Sand … the romantic imagery of the Arabian Peninsula has as its cornerstone the stark beauty of the desert. Who has not stood in wonder at the panorama of the rolling dunes beneath a star-bedecked sky? But sand on the bustling roads and highways of the Gulf can be dangerous. Drifting sand can stop a speeding car dead, with terrible consequences for the occupants; and sand drifts can accumulate quickly - the Highway Authorities need to be vigilant and to have the correct tools to deal with this phenomenon.


The Broddway Senior is the sweeper for this job.The Senior is a sweeper like no other. Designed and built in Sweden for more than 30 years by Broddway (a member of the Schmidt Group), the Senior is now produced in Poland and hundreds of them have been sold in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia.

The Senior does not have its own hopper - when you realise that this sweeper will shift more than one tonne of sand per minute, you will readily appreciate that an integral hopper would be an impossibility. Therefore it needs a tipper truck in which to deposit the sand and, thanks to its ingenious and cost effective design, the truck that receives the load also tows the Senior.
Quickly coupled and uncoupled, the Senior can keep three or more trucks busy on a rotating basis in heavy sweeping conditions; with its enormous appetite, it will eat into heavy deposits of sand, leaving behind ….. nothing at all.

Moreover, with 1,100 litres of water on board, the operator can control the amount of water he puts down, thereby ensuring the sand is swept onto the conveyor and not allowed to swirl up into the air.
Because it is a two-wheeled machine, the Senior has no problem following kerb contours and skirting obstacles like parked cars, and reversing manoeuvres are made easy.

Built to exacting, unmatchable Swedish standards, the Senior is incredibly tough, providing its owner with years of trouble-free and economic service long after other sweepers have given up the ghost and lie rusting in the scrap yard.

The camel may navigate the desert, but only the Broddway Senior can sweep it!