Mack Trucks has introduced Rolling Start and Auto Neutral, two new safety features for its mDrive and mDrive HD automated manual transmissions. The announcement was made during the 2017 World of Concrete show.
Mack Construction Product Manager Tim Wrinkle says the updates are well suited to paving and concrete applications.
“mDRIVE Rolling Start is mainly geared toward paving applications,” Wrinkle says. “In a paving application, the paving machine is typically pushing the truck long while the truck is in neutral. With this new feature the driver can go from neutral into drive without pressing the brake. So this eliminates any kind of bump that may have occurred from hitting the brake and stopping that paving machine.”
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Unveiled at the World of Concrete, the new CM 3 Compact Modular Vacuum Lifting System from Vacuworx is designed to give you vacuum lifting capability with skid steers, compact track loaders, articulating wheel loaders and mini excavators.
The modular design can be fitted with different pads and lift to up to 6,600 pounds. It weighs no more than a typical bucket for these types of machines. The host machine’s auxiliary hydraulics drive the pumps that provide the suction that adheres the material to be lifted to the pad.
The typical method of removing large sections of concrete is dusty, labor intensive and time consuming; requiring you to jackhammer out concrete sections and break them into pieces small enough to be collected in a loader or skid steer bucket. With Vacuworx, you can saw slabs up into large pieces and pick up and move the entire piece at once. The attachments are also used to pick up, move and place road and trench plates and in some pipe applications.
