Large capacity short term rental trucks
A mixed-use port, The Port of Garston – just seven miles from Liverpool city centre – handles 600,000 tonnes a year from all over Europe and beyond.
In the last 18 months, owners ABP have spent almost £8m on upgrades and infrastructure including storage and bagging facilities to support a new contract with fertiliser importer Yara UK.
Their bulk bags require specialist handling. The bag’s size extends the load centre forward, so extra capacity is required on handling equipment. Forklifts are also designed for use of both forks together, so a 600Kg bag is actually half a 1200Kg minimum load.
Add to that the height involved in multiple stacking and the desire to load a trailer as fast as possible and soon you have a load over 3.6t. You also don’t want those bags to be swaying around or finding that the forks are piercing the bag handles.
ABP turned to The Carrylift Group to provide large capacity short term rental trucks while the new equipment was being sourced.
Area sales manager Howard Bond said: “We’ve been here before and our engineering team were able to fabricate the correct specification forks, not only to prevent them cutting into the handles, but to provide stops for them not to move too close to the mast.”
ABP’s Brian Wright added: “We operate in a large concrete yard, it’s fairly exposed to the elements, and security is important, so there are lights, fences and other important items of infrastructure. We need good visibility to be able to navigate around them, as well as reliability to be available when we need them – and with the support of Carrylift, we believe that’s exactly what we have.”
Replacing the Nissan hire trucks are two new TCM 7.0 tonnes capacity machines on long-term contract hire. Equipped with a turbo charger and intercooler system, the larger FD Series delivers maximum power at low engine speeds, whilst the cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system reduces NOx emissions.