City Link invest in one of UK’s biggest ever trailer orders
City Link has completed one of the UK’s largest ever trailer orders in a GBP 23 million investment programme.
The order for 140 trailers and box trailers has been placed with trailer manufacturer Gray and Adams, supplied through Fraikin and Ryder under contract hire agreements.
The 13.6m trailers have an interior height of 2.06m on the upper deck and 1.9m on the lower deck: 2m-deep powered loading ramps form the lower rear closure with double rear doors forming the upper closure.
An interior two-tonne tail-life is housed within the rear doors.
The deal includes servicing and maintenance as well as tyres and breakdown support. City Link has also recently ordered 45 new Renault and DAF trucks through Fraikin and will repeat the same order in 2008.
Stuart Godman, Sales and Marketing Director of City Link commented: “Our purchase of new trucks and trailers is an integral part of our investment programme in order to provide our customers with the most efficient and up to date equipment for their delivery requirements.
“As a business, we are customer centric and our policy is to plough our profits back into even greater value added quality service.”
Mo Kafu, Operations Director at City Link says: “Target Express (which was bought by City Link last year) operated with curtainsiders and forklift trucks, and while some of these are being kept to handle non-cageable items this latest delivery sees us move the majority of the fleet to our proven double-deck trailer specification.”
