WCR Cuts Cost of Waste Work
Waste recycling company, WCR says it has slashed its transport costs by 30% since taking delivery of a new Heil Big Bite refuse body.
2.5cu-m hopper makes compaction quicker, speeding collection time and helping cut operation costs
Heil's Big Bite offers a refuse capacity of up to 31cu-m which, with the 2.5cu-m hopper, makes the collecting large items easier and reduces the collection time for each trip by increasing the volume packed in each cycle.
Company partner and operations director Loyd Chandler told ROADWAY: "I recognise the Big Bite as the best large compaction vehicle on the market. It can hold much more material than the smaller vehicle it has replaced which means we save on transport costs.
"The Big Bite has been fitted with a high level control station to allow operatives to load the vehicle from a loading bay and this has proved very successful."
The Big Bite collects waste foam from the Johnson Automotive Controls' site in Wednesbury, West Midlands, for transport to Newcastle-under-Lyme for recycling.
WCR, previously known as Worcestershire Community Recycling, has more than 60 refuse and recycling vehicles on its hire fleet and collects material for recycling from over 100,000 homes.
Adapted for the web from an article in Roadway, January 2005
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