Whistl announces £12 million investment in fleet

Whistl has introduced a £12 million expense fleet growth and renewal programme that will see it update its fleet above the subsequent twelve months.

The financial investment features Euro VI compliant: I7 Peugeot Boxer 435 Vans 26 18t and 17 26t ridged vehicles and 126 Renault T-Range Tractor Units.

It will also be introducing 115 new trailers, which include 70 new box trailers 30 new curtain trailers that will be XL rated, making certain far better load safety and a more 15 curtain XL rated trailers with tail lifts equipped.

The Peugeot Boxer 435 Vans are on leases that permit Whistl to swap them with electric run replacements when they become available.

The business is also consolidating all the transportation fleet across the group this year below a new transport management process to much better utilise the fleet, maximising hundreds and lessening mileage.

Alistair Cochrane, chief executive of Whistl, reported: “We are continuing to spend in our fleet appropriate across the group which include the companies we have acquired in the very last handful of decades, these kinds of as Parcelhub, It is vital that we make certain that we run proficiently and as environmentally sustainable as achievable our flexible lease contracts on the Boxer Vans mirror this.”

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