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TRAILERS
Culina Group has established an exciting
partnership agreement with Stafford
based SOR to provide Specialist Chilled
Trailers to Group companies.
The initial order, for delivery between now
and November, is for forty bespoke trailers,
twenty for Culina Logistics - market leader
in UK chilled shared user logistics, and
twenty for Morgan McLernon - the Group
operation in Northern and Southern
Ireland.
“The relationship between Culina Group
and SOR is in its infancy with this order
being the first of what we hope will be
many,” said Thomas Van Mourik – Culina Group CEO,
“SOR are a Stafford based company with a strong European parent
sowe are getting the best of bothworlds as a customer, a committed
local partner supplier, supported by an international infrastructure
with a powerful pedigree. This is going to be an exciting partnership
for both businesses.”
Each 13.6 metre tri-axle trailer will have BPW drum brakes, sliding
suzie rails, one piece aluminium chequer plate flooring, a rear
compression bar, an SOR heavy duty rear bottom threshold, and
Thermo King SLXi 300-50 refrigeration units.
“It’s really exciting for us to be working closely with Culina Group at
such a dynamic period in the company’s growth,” said Steve Barker
of SOR,
“What our clients have highlighted about SOR Trailers is their
resistance, manoeuvrability and robustness. We are looking
forward to further enhancing the Culina Group service to its own
clients through their operation of our unique high quality trailers”
Established in 1970, and now one of the top trailer manufacturers
in Europe SOR is continually working on new innovations in
refrigeration, using increasingly light materials to improve load
capacity.
Culina Group partner with SOR Trailers
Speedy Hire (Speedy Asset Services) has recently ordered four
tri-axle stepframe curtainsiders from Cartwright following
their requirement for ‘a trailer that could carry anything’.
Cartwright engineers worked closely with Speedy Hire to create
a trailer that was multi-purpose in terms of the products it could
carry.
The company, an existing customer of Cartwright Rentals, will
use the semi-trailers to carry a variety of products from rolling
equipment such as large generators and compressors, to medium
sized plant equipment including lawn mowers, lighting systems
and tools for hire.
It is Speedy Hire’s first new build order from Cartwright.
Special features in the design of the curtainsiders for Speedy Hire
include twist locks and lashing rings in the floor to enable the
trailers to carry odd shaped products such as large containers or
cages. Also included is a five-tonne winch and internal rear lifting
ramp, and rear hydraulic ramps as well as an anti-fall facility with
internal beams to prevent employees falling.
Speedy Hire is the UK’s leading hire provider offering a huge range
of tools, plant and specialist hire equipment. It is also a provider
of equipment, rental and support services to clients across the
construction, infrastructure, industrial, manufacturing, facilities
management, retail, leisure and events sectors, as well as to local
trades and industry.
Mark Woodworth, Head of Transport and Logistics for Speedy
Services, commented: “We wanted to find a trailer that could
quickly and safely secure load in the back but also carry anything
which was key as we have so many different assets in our fleet.
This multi-purpose trailer from Cartwright meets our needs for the
future.”
Speedy Hire orders four curtainsiders fromCartwright
to create a multi purpose delivery solution