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“Given the UK’s old road network with tight access roads, and that often there isn’t much space on building sites for delivery, these trailers can reach the parts others cannot.”

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Leeds-based TCL Tanker Rental introduced a new product to its portfolio at the show: a non-hazardous vacuum tank made by Road Tankers Northern fitted to an MAN TGS 26.430 6x2. TCL Tanker Rental runs a fleet of more than 300 trailers and rigids. It provides repair and maintenance services and has a parts division with an online option, as well as next-day delivery.

includes Jost axles with alloy wheels, and a punchstep flooring to save weight and stop the build-up of loose aggregates, which makes it easier to keep the deck clean.

Without the crane it weighs 7,650kg.

Commercial Motor editor Will Shiers (above) sampled a pint of Greene King Level Head IPA on the Van Hool stand.

The Bury St Edmunds brewer has taken delivery of its first split-compartment tanker. It joins a 20-strong single-compartment fleet.

Primary transport manager Paul Brett said it would be used to deliver smaller quantities of specialist beers to the bottling plant. “This is our first Van Hool tanker, and hopefully the first of many,” he said.