Volvo trucks to offer an 8x4 tipper with a GVM of 58 t.” Uren says Isuzu has introduced overall

Uren says sales are very much driven by activities in the construction industry and infrastructure spend by government entities, both of which have been slow. “We therefore monitor trends we have in our data and use these in our forecasting of the Isuzu Ready to Work tipper range.” He says that, based on these trends, the company builds Ready to Work stock of the NPR400 SWB 4x2 – 3 m 3 and FSR800 SWB 4x2 – 5 m 3 dropside tippers, as well of the FTR850 SWB 4x2 – 6 m 3 ; FVZ1400 SWB 6x4 – 10 m3, FXZ26-360 SWB 6x4 – 12 m 3 and

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