de-icing: remove snow and ice from HGVs’ roofs

Remove snow and ice from HGVs’ roofs.

Where: truck park Sadobre in Campo di Trens (Vipiteno)

Functioning: it is an automatic system using three different gates. The first one breaks snow and ice with propellers, while turbines throw snow drifts ten meters away. The second one removes the remaining layer of snow or ice through high-pressure hot water jets without damaging the vehicles surface. The third one dries the vehicle surface through an air knife to prevent the formation of new ice

Operativeness: simply press a button and move forward with the vehicle at a maximum speed of 5-7 km/h

Maximum height of the vehicle: 4 metres.