The city of Rennes protects its workshop pits

The municipal workshops of the city of Rennes have started to equip their mechanical pits and their emptying pits with covers to limit the risks of falling on the ground.

A number of suppliers are now offering a wide range of solutions, with prices ranging from the simple for the most basic products and concepts to double for the finest equipment that is truly ergonomic and easy to use.

The City of Rennes' workshops are responsible for maintaining and servicing the city's fleet of vehicles, and are equipped with a large number of lorries, heavy goods vehicles and commercial vehicles.

The safety department at the Rennes workshops, as well as day-to-day users, have decided to select our system of pneumatic motorised pit cover.

After being disappointed by a competitor's product, which was of good quality but did not meet their requirements, particularly in terms of noise emission, they decided to opt for our system. The Xpertive pit protection system

Our pit cover or pit protection is the strongest on the market today, at 1.5 tonnes per m2 when the cover is closed and becomes the continuity of the workshop slab. You can easily get across the pit with a lorry or car, using a hand truck, workshop crane or mobile column. For mechanics, there's no need to go all the way round the pit - they can cross it without risk, even when loaded. You obviously gain in productivity, comfort and quality of work.

The city of Rennes workshops are unique in that they don't just maintain lorries, HGVs and commercial vehicles. They are also responsible for maintaining the small sweepers that clean the gutters on public roads.

So they took the opportunity to reduce the width of their HGV emptying pit. From now on, they will be able to service both small sweepers and larger vehicles such as refuse collection vehicles.

To reduce the width of the pit, we designed a bespoke metal structure with the future roof runway already integrated. Some civil engineering work had to be carried out, particularly on the overhang at the top of the pit.

Today, after more than a year in use, the customer is satisfied and has confidence in us.

 

He has adopted the product. He wants to equip his 3 pits with the same system.

Aluminium pit cover

 

 

 

 

 

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Inside view of the inspection pit

 

 

Pit protection storage

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