Allison Transmission provides enormous advantage for water tender serving brown open cast coal mining site
German fire brigade specifies Iveco Trakker construction vehicle with fire-fighting bodywork and an Allison transmission to overcome slippery, dark driving conditions on ever-changing terrainGrevenbroich, Germany – The brown coal open cast mining site in Grevenbroich, near Cologne is a 48 km² hilly landscape littered with monstrous bucket wheel excavators, a 100 km belt conveyer system and mostly gravelled or unpaved access routes. RWE Power AG runs the mine and produces around 100 million tons of brown coal per year for the surrounding power plants. Serving the site with the requirement to