Inefficient Wheel Wash Problem Solved 7.03.2017 Local planning consents and highways regulations mean that vehicles alighting onto the public highway from industrial sites have to be clean, thus preventing the road surface from becoming dirty and potentially unsafe. Failure to comply with the regulations can lead to prosecution meaning fines and the additional cost of cleaning the road surface for the site operator/owner. A mining/quarry company contacted SNF as they were encountering problems with the performance of their wheel wash. The volume of traffic using the wheel wash was such that the silt washed off the vehicles did not have sufficient time to settle before being re-circulated, therefore leading to the vehicles beingwashed in dirty water. This led them to have to hire in additio

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