Bunzl Catering Supplies, supplier of non-food consumables to the catering and hospitality sector, has appointed Prohire to supply and manage its 110-strong fleet of delivery vehicles operating from seven branches and a national distribution centre.
Finance & Leasing
Staffordshire-based Hawkins Logistics has put three new Volvo FH-500 tractor units into service, with different powertrain options which the operator is testing for performance and fuel economy.
Engine/Transmission Management
Waste management business Biffa has deployed ten new Isuzu 3.5-tonne Grafter Green trucks on the streets of London and Manchester this summer, working in the operator’s industrial and municipal fleets.
Rigids
VMS Fleet Management is taking delivery of 37 Isuzu dual-compartment refrigerated 7.5-tonne rigids for its rental division, VMS Vehicle Hire, in a deal said to be worth over £2 million.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
SB Components, Priden Engineering and McPhee Mixers are collaborating under a new umbrella group to provide engineering solutions to the commercial and industrial vehicle sector.
Concrete Mixers
Hampshire-based John Stacey & Sons has specified Thompsons Loadmaster bodies with AutoLift tailgates for all eight of its recent tipper fleet additions.
Tippers
CML Fulfilment & Logistics, a division of the Culina Group, has taken delivery of 20 of Carrier Transicold’s latest trailer refrigeration unit, the Vector HE 19.
Temperature Controlled Vehicles
Essex County Council has taken delivery of a low-floor Strata bus, from Mellor, describing it as “the perfect addition” for its ongoing fleet upgrade programme.
Bus & Coach
Ryder, Nexus Vehicle Rental and Enterprise Rent-A-Car are among eleven organisations that are approved suppliers for vehicle hire solutions from the government’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS).
Finance & Leasing
Mercedes-Benz Vans is including driver monitoring software as standard, for three years, on all new Sprinter and Vito Tourer models.
Telematics
Morayshire-based Limehillock Quarries has taken delivery of a Volvo FH16-750 8x4 tractor to move mobile crushers and screening plant between its seven sites in northern Scotland.
Tractor Units
Heavy machinery moving business Joseph Merritt Group has acquired a new Nooteboom trailer to transport its fleet of forklift trucks.
Semi-Trailers