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End Dump Trailers
Clement AXP aluminum trailers continue to please, three years after introduction
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February 17th, 2011
Company: Clement Industries
Category: End Dump Trailers
In 2007 Clement Industries, long an innovator and market leader in steel end dump trailers, introduced the “AXP” aluminum, exterior post, end dump trailer. The AXP was the first of a new generation of aluminum trailers from Clement, and was followed to the market a year later by the Clement “ADW”, aluminum double- wall trailer.
The AXP is available in lengths from 24- to 39-feet, in both frameless and quarter-frame models. Designed and engineered for maximum legal payloads, the AXP is an exterior-post design built using Clement’s “uni-beam” concept. In its simples form uni-beam means locking the side sheets into a beam formed by the super-strong, rear double-beam crossmember; the side sheets; and the headboard at the nose. The body is then bolted to the sub-frame at the rear crossmember and at the middle and the front to an 8-inch beam giving the total structure tremendous “strength-to-weight ratio” and eliminating the need for longitudinals while reducing tare weight. The result is that AXP is one of the most rugged frameless trailers on the market today.
AXP also furnishes maximum stability with wide-angle draft arms giving maximum lateral support to the trailer body when elevated, plus a low center of gravity for further stability.
Now starting its third year on the market, AXP is steadily gaining respect as a solid and profitable aluminum trailer to operate.
That’s been the experience of Murphy Brothers Trucking of Arcadia, LA. Murphy Brothers is a general hauler that also specializes in the transport of hazardous and non-hazardous industrial and oil field waste in six states.
Ken Murphy, of Murphy Brothers said the firm has operated “dozens and dozens” of Clement steel trailers since the company was founded in 1984. The firm’s first AXP aluminum went into service “about six months ago with good results.” An additional four AXP’s are now on-line with Murphy with another 4-units built and ready for service. Ken Murphy says that his AXP’s have been hauling crushed rock, fill dirt and non-hazardous oil field waste.
More and more operators are discovering that for profit on the big hauls and steady day-in, day-out operation, the Clement AXP is your best buy.
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