The member-owned food retailer organisation is also cutting carbon emissions by 730,000kg per year on the contract operated by DHL Supply Chain.
From its Scunthorpe ambient distribution centre, Nisa is operating 10 of Transdek’s Wedge double-deck trailers – removing 1,300 trunks from its transport network and cutting nearly 820,000km from vehicle routes annually. This equates to saving 273,000 litres of diesel a year.
Lee Vickers, head of logistics at Nisa Retail, says: “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.”
Transdek has also installed four of its five-pallet hydraulic double-deck lifts at Nisa’s 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 they have replaced old dock leveller bays, which were decommissioned and converted to accept fixed-deck deliveries.
Transdek also installed a 12.5-tonne, double-deck modular loadhouse unit at Nisa’s 58,000 sq m Scunthorpe warehouse to support high-volume loading on major trunking runs, along with additional Wedge trailers.
Vickers adds: “The equipment has been very reliable since introduction, which has meant we’ve been able to deliver the targeted savings and, due to this, we’re now looking to introduce more Transdek trailers and lifts into our fleet.”