This was another mission from the Road Plate Hire team. A maintenance crew had a substantial schedule of works to perform on half a kilometre of subterranean pipework. The lines in question were, in fact, inside a network of sectional reinforced tunnels directly under the access roads for the busy staff car park zones. Health and safety considerations called for the live sections to be plated over to ensure there could be no partial collapse on the crews inside.
RPH had 135 pieces of AIRSIDE-SAFELIFTER, each weighing 883 kg, ready to go. All that was required were two ABLOADS and a curtain-sider with a Moffett to unload all three trucks and position the entire 120-tonne setup. All of this had to happen three hours trucking away from the RPH yard and between the hours of 18:00 and 01:00 to avoid interfering with the coming and going of medical staff.
It all went according to plan, and eight weeks later, when the project was complete, the manoeuvre was reversed with similar success.
