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Five new Volvo FH-520’s
with Euro 5 compliant engines have gone into service with SCS Logistics,
the Essex-based supply chain solutions provider.
Meeting its own
environmental targets and those of its blue chip customers, including
Proctor and Gamble, was key to the choice of the Globetrotter XL-cabbed,
6x2 tractor units, whose specification includes leather upholstered
seats, climate-control, CD player and I-Shift automated transmission.
Says SCS Managing
Director Glyn Hockey. “We consulted with our drivers and felt that the
extra cost of the high-spec interior would be justified to prevent
fatigue. We do very little in terms of overnight stops as the vehicles
are double-shifted, working both day and night. The drivers are
delighted with the trucks, especially the I-Shift automated
transmission.”
Glyn Hockey is also
very pleased with the support offered by the supplying Volvo Dealer, MC
Truck and Bus who are maintaining the trucks at their Thurrock depot.
Says Glyn. “The service and support we have received from them has been
second-to-none.”
“The main reason for
the choice of Euro 5 engines was an attempt on our part to jump ahead of
the game in terms of our environmental commitment. We are a main
contractor to Procter & Gamble and join with them in attempting to make
our operation as green as we can.”
Where other operators have been disappointed that tax incentives for the
early adoption of Euro 5, prior to October 2007, have not been
forthcoming, this did not figure in SCS’s calculations. “We are not
naïve enough to expect any kind of tax break which, perhaps cynically,
we feel would be taken back in other ways,” says Glyn.
The D13 engine’s 520
power rating and high cab specification were needed because of the
trucks’ working patterns says Glyn. “These vehicles were purchased to
undertake a different profile of work to that which we would normally
carry out,” he explains. “They were chosen for long distance and the
engines need to be both fuel-efficient and robust to work at maximum
gross weight on long hauls. The Volvo’s met the criteria in every
sense.”
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