September 2010
The September issue is crammed full of product news and services offered within the truck, mining and construction sectors.
In the Underground Mining Focus, Micromine ensures that mining operations can function to maximum efficiency without the need for specialised on-site supervision. The system is unique in its scalability of data acquisition and their methods can be combined to suit all customers' requirements.
Also ensuring that your business stays on track, Brigitte Radford offers advice on equipment acquisition regarding hiring, buying or leasing, giving us the pros and cons of all scenarios. As always, there is a FREE offering at the end of the article, so get there quickly and read her submission.
An interesting contract this month is in the logistics side, where ‘long trains' [about 50% longer than their predecessors] have been phased in since July last year, when Transnet Freight Rail began commercially implementing Radio Distributed Power [RDP] control systems on the Class 9E electric locomotives and Class 34 diesel locomotives deployed on the 861km Sishen-Saldanha line.
So, be informed and enjoy the read!
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Industry Insight
This month Planning and Cost Engineering Services' [PaCE] CEO and Managing Director, Nic Bennet believes that there is a drastic shortage of cost engineers not only in South Africa, but worldwide. He says that engineering-based corporate investment in tertiary institutions is vital to assisting quantity surveyors.
Behind The Purchase
Volvo's Leviathan thunders across the Norwegian landscape, but despite the truck's 700 horsepower and torque of 3150Nm at 2650r/min, there is no negative impact on fuel consumption and it more than meets the Europe-wide Euro5 emission requirements.
Company Profile
Johnson Crane is under the spotlight this month, as it ranks amongst the top 30 crane companies in the world, as adjudicated by Crane International, as well as having the largest fleet in Africa and possibly the southern hemisphere.
Trucks Freight and Logistics
In TFL this month read about a Kimberly-based engineering works, Kew Foundries, that selected the Freightliner Argosy Cummins 500 as their Abnormal load truck of choice and see how they moved the largest cast-sheave wheels in the world. Also in TFL, find out about the new services division from GRW, where they provide tanker repairs, refurbishments and contract servicing.
Next month
Look out for a bumper section on the trucking industry as we cover the RFA Conference and more.
