VEHICLES
By TIMOTHY BYRNE
GeesinkNorba Nordic hosts Sopbilscupen Swedish Waste Collection Vehicle Safety Day
ON Thursday 5 September 2019, GeesinkNorba Nordic hosted the Sopbilscupen Waste Collection Vehicle Safety Day at its facility in Kalmar- Sweden, at which 22 waste collection truck drivers from across Sweden participated.
GeesinkNorba Nordic advertises the event to all of Sweden’s public and private sector waste management operators whose drivers voluntarily apply to be entered into the competition.
One vehicle used for the event was a Volvo FE 6x2 rear steer 26 tonne chassis powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) complete with the Allison 3000 Series automatic transmission. Its chassis was fitted with a 20m3
Norba
MF300 split fraction compaction unit with Norba’s L200 bin lift and had been built as a joint Volvo Trucks Sweden and GeesinkNorba Nordic demonstration unit.
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The second vehicle used was a Volvo FE Sleeper cabbed 4x2 18 tonne chassis also complete with the Allison 3000 Series automatic transmission. Its chassis was fitted with a 15m3
Norba N2 series unit
complete with Norba’s L200 bin lift. The vehicle was being supplied to Clean Mat Trucks Nordic AB to add to its national waste collection vehicle hire fleet for use by both public and private waste management operators across Sweden.
The drivers were split into two groups for the competition. The first group was judged on their driving and operational safety skills, driving through an assault course of cones with tennis balls on top of them. They had numerous 190 litre two-wheeled and 660 litre four-wheeled containers – all provided by Sulo Nordic - to empty along the assault course. Points were added for the overall time that each driver took to complete the assault course and points were added to the overall score if cones were knocked
over or tennis balls were knocked off. In addition, if the 190 and 660 litre containers were not returned to their positions, points would also be added to the overall score.
The second assault course was also laid out using cones with tennis balls on top. The drivers had to show their forward and reversing skills in this exercise, which included emptying a 660 litre container and then reversing up to a steel bull bar to show the safe lifting of the tailgate, packer clearance cycle and the safe ejection of the load. Points were added if cones and tennis balls were knocked over and if the 660 litre container was replaced incorrectly. Finally, points were also added if the safe discharge and ejection of the vehicle’s load was not demonstrated.
There was a short break with refreshments after each group had completed one of the exercises.
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