The truck was created to allow for business owners and their employees to be able to provide highly efficient Hydrovac services within the constraints of the law. The current common truck offerings in many cases, does not allow for this to be the case. The large industrial units are built to legally haul a load of fresh water to a job site and dispose of the created hydrovac spoils on that location. In the initial growth of the industry this was reasonably common as many of the jobs were on pipeline right of ways or inside of industrial facilities. In the current environment, most applications occur inside of cities and towns and therefore the offloading of spoils onsite is not realistic.
Due to this fact, an industrial truck currently must either operate well over weight capacity while travelling to offload, or travel with partial loads. Either case is not efficient and adds much risk to an operation. Rival’s philosophy is to right size the unit to maximize payload, but do not sacrifice productivity.
To accomplish this Rival started from a blank slate and evaluated each working component of the design. Vacuum and water systems and tank capacities were the main focal points. We wanted to eliminate any unnecessary items and maximize legal capacities without sacrificing the amount of work that can be performed. We feel as though we found a sweet spot.
The enforcement of truck weights will continue to grow as more of these trucks are seen on the road. In the cities where the Hydrovac industry is most mature is where the enforcement is most aggressive.
Our first to market with a compliant unit was the main driver in allowing Rival to grow quickly and become the first choice in its’ category for contractors and service companies primarily working in cities and towns.