Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) and its official dealer, CMD, have supplied six EH3500ACII rigid dump trucks to a phosphate mine in Israel. The order by Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd represented the largest sale of mobile plant equipment in the country?s history.

The trucks are used to remove overburden, and haul the phosphate to storage areas, the crusher and processing plant at the mine. ?The trucks are scheduled to complete 6,400 working hours a year, doing three shifts per day, working in ambient temperatures exceeding 40?C,? explains HCME Manager of Heavy Equipment Sales Malcolm Edwards.

Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd ordered the new models from Hitachi to update its fleet of Euclid trucks, three of which began working in 1986 and had more than 100,000 working hours. HCME and CMD provided training for 90 operators, who will keep the trucks moving 24/7.