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sion prevention due to high-quality coating with
galvanizing and powder coating."
And DOLL offers several options for their
trucks, as well, including a reverse camera, additional working light and the company's latest
safety feature, the DOLL SAS Safety Approach
System.
"It is a camera system that detects an aircraft, evaluates the distance between it and the
aircraft and automatically brakes the truck at
0.5 m from the aircraft. This allows us to be
in perfect compliance with the IATA AHM913
'no-touch policy' standard. Almost all options
are possible, and we are sometimes acting like
a 'tailor-made' truck provider," says Luchner.

For aircraft height, Timsan manufactures
their trucks to meet several ranges.
"Aircraft sill heights vary from 1 m to 8.4 m.
This range is said to be too long for a catering
vehicle mounted on a commercial truck. If an
A380 is considered, a specially designed cater-

ing truck is required. These reasons force us
to design several types of catering trucks that
meet this range. From 1.3 m to 6 m a half cab
catering truck, from 2.5 m to 6 m full cab catering truck, and only for the A380, a specially
designed truck must be used," Kaya says.

Timsan
At Timsan, Uluğ Kaya, mechanical engineer
and design center manager, says all their
catering trucks are made to their customer's
requirements and specifications.
"We divide our products into two, as lower
deck and upper deck catering trucks and are
named according to the max service height.
But at Timsan, we do our best to meet our
customer's requirements with tailor-made
understanding," Kaya describes.
The custom nature of Timsan's trucks
leads Kaya to offer the following advice for
purchasing.
"Firstly, the aircraft types have the most
effective role to configure the type and
capacity of the unit. Secondly, trolley capacity, which is also determined by the aircraft
and airport size, also has a key role. These
two features are also used to determine the
truck brand and capacity. After these two
main features, environmental condition is
also important to verify the insulation and
cooling unit. And finally, the tail lift necessity
is important according to customer facility.
If these four features are agreed, the rest of
the features like four-way-platform, half cab
four-way-platform, pneumatic sliding doors,
side door, stainless steel shelves, pneumatic
controlled trolley fixing mechanism, different types of cooling unit, tail lift, canopy for
platform, access bridge, electric emergency
pump, Can-Open PLC system, proportional
hydraulic system, some safety features like
cameras, anti-collision sensors front platform type, front and rear door type or shelves
inside the van body are all optional features
we can provide for our customers," says Kaya.

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