In a major development for Dandenong-based Bulk Transport Equipment (BTE), the company is now producing is own aluminium bodies. Transport company, Trale Investments, is the first client to take delivery of BTE’s inaugural lightweight design.
There is nothing more rewarding for a trailer builder than designing a new application from top to bottom. That’s exactly where BTE finds itself at the present time, as the Dandenong-based company has just off-loaded its new rigid and dog combination to Pakenham transport business, Trale Investments.
“It’s the very first combination that utilises our new design,” says BTE Managing Director, Alan Griffiths. “In the past, we would source the aluminium bodies from other trailer manufacturers, before completing the rest of the build ourselves.
“This step has been 14 months in development and was aided by the much larger facility we now have in Dandenong. We see ourselves as innovators in the transport game, and we are very excited about this body, which offers many improvements over the traditional market offering for aluminum trailers.”
BTE’s new ability to control all aspects of the trailer production process is what attracted Trale Investments Director, Leigh Smith, who took delivery of a new aluminium rigid and dog combination in early November to cart crushed rock and sand for multinational business, Holcim Australia. “The new combination replaces the older model we were running and is used specifically to cart materials from Holcim’s quarry in Pakenham to sites all around Melbourne,” he says.
According to Leigh, choosing BTE stems from a friend’s recommendation. “This is the first time I have dealt with BTE, and from the moment I got in touch with Alan, he was able to run through a number of designs that would best suit the work I was doing,” he says.
The new BTE aluminium body design takes into consideration all of the areas where problems often occur – mainly in the front sheets and hoist box areas that are prone to cracking and fatigue. The new design offers a number of changes, which are a step forward to eliminating failures in these areas.
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