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03/09/2010
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In-flight food supplier Royal Blue Executive Services has taken delivery of a new Volvo FL 18-tonner to service its executive jet customers at Heathrow.
 The FL 4x2 rigid truck went on the road on June 1 and is fitted with a scissor-lift refrigerated body and a 360º camera system that allows the truck to manoeuvre safely around large and small aircraft.
Royal Blue director of logistics Simon Carey explains that the driver needs to have a sense of exactly where the truck is "in three dimensions". Colliding with an aircraft wing or fuselage, he says, would be a very costly error.
"The Volvo FL is perfect for this job. As well as servicing aircraft at Heathrow, the truck is trunking to Stansted and Birmingham airports. It is a delight to drive, with a superb gearbox and, with 280hp, it pulls like a train."
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Brian Tinham
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