Hendrickson says it trimmed 90 pounds from its Paralift lift axle system with the launch of the Paralift PST. Fitting Paralift with a new axle, Hendrickson says the 20,000-pound steerable lift axle system comes with a Westport axle and D22 spindle, and is available for a wide variety of Class 8 truck chassis. To enhance driveline clearance and extend wheel cut to 25 degrees, the company says it redesigned the axle seats and moved the stabilizers inside the tie rod and connected them to the axle brackets. Hendrickson says PST also retains features of previous Paralift models, including adjustability of frame width and ride height, allowing fleets, aftermarket installers and body builders to apply one unit to meet a wide variety of truck configurations.

Paralift’s parallelogram design helps facilitate proper wheel tracking and helps keep lift plates parallel for longer air spring life, while the trailing arm beams feature a single-paddle z-beam configuration. Paralift PST delivers 12 inches of total travel with nine inches of lift in ride heights from 91/2 to 131/2 inches in a 28-inch package space. Zero-torsion trailing-arm bushings help eliminate bushing windup and allow for the dual lift-spring configuration.
Hendrickson
(www.hendrickson-intl.com)

Drop frame side loader
Heil says its MultiTask SL drop frame side loader features a new and improved design that increases efficiency. The MultiTask SL is a 3-in-1 refuse collection vehicle featuring a drop-frame chassis configuration and dual side-loading capability designed to allow operators to collect containers in manual, semi-automated and automated modes. The new vehicle reduces the total time needed to collect a standard route of residential waste by 20 percent or more with single-operator capability, delivering additional productivity for municipalities, private haulers and waste collection companies, according to the company.

An optional, strengthened and redesigned TeleGrip lift arm can be utilized on automated and semi-automated vehicles to further increase efficiencies, Heil says. The arm, which features a cycle time ranging from 8 to 20 seconds and 88 inches of reach, is designed with maximum productivity in mind; grabbers may be stowed in a work-ready position at the chassis frame rail for a width of less than 102 inches. The TeleGrip’s design also facilitates the MultiTask SL being used in narrow streets and alleys, with the arm acting as a cart tipper for receptacles that may be located close to the vehicle body. A low body height helps limit the potential for paper to blow out of the hopper during tipping, while simultaneously providing for dumping of overfilled 96-gallon containers.

Heil says the MultiTask SL allows an operator to continue picking up and dumping waste containers while the packer blade is retracted or extended, and further maximizes effective time on route by utilizing the ReadyPack feature, which automatically compacts the payload with every arm cycle. Other features, according to the company, include a fully welded interlaced subframe for added resistance to salt and corrosion, large hopper capacity, twin dump-hoist cylinders, the company’s proprietary Shur-Lock hydraulic tailgate locks, and Heil’s Operate-at-Idle System. Available body capacities are 24, 27, 30 and 33 cubic yards.
Heil
(www.heil.com)

LEDs in flexible thin sheets
Grote Industries says its latest LED technology, LightForm, uses LEDs in ultra-thin plastic strips that can be placed inside and outside the truck, affixed by the same adhesive used in conspicuity tape. “LightForm is a game-changer that will dramatically alter the way the industry uses lighting, while challenging all of our imaginations in the process,” says Dominic Grote, vice president of sales and marketing.

Grote says LightForm – a highly-advanced solid-state lighting device embedded in film less than 1 millimeter thick – is available in an assortment of colors and decorative finishes, and can be wrapped around surfaces of varying shapes. The product can be cut to fit, even in the middle of a circuit, and the remaining lights will stay lit, according to the company; strips and bars can be bent, twisted and rolled.