Vehicle Inspection - Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Trucks, tractor-trailers, trailers, and buses require equipment designed to handle heavy loads and long lengths. Discover Capelec's solutions for the technical inspection of heavy-duty vehicles (HDV).
Constraints Specific to Heavy-Duty Vehicles
A heavy-duty vehicle service center is designed with certain constraints in mind: axle loads, vehicle lengths, and approach maneuvers all affect the dimensions of each service bay and the building’s layout.
Trucks, commercial or industrial vehicles, agricultural machinery, transit 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 stands designed for heavy-duty vehicles apply and measure forces that are incomparable to those of a light-duty vehicle test stand. They involve civil engineering and determine the required approach length upstream and downstream of the station.
Mostly diesel engines
Opacity measurement—and, depending on the market, particle counting—play a central role. Access to the exhaust, which is often located high up and on the side, is addressed during the design phase of the station.
High-mounted spotlights
The height of the headlights requires the headlight aimer to have a wide measurement range and increased stability, within an area sized to accommodate the length of the vehicles being serviced.
Operator Safety
Operating vehicles weighing several dozen metric tons requires heavy-duty equipment, a remote control system, and constant visibility of the vehicle for the operator.
The brake test stand, the heart of the heavy-duty truck line
This equipment forms the backbone of the entire project. Durable materials, easy installation, PC-based display and control, intuitive software: our heavy-duty test stands are designed for sustained throughput and for vehicles that tolerate no margin for error.
Depending on the configuration, they come with skid plates and clearance plates sized for the same loads, with which they share the civil engineering infrastructure.
View brake testers Install a brake test stand in a heavy-duty truck workshop
Layout Before the Catalog
In a parking lot project, the challenge is almost never the choice of equipment: it’s how it fits into the building and the surrounding traffic flow. Turning radii, line length, floor load capacity, and headroom determine what is feasible.
Through traffic is almost always preferable: reversing maneuvers by a truck-trailer combination consume considerable time and space.
Equipping a heavy-duty vehicle inspection center Plan the layout
Equipment for a heavy-duty truck line
Brake Test Stands
Roller stands designed to accommodate the loads and track widths of industrial vehicles.
PL Game Boards
Detection of play in the steering and suspension systems of heavy-duty vehicles.
Opacimeters
Measurement of smoke opacity for diesel engines.
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