Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has taken delivery of six Volvo FE low entry cab trucks for refuse collection.
"The new trucks are going extremely well and I am very pleased with their performance and reliability," comments Rotherham fleet manager, Craig Simpson. "We have 12 Volvos on our gritting fleet and a number in other applications, so we already know that the Volvo is a quality product."
Simpson says drivers are impressed, too. "They say that the Volvo FE is a superior truck and a real step up from the previous vehicles on the fleet," he states.
The new 23-tonners have been acquired by Translinc, on a contract hire agreement, and the organisation will also be providing the maintenance support.
All the vehicles have been fitted with a Terberg specialist body for segregated recycled waste, and they join Rotherham's domestic recycling fleet of more than 200 vehicles, already collecting glass, textiles, paper and tin.
