EEG chooses 5-tonne Sprinters for jetting and cleansing work 12 August 2013

Drain maintenance specialist EEG has acquired 17 new 5-tonne Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 513 CDI chassis cabs.

The vehicles are all powered by the German manufacturer's new, cleaner 129bhp engine, and have been fitted with bespoke bodies with water tank, jetting and suction equipment by Dutch company Rioned.

"We've been relying on Sprinters since 2002 and although they rack up some very high mileages, only very rarely does one suffer a problem," comments EEG fleet manager Douglas Stewart.

"You can't buy that sort of reliability anywhere other than Mercedes-Benz," he adds.

EEG also runs a fleet of more than 300 trucks – a combination of 26- and 32-tonners – which carry jet-vac equipment and work on various contracts for the major utilities.

"Mercedes-Benz enjoys a large share of our truck line-up too, including our last 20 chassis, thanks to an unbeatable combination of price, reliability and residual value," states Stewart.

This time, though, the company required a fleet of smaller vehicles capable of doing the same job on domestic properties where there's much less room to manoeuvre.

"We needed more manageable vehicles that combined a smaller footprint with a sufficiently high payload to carry the necessary equipment," says Stewart. "The 5-tonne Sprinter was the perfect solution."

The Mercedes-Benz chassis cabs were supplied by Western Commercial.

Author
John Challen

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