Millers chooses Gray & Adams for meat-railers 05 July 2013

Highlands meat supplier Millers of Speyside is still specifying Gray & Adams bodies for its transport requirements – making the point that when beef cuts weigh 75kg and are suspended on roof hooks, you need to know the truck can take it.

Millers runs three 26-tonne trucks and a 7.5-tonner, all of which have heavily reinforced, temperature-controlled bodies from Gray & Adams.

Millers general manager Duncan Reid points to his latest 'meat-railer', which is based on a DAF FAS CF75.310 6x2 rigid chassis, supplied by Norscot Truck & Van Aberdeen.

The truck has a Carrier Supra 850 single-temperature (chilled or frozen) refrigeration unit and five Furgocar meat rails, with hooks running the length of the 8.4m-long body.

"We've been running vehicles with Gray & Adams bodies for at least 15 years now, and they've never let us down," says Reid.

"With heavy carcasses swinging from the rails it's important that the side walls, bulkhead, floor and roof of the body are sufficiently reinforced, so they don't bend or worse," he continues.

"Gray & Adams clearly know their business, because we've never had an issue with one of their bodies," he confirms.

"The build quality is always first class and the same is true of their after sales service, while it's also a pleasure to be doing business with another local company."

Author
Brian Tinham

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