On the tail of lift truck service
August 1st 2008 Briggs Equipment runs a
500-strong mobile
engineering operation to
service its fleet of Cat Lift
Trucks and ancillary plant
and equipment. The
company has now launched
an extended wheel base van
in response to operating and
safety regulations guiding
the service and maintenance
of vehicle mounted lifting
equipment, including tail
lifts.
The new Iveco Daily vans
are 6.5t with an extended
chassis incorporating an
extended wheel-base with
an on-board crane and hoist
mechanism. The van design
was critical in providing a
service to deliver the
statutory inspections and
overload tests required in the
tail lift market.
"These vans are truly
mobile workshops and carry
everything on board to
deliver the weight tests more
accurately and safely than
ever before. Prior to this,
service engineers had to
carry all their equipment in a
trailer behind the vehicle,
which was cumbersome and
involved a lot of manual
handling of heavy weights,"
says Ian Valentine, VMLE
divisional manager at Briggs.
"We call this van the
Thunderbird, because of its
length, and the hoist and
crane mechanism looks like
something out of a science
fiction movie when it glides
in and out of the van!"
The fleet of vans have a 4t
pay load and carry 2t of test
weights in six 375kg pods. A
remote unit controls the
lifting and placement of the
weights. The engineer has all
the kit to carry out statutory
inspections that meet LOLER
regulations for Thorough
Examination and weight
testing. The vans were
designed and produced with
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