Capital Equipment News September 2020

Scania South Africa has handed over a 20-unit fleet of Scania R 560 A6x4HZ CR20N trucks to the Reinhardt Transport Group.

monitored for impact and performance. Over 100-million km of data have been collected and processed to date, indicating overall net benefits of the PBS framework, including: a 12% reduction in fuel use and emissions, a 13% reduction in road wear impact, 39% reduced road crashes, and 22% fewer truck kilometres travelled on South African roads. In most countries throughout the world, heavy vehicle use on the road network is controlled predominantly by prescriptive regulations. The PBS in South Africa is being run as an alternative framework regulating heavy vehicles. Section 81 of the Road Traffic Act of 1996 currently governs all vehicles using prescriptive limits, with two main restrictions placed on heavy vehicles being overall vehicle length and mass. The PBS approach to heavy vehicle regulation, by contrast, specifies on-road performance and safety requirements, allowing a relaxation of vehicle mass and geometry. Prescriptive regulation is simple to understand and easy to enforce, but does not adequately address the dynamic performance and efficiency of vehicles on the road. The PBS approach offers flexible design rules. Design is based on a set route decided by the transport operator and approved by road authorities along the route. The design is also based on making the truck and trailer combination perform safely on that route while carrying larger

Rodney Houston-McMillan, Group COO at Reinhardt Transport Group (left), takes delivery of the new trucks from Johnny-Ray Basset, key accounts manager at Scania South Africa.

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Scania South Africa has delivered 20 Scania Performance- Based Standards trucks to S Hauliers, a subsidiary of the Reinhardt Transport Group

Reinhardt is one of Scania South Africa’s biggest customers in South Africa, operating in excess of 700 Scania trucks

OPERATING IN EXCESS OF 700 SCANIA TRUCKS

The new fleet ushers in a new era for both Scania and the customer, as it is the first Scania fleet in South Africa to be designed and operated under the Performance-Based Standards framework

The PBS combination is an adaptation of the baseline vehicle, and employs one additional axle per trailer. In this instance, the added axle allows the Scania PBS vehicles to have a gross combination mass of 120 tonnes without exceeding legal axle loads

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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS SEPTEMBER 2020