Road Milling & Sweeping recently purchased a new recycler to add to its fleet of milling machines.
Changing market
lane of traffic, enabling them to return to
their correct position on the road.
Across the globe, studies have shown that
milled rumble strips can make a significant
difference to road safety, while also costing
significantly less than other safety measures.
One such study, conducted by the Swedish
Road and Transport Research Institute
(VTI), showed that placing milled rumble
strips at the centre of a two-lane road was
an excellent way to reduce the number of
head-on collisions occurring due to tired
and inattentive drivers inadvertently leaving
their lane. The study also showed that these
centreline milled rumble strips resulted in
drivers reducing their speed and staying
away from the centre of the road.
Kafka says that RMS has seen a big shift
in the need for equipment by smaller
businesses. “We have had many more
smaller companies approaching us to hire
machines in the past two years than we did
previously, when it was a lot more focused
on your typical big civil engineering groups
and big construction companies, which
monopolised the market.”
She adds that one of the challenges they
are facing given the changing market,
Wirtgen undertakes services for all
machines under warranty, after which
RMS carries out all services at its in-house
workshop. In addition to the initial training
provided when a new machine is purchased,
RMS trains all of its operators in-house,
Manganyi explains. Having started out as
a security guard before rising through the
ranks to his current position, Manganyi is
particularly aware of the difference that
proper training can make.
“We train our operators here at our offices,
and then we take them out to site, where they
will be paired with a more experienced person
to give them the opportunity to learn as much
as possible. Usually, within a week, operators
will be comfortable enough to run a machine
themselves,” he adds.
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Maintenance and training
Milled rumble strips help to improve driver safety.