The series 4000 of Allison and Renault Trucks joined in the collected of waste of Nerja

Inside his plan of renewal of his mobile park of cleaning, the City council of Nerja, Málaga, purchased the past month of September, a Renault Trucks recolector instrumented with box of automatic changes Allison. The aim of this plan was to improve the service of collected of solid waste (RSU) of the place, what has achieved thanks to this new vehicle that has completed his fleet.

The truck is a Renault Premium 380\1CV\2 instrumented with an automatic box Allison of the series 4000, the first that has put in service in Spain for collected of RSU with this power and this engine.

Treats of a vehicle recolector /compactador of 23 m³ of capacity and rear load, carrozado by the multinational leridana Ros Rock, adjudicator of the contest summoned by the City council. The truck besides is endowed of modern measures of hygiene, like camera of rear television and photoelectric cell that detects if the operario rebasa the zone of hygiene and inmoviliza the shovel.

In this case concrete, and to fulfil with the requirements of the City council of Nerja, Renault Trucks proposed his Renault Premium 380, a vehicle that has a high pair engine, that achieves to keep to the maximum with the box Allison 4000 that incorporates. Besides, the vehicle has been adapted in his configuration to adjust to his bodywork of collected of RSU, for what has a steeringal axis by in front of the axis motriz and no by behind, as it is used to to be usual.

After six months to work with him, the managers of the municipal service of cleaning have valued very positively the advantages and the performance of the automatic change of Allison. With 875 hours of work and 11.000 km visited, the new vehicle has showed with grow his efficiency and productivity in the task to collect the waste of Nerja and his surroundings and transport them to the Plant of Transfer of Waste of Vélez-Málaga for his back treatment. It works between 4 and 5 daily hours in low season and until 7 in the season estival, as the population of Nerja multiplies in the months of summer. This model with Allison 4000 results especially indicated for applications of collected of waste that require big capacity of load, already was by volume of RSU, or by the difficulty of the terrain to cover, as it is the case of this place, where abound the slopes.

Before the arrival of the Renault Premium 380 the fleet of cleaning had 6 vehicles, all they with manual change, between them 4 recolectores and 2 baldeadoras, more other auxiliary vehicles for works and maintenance of roads. The Renault Premium 380 with Allison is the first automatic that use in this municipal service of cleaning, thus so much the boss of service like the boss of workshop and the drivers are excited, since the difference with the manuals is abysmal. “It does years had tested a Pegaso with Allison of the series MT and liked us a lot his manoeuvrability and the soft and easy to drive that it is. However, ours main motivation when aleatherg automatic change with converter has been the wear of the embragues in manual changes”, signals Blas Sánchez Castle, boss of the municipal workshop.

According to Rafael Ceretto, boss of the Service of Cleaning “Are very satisfied with the performance of the automatic truck with Allison. We have not had neither an alone problem, offers greater productivity and performance, in addition to an important saving of time. It starts very well in slopes and rampas and all want to drive it”. Although the automatic changes no only save time, but also money in costs of maintenance and replacement of embragues, during all the useful life of the vehicle. Blas Sánchez Castle knows it, and ensures: “From now they will not go in more manual changes to this service”.