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Rokbak
Featured Story
Material can be Type 1, pre-bedding, 40mm sub-base or rock. Once it has been collected, the truck leaves the site out of the main gate and travels two miles up a main road to another area at a higher level of the site. Following the deposit, it travels the two miles back down to the lower ground level where the main groundwork takes place.
Weather conditions are, in typical Scotland fashion, usually wet and challenging, especially coming into the winter. The RA30 dump truck has worked in seasonal dry and wet conditions and has performed consistently.
“The Rokbak is one of our key players on the job as we have to move massive bodies of muck very quickly in very wet weather,” says WH Malcolm Groundworker Foreman, Damon McLaughlin. “The traction it gives us means it gets into areas that are almost impossible to do with other vehicles.”
The RA30’s heavy duty axles are designed with fully floating axle shafts and outboard planetary reduction gearing. The three axles are in permanent all-wheel drive (6x6) with a differential coupling between the front and rear axles. All three axles have hydraulically actuated multiplate transverse diff lock differentials for 100% cross-axle lock up. The inter-axle and cross- axle diff locks are controlled by operators and can be actuated when required in poor traction conditions.
“It’s comfy to drive in, with the air-assisted seat meaning bumps aren’t a problem, the air conditioning unit is spot-on, and it’s got everything I need,” says the RA30’s operator Matthew Baird, who has been operating the truck since January 2022. “It is a good truck to drive – there’s no hassle with it. It goes exactly where you want it to go and there’s good visibility with the heated mirrors.
“There are parts of the site that are a little bit more difficult, but the Rokbak does it. It has very good adaptability.”
A bright future for Scotland
The Lost Shore Surf Resort is scheduled to open in 2024. It will become the focal point of a 60-acre country park which will also offer luxury accommodation, a food market, shopping, and a wellness spa. Only a few miles from Edinburgh Airport, this world-class sports facility is set to change the landscape of Scottish tourism, bringing an iconic sport to a new inland home, further establishing Scotland as a go-to destination for adventure. The 160 metre-long Wavegarden Cove-powered facility will be the centrepiece of the resort and be capable of creating up to 1,000 sustainably generated waves per hour.
“It’s fantastic that Rokbak gets to be part of something that looks set to be so important to Scotland and the Scottish tourism industry,” says Kenny Price, Rokbak’s Regional Sales Manager for EMEA. “Our trucks are designed and built for major projects such as this and, as a proud Scotland-based company ourselves, we’re delighted to be helping put the country on the map.”
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