specialist support equipment as well as the machines that are used for the work themselves. These systems could and will include those mentioned previously but may also include special pipe delivery trailers etc.


Increasingly again pipe for use in replacement operations particularly at smaller diameters will be delivered as a coil which may well need the acquisition of a driver with the right licencing and would be subject to the on road weight regulations depending on the overall weight of the vehicle trailer combination.


In many instances this type of equipment also comes packaged in a single HGV trailer or LGV van arrangement depending on the type of site access available or required. But, in the main these vehicles will be broadly similar to those used in new installations.


Commenting on customer requirements for the new installation and replacement sector Matthew Izzard of Tracto Technik UK Ltd said: “One aspect that we are finding increasingly desired by contractors is the ability to get equipment to site, set it up and get it running from a ‘single package’. For example the new GRUNDODRILL 18ACS HDD system we have recently introduced into the UK has the drill rig on a trailer towed behind the haulage unit. This unit has the drilling fluid mixing system, clean water tank and two independent drilling fluid supply tanks fitted within the truck (the latter allows continuous drilling and new fluid make-up to be achieved simultaneously). There is also a workshop space, storage for accessories and drill bit and reamer storage. This makes the system fully transportable to site and useable immediately


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once there without the need for additional transport of back-up and support systems and equipment, minimising the site footprint overall and the contractor’s time on site.”


VEHICLES FOR INSPECTION OPERATIONS


Where the differences come when looking at vehicles that serve the drainage sector begins with specialist ones that are designed and built for highly specific operations. The first of these is the pipeline inspection vehicle.


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