InfraStructures - September 2012 - Rotary Lift MOD30 Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Rotary Lift MOD30 Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Rotary Lift’s popular MOD30 modular environment-friendly inground lift celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012.
Although heavy-duty inground lifts had been the preferred choice of truck and bus maintenance facilities for decades, increasing environmental and safety concerns in the 1990s led many service managers to install surface lifts instead. When Rotary Lift introduced the MOD30 modular inground lift in 2002, it changed the industry.

“The MOD30 virtually eliminated customers’ environmental and safety concerns, while at the same time providing unique productivity-enhancing features like our patented Universal Saddle Adapter, joystick controls and auto spotting system,” says Doug Spiller, Rotary Lift heavy duty product manager. “As a result, the MOD30 has been a top seller, with more than 1,000 installed in customer locations around the world over the last 10 years.”

Through the years, Rotary Lift has continuously improved the MOD30 inground lift so it provides maximum versatility to lift heavy-duty vehicles with the latest design features, including low-floor and kneeling buses and trucks with aerodynamic fairings and new emissions equipment.

The MOD30 inground lift provides greater and faster access to more service areas on a vehicle than any other heavy-duty lift. It uses half the hydraulic fluid of traditional inground lifts, and the entire system is contained in an enclosure that’s coated inside and out with Rotary Lift’s exclusive EnviroGuard™ coating, a 6 mm thick polyurethane sealant that protects against electrolysis and harsh contaminants for the 30-year life of the lift. Only the MOD30 meets the environmental standards of underground storage tanks (USTs), including lead detection, fluid monitoring, fluid extraction and an alarm system.

To alleviate safety concerns, the MOD30 comes with galvanized shutter plate trench covers that automatically move to keep the pit covered at all times. The lift’s VEC™ (Variable Equalized Control) system raises both jacks simultaneously for level lifting, instead of “stair-stepping” a vehicle by first raising one end, then the other.

Source: Rotary Lift