look at the state of this from lafarge india,no vosa overthere looking at the tyres 
Muckaway:
I don’t know why artic mixers aren’t used over here? I know they’d be restricted to certain sites but with a sleeper cab fitted, I bet someone could find work with one?
seen this a few times around leicester a few years back,but havent seen it for a while.think he had a tipping trailer aswell when the concrete was quiet.
drewster:
Muckaway:
I don’t know why artic mixers aren’t used over here? I know they’d be restricted to certain sites but with a sleeper cab fitted, I bet someone could find work with one?seen this a few times around leicester a few years back,but havent seen it for a while.think he had a tipping trailer aswell when the concrete was quiet.
There are artic mixers being used in this country quite regularly. Haslem Hire uses them. They had 3 on constant hire with Tarmac at Bridgwater plant last year when the Morrisons Distribution centre on the side of the M5 was being built. They carry 11m3. We didnt see the point in them because they took twice as long as a 6m3 truck to load under a pan mixer and twice as long to blow in the steel fibres on site. 2x6ms were quicker and obviously easier to manoevre on site.
mixer driver too:
drewster:
Muckaway:
I don’t know why artic mixers aren’t used over here? I know they’d be restricted to certain sites but with a sleeper cab fitted, I bet someone could find work with one?seen this a few times around leicester a few years back,but havent seen it for a while.think he had a tipping trailer aswell when the concrete was quiet.
There are artic mixers being used in this country quite regularly. Haslem Hire uses them. They had 3 on constant hire with Tarmac at Bridgwater plant last year when the Morrisons Distribution centre on the side of the M5 was being built. They carry 11m3. We didn
t see the point in them because they took twice as long as a 6m3 truck to load under a pan mixer and twice as long to blow in the steel fibres on site. 2x6ms were quicker and obviously easier to manoevre on site.
11 metres thats a lot of concrete to load and tip,bet they dont do many loads in a day.most of the sites we go to youd never get on with a artic.
11 metres thats a lot of concrete to load and tip,bet they dont do many loads in a day.most of the sites we go to youd never get on with a artic.
They are only used on the biggest jobs like Morrisons at Bridgwater. There was 60,000cube in there in 12 months. The internal floors were 35,000. they did 5 loads a day each which soon adds up. They might be up at Tesco`s new distribution centre near Reading at the mo. Theres 500cube minimum a day going in there.
Haslems artics were working for Cemex out of Hardwick, running to Laing O’Rourkes’ site at the old Infirmary, Oxford. They did a lot out of Leamouth Plant to Southampton docks.
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Stanfield:
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Now that would be a good restoration project…
A couple of mixers seen recently, one with concrete and the other a virgin
drewster:
two new notts readymix trucks ordered before breedon took them over.
Was this the mixer company of Gibson str Notts
The only pic i got of a mixer…
Taken in Singapore few years back…
mixer driver too:
When the truck was ordered all the weights were put together and it should have been carrying 8m with a bit to spare.
The Renault chassis is light weight.
I weighed in with 8m(wet load)at 32180kg full of diesel(250l) and 350l water. I carry 7.5m until Tarmac buy me alloy wheels. Alloys were a £2000 extra but were not seen as a requirement at the time. I get paid 8m rates anyway.
We only load our mixers up to 7.5m3 in Scotland. Saying that, most are Scanias which are fairly heavy.
Steven
Not the fastest lap of the day.
Guess who’s busy scanning a couple of hundred old truck pictures he bought recently? 
Scan2 by Cavlover1, on Flickr
Scan17 by Cavlover1, on Flickr
Scan18 by Cavlover1, on Flickr
Scan19 by Cavlover1, on Flickr
Leyland by Cavlover1, on Flickr
New mixer in South Wales for Tarmac
mixer driver too:
New mixer in South Wales for Tarmac
i notice the drums all white,no green and yellow