Low Height Volvo FM Drawbar For United Utilities
Due to the need to safely negotiate a narrow tunnel at the entrance to the site where it operates from, the specification of United Utilities’ new low height Volvo FM13.460, four-axle drawbar tanker, was the product of several months of close collaboration between United Utilities, Thomas Hardie Commercials and Volvo Trucks.
Uniquely, that collaboration included the production of a full-size Styrofoam model of the truck’s cab front, which was used on a visit to the site to validate the external dimensions of the real thing, before placing the order.
The entrance to the United Utilities Wastewater Treatment works at Knutsford, Cheshire, where the FM is based, is via what the warning signs say is a 2.4-metre wide (actual width is 3-metres) brick-lined tunnel under a busy railway line. The design of the tunnel means that it is actually only 1.9-metres wide at the narrowest point under its arched roof.
A concrete kerb runs the length of the tunnel on both sides, further reducing the available space for the truck.
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