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Tough DAF proves ideal recycler

Up to 60,000 tonnes of waste building materials are being recycled each year in Sussex with the help of a new DAF four-axle tipper in service with Chichester-based MTS Contractors.

The truck makes up to 10 trips a day collecting material from within a 30-mile radius of its base. Much of the material is recycled at a crushing plant operated by MTS in partnership with Tarmac Recycling, for use as road ballast.

The DAF truck is an FAD CF85 with a 14m3 all-steel, heavy-duty Loadmaster body fitted with an Edbro CX15 single front-end ram providing a payload of 19.5 tonnes.

 

The truck is powered by a 12.6-litre Paccar XF Euro 3 engine which delivers 340bhp (240kW) at 2,000 rev/min. The XF also provides 1,600Nm of torque between 1,200 rev/min and 1,500 rev/min. An eight-speed ZF 8S-151 synchromesh gearbox with range change and the DAF 1132T single-reduction tandem bogie with inter-axle and cross locks complete the driveline.

 

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