InfraStructures - October 2010 - The THW Relies on Emergency Service Vehicles from Mercedes-Benz

The THW Relies on Emergency Service Vehicles from Mercedes-Benz

The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Technisches Hilfswerk, or THW) is to get new emergency service vehicles from Mercedes-Benz as part of an extensive procurement programme.

Several new vehicles were handed over to the THW in a symbolic gesture at Interschutz 2010, the leading international exhibition for fire prevention and disaster relief.

The vehicle, known as the MLW V in the trade, is based on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. The vehicle has five seats for crew members and a load compartment which is accessible through the rear doors. It has been equipped with a Sortimo shelving system and allows the safe storage of each technical unit’s specific loads. Folding shelves with tie-down hooks and floor-mounted securing rails enable loads to be secured perfectly.

The rear doors, which open out to 270°, make loading with a fork-lift truck possible. Alternatively, using two drive-on ramps which are stored on the inside of one of the rear doors, rollboys or a mobile workbench can be loaded, too.
It is intended to put the MLW V into service for the infrastructure, logistics, blasting and drinking-water technical units of the THW. The first MLW V vehicle is being taken into service by the Bautzen (Saxony) section of the THW and will be used there by the blasting technical unit.

Source: Daimler AG