Transport and warehousing business Green Group is upgrading its 90-strong fleet with 50 Euro 6 Mercedes-Benz Actros tractor units – one of the manufacturer's largest Euro 6 orders to date.
The Rotherham-based firm will take delivery of the vehicles this year, with the first going into service in March.
Supplied by dealer Northside Truck & Van, all are Actros 2545 tractors with flat-floored BigSpace cabs and straight-six engines, delivering 450bhp via PowerShift 3 automated gearboxes.
Green Group made the decision to move to Euro 6 after successful introducing 30 Euro 5 New Actros 2545 trucks last summer.
"Our Euro 5 New Actros are performing very well and typically returning between 9 and 9.5 mpg fully freighted – which puts them as much as a mile and a half ahead of the vehicles they've replaced," explains Rebecca Wharmsby, Green Group's assistant managing director.
"Given that each unit averages 160,000 miles per year, a fuel saving of that magnitude is worth a lot of money."
The Euro 6 order, she adds, was made primarily for environmental reasons, but also because the vehicles should command strong residual values.
"We like to keep a nice modern fleet, so don't tend to run our vehicles for too long. This should mean there's plenty of demand when ours become some of the first Euro 6 trucks to go on the second-hand market."
