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June/July 2017 Truck and Track 33
CONTRACTS & ORDERS – HIGHLIGHTS
Transdek UK has supplied a customised package of double-
deck trailers and loading systems for Nisa Retail that will save
over £400,000 a year and slash CO2 emissions by more than
730,000 kg per annum, on a contract that is operated by DHL
Supply Chain. Nisa is a member-owned organisation, serving
independent food retailers across the UK and Ireland. The
group represents over 1,300 registered shareholders operating
more than 3,000 stores.
Nisa’s network despatches over 2.7 million cases per week across
the UK, Republic of Ireland, Scottish Islands, Isle of Man, Isle of
Wight and Channel Islands. Nisa operates one large ambient
picking warehouse in Scunthorpe, along with three temperature-
controlled picking depots at Livingston, Stoke and Harlow. These
sites are supported by seven outbase locations.
From its Scunthorpe ambient distribution centre, Nisa has started
operating ten of Transdek’s Wedge double-deck trailers, which
have enabled the group to remove 1,300 trunks from its transport
network and cut nearly 820,000 km from
vehicle routes annually. This equates to
saving approximately 273,000 litres of
diesel a year.
Lee Vickers –Head of Logistics at Nisa Retail
explained to Truck and Track: “We distribute
substantial ambient volumes into the
South of the country from Scunthorpe, and
the introduction of Transdek trailers has
allowed us to reduce the primary transport
profile by circa 25 trunks per week by using
the additional floor space and weight
capacity more effectively.”
In addition to the Wedge trailers, Transdek
has installed four of its five-pallet, hydraulic double-deck lifts at
Nisa distribution centres.
The new surface-mounted lifts feature a bi-fold bridge plate
designed to enable safer and easier access to the rear doors of
trailers after docking, and replaced old dock leveller bays, which
weredecommissionedandconverted toacceptfixeddeckdeliveries.
Following on from the success of the new lifts, Transdek also
installed a 12.5t double-deck modular loadhouse unit at Nisa’s
Scunthorpewarehouse to specifically support high-volume loading
on major trunking runs along with additional Wedge trailers.
As part of a strategy to embrace cutting-edge supply chain
improvements to underpin the expansion of its independent retail
network, Nisa de-fleeted ten powered double-deck vehicles to
accommodate Transdek’s fixed double-deck solution.
Transdek double-deck solution for Nisa Retail
Onsite hydraulic hose repairers Hydraquip like the Mercedes-
Benz Sprinter so much that they has commissioned no fewer
than 100 over the last three years. The company was founded
in Crawley, West Sussex, and now has a network of 25 depots
stretching fromAberdeen to Exeter. It runs 160 vehicles, 105 of
themMercedes-Benz Sprinters kittedout asmobileworkshops.
All but five have been delivered since 2014, with the latest taking to
the road in the last few weeks and a further 20 scheduled to enter
service before the end of the year.
The medium-length vans are assigned to service engineers
who provide a 24-hour, national call-out service, undertaking
onsite repairs to hydraulic hoses, typically on civil engineering,
construction and quarrying plant, railway rolling stock and FLTs.
A combination of Sprinter 313 CDIs and, over the last three years,
Euro VI-engined 314 CDIs have been supplied by Sussex and Surrey
dealers Rossetts Commercials. Rossetts get the vans fitted with
storage systems for spare parts, tools and equipment by van racking
specialist Bott from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics.
Founded by Duncan MacBain in 1989, Hydraquip started out with
a staff of three, but now employs more than 300 people, who work
from 25 locations nationwide. This progressive company is still
actively expanding – its target is to have 200 service vans on the
road by 2020.
Hydraquiphas developedabespokeapp, believed tobe thefirst in its
industry, which its engineers use to provide detailed updates about
any callout to the customer in real time via their smartphones.
Sprinter CDIs just the job as mobile workshops
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