Collins’ Gateway to Heaven


At the mid-point of a major three-year, six million cubic metre muck-shifting project taking place at East Midlands Gateway, Collins Earthworks is in good shape and ahead of target. The VOICE went along to discover more.


We spoke with Managing Director, David Collins, on-site amidst a predominantly Volvo badged set of equipment ranging from 1.5 up to 75-tonne excavators, and an impressive line-up of 29 articulated haulers, including two newly delivered A60H trucks. “We’re really pleased with the way this project is going,” says David. “It’s a massive undertaking and the fact that the eleven planned industrial units are selling way before completion is really encouraging. It’s putting us under the spotlight to maintain our cut-and-fill and soil stabilization programme to bring the individual plots in on time for the


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structural work to take place. But we’re in good shape and everything is going well.”


Most equipment in the Collins collection is manufactured


by Volvo and besides the 29 articulated haulers, they have two EC750Es, three EC700C and an EC480E acting as the prime movers, along with four EC220Es and an EC300E on various duties around the site. To keep pace with this monster project and another muck-shifting project in the pipeline, Collins has a further EC300E, EC380E and an EC480E on order, together with eight more A30G articulated haulers. They have purchased another secondhand EC700C, making


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