December 2024 - RMA Special Vehicles – South Africa – Mining Trucks, Ambulances, Security, Police Vehicles

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Underground Mining Vehicles

Revolutionising the Underground Mining Vehicle for Advanced Performance

A specialised underground mining vehicle plays a crucial role in the safe and efficient transportation of personnel, tools, and materials within subterranean mines. These vehicles are specially designed and modified to withstand the harsh conditions in which they operate, ensuring safety, durability, and operational efficiency.

Why Specialised Vehicles Are Necessary

The underground mining environment presents a range of challenges, including poor lighting, confined spaces, and rugged terrain. Standard vehicles are ill-equipped to handle these extreme conditions, making modifications essential. Specialised vehicles, such as the RMA Automotive underground mining vehicle, provide enhanced safety, reliability, and efficiency, ensuring uninterrupted operations while prioritising worker safety.

Key Modifications and Features

RMA Automotive South Africa has engineered an advanced underground mining vehicle based on the Ford Ranger Double Cab 4×4 XLT to meet the demanding needs of underground operations. The following key modifications enhance both functionality and safety:

Emergency Braking System: A Spring Actuated; Hydraulic Release (SAHR) emergency braking system is integrated to provide exceptional braking capability. This system features an emergency stop button that, when activated, immediately cuts the engine and locks the wheels, ensuring rapid immobilisation in emergencies.
Fire Suppression System: An Ansul Automatic Fire Suppression system is installed to rapidly deploy dry fire retardant in case of a fire, preventing potential damage and ensuring compliance with strict mine safety regulations.
Kevlar Floor Protection: The vehicle’s floor is reinforced with 12-layer Kevlar boards to protect against sharp debris commonly found in mining environments, such as steel bolts and rock fragments.
Enhanced Lighting and Electrical System: A dual battery system powers ten strategically positioned spotlights at the front and rear, significantly improving visibility in the dim underground environment, reducing accident risks, and improving operational efficiency.
Customised Mining Package: Additional modifications include side steps for easier access, a wrap-around bull bar for added protection, reflective tape for enhanced visibility, heavy-duty seat covers for durability, a battery isolation switch for safety, and identification boards for regulatory compliance.

About RMA Automotive South Africa

RMA Automotive South Africa is a leading provider of specialised vehicle modifications. With over 15 years of experience and a state-of-the-art facility in Pretoria, we are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge mobility solutions tailored to the unique requirements of the African market.

We have also successfully supplied a fleet of modified vehicles to Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining corporations, meeting their stringent safety and performance standards. These vehicles have contributed to safer and more efficient underground transport operations, with high reliability and minimal downtime.

Contact Us

For more information on our underground mining vehicle modifications and to discuss how we can support your operations, contact RMA Automotive South Africa today.

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Service Vehicle Modification

Workshop on Wheels: Service Vehicle Modification to Keep You Going, No Matter What

Specialised services require specialised tools, and the vehicles that operate in these conditions are no different. RMA Automotive South Africa is the leading provider of special vehicle modifications, fit for the demanding African terrain, and the many businesses that weather these conditions.

We are experts in keeping you mobile – no matter what the function or the conditions – and this includes our specialised service vehicle modification to ensure you can carry on uninterrupted, anywhere, anytime.

What is Service Vehicle Modification?

Breakdowns can happen at any time and place. While never convenient, for those who work in the field, especially in rugged or inaccessible terrains, these breakdowns can lead to significant delays or interruptions.

A modified service vehicle from RMA Automotive South Africa can help you keep your specialised vehicles – and your essential operations – running with menial interruption, no matter what. Designed to assist clients stranded in the field, our Maintenance Service Vehicles provide essential roadside support, whether you need to replace a dead battery, faulty spark plugs, a flat tyre, or anything else that needs attention.

Durable, dependable, and secure, the RMAA South Africa Mobile Service Vehicle is equipped with a specialised “Service” skid that includes storage, batteries, an inverter, lighting, and a compressor, ensuring a comprehensive on-the-go solution for automotive needs.

In short, this purpose-built modification enables unparallelled mobility in vehicle maintenance.

What Other Modification Options Does RMA Automotive South Africa Offer?

In addition to our service vehicle modification, we offer a range of automotive modifications for specialised tasks and terrains, including:

Box body ambulances
Underground mining vehicles
Mine site vehicles
Police canopies
K9 canopies
Staff transporter canopies
Single cab drop-side trays

Why Choose RMA Automotive South Africa?

RMAA South Africa is part of the global RMA Special Vehicles brand – a trusted global designer and manufacturer of a wide range of modified special vehicles for different OEMs and across multiple vehicle categories.

We work meticulously to comply with OEM production processes, which ensures that our modified vehicles retain their OEM warranties.

Because we create mobility solutions targeted specifically for the African region, our services and solutions are provided from our base in Pretoria, South Africa, where our state-of-the-art facilities are perfectly positioned to provide modification services to clients across the continent.

What’s more, we are both QVM and ISO certified and have a Level 4 BEE rating, to ensure further peace of mind to our clients.

Get in Touch

Give your business the leading edge. Contact our team at RMA Automotive South Africa to find out more about our innovative mobility solutions, including our specialised service vehicle modification options.