MOT - Heavy goods vehicles
Lorries, tractor units, trailers and buses require equipment designed to cope with heavy loads and long lengths. Discover Capelec’s solutions for the roadworthiness testing of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs).
Constraints specific to heavy goods vehicles
A heavy goods vehicle centre is designed with certain constraints in mind: axle loads, vehicle lengths and manoeuvring requirements influence the dimensions of each bay and the layout of the building.
Lorries, commercial or industrial vehicles, agricultural machinery, transport vehicles and buses: a single lane must remain usable for vehicles ranging from the shortest to the longest, including the trailer.
High-energy braking
Test benches designed for heavy goods vehicles apply and measure forces that are on a completely different scale to those of a light vehicle test bench. They involve civil engineering work on the building and determine the required approach length upstream and downstream of the test station.
Mostly diesel engines
Opacity measurement – and, depending on the market, particle counting – plays a central role. Access to the exhaust, which is often high up and on the side, is taken into account right from the design stage of the test rig.
High-mounted spotlights
The height of the headlamps means that the headlamp alignment machine must have an extended measurement range and enhanced stability, within an area sized to accommodate the length of the vehicles being serviced.
Operator safety
Handling vehicles weighing several tens of tonnes requires robust equipment, a remote control system and constant visibility of the vehicle for the operator.
The brake test bench: the heart of the heavy goods vehicle test line
This equipment forms the backbone of the entire project. Durable materials, easy installation, PC-based display and control, intuitive software: our heavy goods vehicle test benches are designed for sustained throughput and for vehicles that leave no room for error.
Depending on the configuration, they are supplied with skid plates and clearance plates sized for the same loads, with which they share the civil engineering works.
View brake test benches Install a brake test rack in a HGV workshop
Planning before the catalogue
In a PL project, the difficulty almost never lies in the choice of fixtures: it lies in integrating them into the building and the external circulation routes. Turning circles, line length, permissible floor load and headroom determine what is feasible.
Through-traffic is almost always preferable: reversing manoeuvres by a road train take up a considerable amount of time and space.
Equipping a heavy goods vehicle testing centre Planning the layout
Equipment for a heavy goods vehicle route
Brake test benches
Roller stands designed to withstand the loads and track gauges of commercial vehicles.
PL game boards
Detection of play in the steering and suspension systems of heavy goods vehicles.
Opacitometers
Measurement of smoke opacity for diesel engines.
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