Ancillary Equipment

Vishay Precision Group’s VPG onboard weighing product group has partnered with VUE, a leading UK supplier of vehicle CCTV, tracking, and telematics solutions, to enhance its 1300 BulkWeigh and 1300 WasteWeigh systems. The new PM 1300 360-VUE systems is said to offer enhanced health and safety and security features through new video data recording capabilities and support for up to eight cameras, including near side, far side, front, rear, and load. The BulkWeigh and WasteWeigh onboard weighing systems that

While the focus for many manufactures has been on reducing PM and NOx in diesel engines, those same on-highway companies have also been looking at alternative fuels. The most successful for truck use has been compressed natural gas, which can be used on its own or in a dual-fuel engine. Now Cummins is bringing this dual-fuel technology to the mining sector with the introduction of the QSK60 Dual Fuel engine, for use in heavy rigid mining trucks. The engine can be run on diesel fuel alone, or in dual-fuel mo

Volvo has developed an innovative hybrid wheel loader prototype, which was on display at ConExpo, and demonstrates the results of company's ongoing alternative power research.

The diesel-electric hybrid drive system has been fitted to one of its proven L220F wheel loaders as a rolling test machine to demonstrate the benefits of this technology in terms of fuel savings and reduced exhaust emissions.

This is the first prototype in Volvo's ongoing development programme and initial tests it can deliver su

In a move that has taken the construction equipment industry by surprise, Caterpillar unveiled at Conexpo its first bulldozer powered by an AC electric drive. Cat said that the D7E offers "significant productivity increases and reduced owning and operating costs". Backed-up by over 100 patents, the mid-range machine will be introduced in selected markets during 2009. "From an environmental sustainability perspective, the D7E uses substantially less fuel per hour - dramatically reducing the amount of carbon