Yale is supporting the top football teams and thousands of fans visiting Switzerland and Austria for Euro 2008 by supplying 120 Veracitor VX lift trucks to help construct temporary arenas with viewing stands, giant video screens and hospitality areas in 16 towns and cities throughout Switzerland. Sponsored by UBS, each arena complex requires 350 tonnes of construction materials to erect the viewing stands and 19 tents needed to entertain the fans. The various Yale counterbalance trucks are used to unload vehicles and position building materials and stores on the different sites.
When not showing live matches on the giant screens, the arenas will host many live music acts and screen past UEFA championship games to entertain the thousands of football fans visiting Switzerland from all over Europe.
Endorsing the comments made by UEFA President Michel Platini, Roger Kuhn, Principal of Avesco the Yale dealer in Langenthal, said: “This tour offers football fans an unforgettable experience in terms of its size and the technologies being used, Yale is delighted to play its part in Euro 2008.”
The Yale team of Veracitor VX Series of 1.6 to 3.5 tonne capacity lift trucks are more than a match for the competition, with high productivity and operator ergonomics featuring strongly in the design. After all, Yale has a pedigree of lift truck design and manufacture stretching back for nearly 100 years, more than twice the age of the Euro football competition, which was first played In 1960 as the European Nations Cup.
The new Yale Veracitor VX Series of engine powered counterbalance lift trucks, derives its name from the word veracity meaning ‘adherence to truth’, which when translated into materials handling means ‘creating a true solution to meet the customers needs’. This approach is extended across the complete Yale range, delivering high dependability, ergonomics and productivity, combined with low cost of ownership and matchless service.
Being match fit is as important for the lift trucks as it is for the players. Frequent braking on lift trucks is a major source of muscle strain. Even moderate applications can see lift truck brakes being applied more than 100 times per hour, or many thousands of times during the construction of the viewing arenas.
Yale operators will not require the team Physio as careful attention to brake pedal positioning, an extra wide pedal and braking effort reduced by 50%, all contribute to ease of operation on the Veracitor VX Series.
At the heart of this ergonomic breakthrough is the exciting Auto Deceleration System (ADS) available with the Techtronix transmission. ADS is the engine truck equivalent of regenerative braking on electric trucks. It automatically slows the truck when the driver releases the throttle pedal, by engaging the opposite direction selected clutch pack to reduce the travel speed of the truck which can be programmed to suit application and operator requirements.
Operators on the Yale team in Switzerland report that they quickly adapted their driving style to the ADS braking system and welcomed the reduced braking effort required in the intensive lift truck operations required during Euro 2008.
When the final of Euro 2008 is played in Vienna on the 29th of June, The Yale team can take a well earned rest having played its part in building and dismantling 16 of the largest arena sites ever constructed in Switzerland. Champions of Europe? Well that will be Yale!
Yale Europe Materials Handling
Richard Czepukojc
Tel: 01252 770777
Email: info@yale.com
www.yale-europe.com
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