So middle of the year - got the blues... what could be better than a nice cheery show at the National Showground - Stoneleigh - the RTX Show. I HATE SHOWS!!!
What could be worse than standing in a field with lots of stale, white, mostly male...... but for some reason I said yes and off we will go. All the usual suspects will be there - Fruehauf, Weightlifter, Colson, SDC etc. So lots of opportunities to grind axes and listen to salesmen explain how bad their hangover was last night. So Newton have a rule - no shows. So why go this year? Well if we have to go to a show then let's at least make it useful for our customers and hopefully give them something they have never seen before, thought about or experienced. Yes we will do it out of a pathetic little exhibition trailer - which like Triggers broom - was very cheap on ebay - but now we have replaced everything - may not do a Clarkson caravan and disintegrate on the way to the show when it hits 45mph.
So back to the 'why' this year? We have a new to UK product - the Knapen moving floor that can do 26,000 liters of bagged liquids one way and pump it out in 12 minutes and then return with 26 tonnes of Anaerobic Digestion Feedstock the other way. Two way full - the holy grail of making money in bulk transport. So that is a first for this show or any other UK show!!
Then we have Europe's number 1 asphalt trailer - the Fliegl Thermotrailer. This offers the safety of horizontal discharge; the temperature control of the best trailer available; and the reliability of not being a moving floor or belt trailer - once again a first for a UK show!!
Last but not least we have a Halo Trailer - a new total safety concept trailer from STAS - it is the first trailer to have reached 9.2 degrees IRTE tilt test as a production trailer for 44 tonnes and to have passed the even harder german DIN test. This is the new 2025 production model.
So come and throw shit at us at the RTX - I'll show you mine......
Posted by Andrew on 10/06/2025
