Skanska UK has announced plans to ban all semi-automatic and automatic quick hitches from its UK sites by 1 November. Semi-automatic quick hitches have been linked to several fatal accidents in the UK ...

The UK's Strategic Forum for Construction has produced a Best Practice Guide covering the safe use of quick hitches on hydraulic excavators, published by the ...

Stan Roberts of Glan Conwy in North Wales has early prototypes of his ‘Stan Hitch’ or standardised hitch system in operation on his and local test farms for much of the past decade having begun plans ...