The mining industry is normally operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in order to make an acceptable return on the high capital investments. Therefore it is of utmost importance that haul trucks are available for usage. Repair and maintenance, daily checks of oil, water and tyres are reducing the technical availability of haul trucks. The stops for safety reasons during slippery weather of the current large haul trucks have a considerable negative influence on the usage. The fact that ETF trucks can operate under slippery conditions brings already an increase in usage of 8 %. On top of this comes the savings due to hot seat shift change. This means that the operators don't have to carry out any checks during shift change. On average this saves 20 minutes per shift i.e. one hour per day. (4 %) In the downtime for maintenance it will pay off that ETF trucks don't need any oil changes!
Features:
. All-Wheel-Drive
. All-Wheel-Steering
. Multiple engines
. Automatic lifting axles during empty haul
. Major components change in 1 minutes (Engines, axles, tyres, body)
. Fast body swap system
. Higher technical availability
. Higher usage
. Safer
. Environmentally friendly
