Fife Creamery runs new Actros drawbar

Commercial Motor

December 23, 2008

Chilled food supplier Fife Creamery has put a new Mercedes-Benz Actros drawbar worth £130,000 on the road to cope with the extra work following expansion in northern Scotland.

The truck is double-shifted - local work during the day and trunking at night. Richard Wishart, transport manager at Fife Creamery, explains: "It comes back in at 2am with returns and empty cages, and it is out working again by 5am."

Fife Creamery runs 24 Mercedes trucks, the majority of them 7.5-tonne Ategos. "The 7.5-tonners are on multi-drop work and those working in the centre of Edinburgh make more than 30 deliveries a day.

"It's a tough job but the Mercedes are very reliable - we run them for four years and they don't break down or fall apart.

"The backup from dealer Western Commercial is first-class. Its repair and maintenance contracts are competitively priced, and routine servicing is done at our premises by one of its mobile technicians the system works very well," he says.

The new Actros has a 12-speed Mercedes PowerShift automated transmission and a tandem-axle trailer fitted with Gray & Adams insulated fridge bodies and Dhollandia tail-lifts.

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