The family company Guisnel based in Dol De Bretagne, is building a new workshop to service its fleet of vehicles, mainly Tautliners and semi-rigids.
Following the inauguration of the new workshop at the end of 2015, the current workshop will become a shared space for the company's employees. It should house a small sports hall, a refectory and a library. The plans have not yet been finalised.
After many months of thinking about the interior layout of their future workshop and the real functional needs of the end user, the customer decided to build 2 pits in the 6 bays of the workshop.
One bay will be reserved for electrical incidents and diagnostics, one for heavy mechanics with a crane with 5 14T cylinders, one will be more versatile with a fixed 4-column crane and a mechanical bay without lifting equipment, one for pneumatics and finally 2 26m pits.
Each of the HGV pits will have a dedicated application. The first will essentially carry out oil changes and rapid maintenance, with all the equipment required in the pit, including oil reels, a diaphragm pump to evacuate used oil and liquids to an underground tank, and a pit edge jack to lift an axle if necessary.
The second pit will be used for pre-departure roadside inspections of the company's fleet of trucks. Prior to departure, all the carrier's trucks are systematically taken to the pit for a quick check on and under the vehicle. All the major components are systematically inspected before setting off. It's a very short operation that today enables the Guisnel group to be one of the carriers, if not the carrier, to ensure a quality of service close to 100%.
This inspection pit is equipped with a pneumatic lifting jack and play plates.
Safety and quality are real issues. Of course, Guisnel has fitted the 2 pits with pneumatic protectors, one at each end of the pit, so that the part of the pit that is not in use is safe.
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