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Rokbak built to keep earth moving Juanita Pienaar spoke with Rokbak senior product manager Scott Pollock about how the articulated hauler specialist designs for durability, maximises uptime, and supports customers operating in some of the world’s toughest conditions.
long-term customer partnerships. According to Scott Pollock, senior product manager at Rokbak, the
conversation around uptime must begin long before a truck ever turns a wheel on site. “Uptime starts with meeting the customer’s requirements for high- production environments,” he explains. “Rokbak trucks are designed, tested, and manufactured to meet those expectations.” That emphasis on purpose-built design underpins the brand’s approach, but Pollock is quick to stress that even the most robust machine cannot operate in isolation. “What I always try to stress is that a truck is only as productive as the care it receives,” he says. “That’s why aftermarket preparation, maintenance planning, and correct operation are all critical.” This whole-life mindset, from specification and manufacturing through to daily operation and long- term maintenance, is central to how Rokbak positions its RA30 and RA40 articulated haulers in demanding applications worldwide. Designing for reliability, not recovery At the core of Rokbak’s uptime strategy is a focus on preventing problems rather than reacting to them. Structurally, the trucks are designed for the duty cycles they are expected to endure, with robustness validated through extensive
What I always try to stress is that a truck is only as productive as the care it receives. That’s why aftermarket preparation, maintenance planning, and correct operation are all critical.
Rokbak Senior Product Manager, Scott Pollock,
I n high-production mining, quar- rying, and construction environ- ments, downtime is expensive. Ev- ery unplanned stop ripples through an operation, affecting productivity, costs, and project timelines. Rokbak,
a manufacturer of articulated haulers headquartered in Motherwell, Scot- land, treats uptime not as a single design metric, but as the outcome of an integrated philosophy that spans engineering, support, digital tools, and
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