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Suttons Group struck an £800,000 deal with trailer and body manufacturer Dennison for new trailers and the refurbishment of rolling stock. The deal sees 35 slope-frame ISO skeletal trailers enter the fleet in September to move tank containers between ports and railheads, as well as to make customer deliveries, and the refurbishment of 55 trailers already on the fleet.
This comes 12 months after a £7.2m deal for 85 new tractor units and 12 new food-grade bulk-tipping Feldbinder tanks, and two years after a £3.2m deal on 200 26,000-litre baffled tanks and 20 24,000-litre high-insulation tanks.
Tony Leighton, MD of the road tank division, says further deals will take place later this year. He is mindful of the Euro-6 deadline (31 December 2013) and expects Suttons’ procurement programme to make the most of Euro-5 availability in the next 18 months.
He is looking to strike a deal for 60 new tractor units and make another deal for 15 new trailers. The company has 300 tractors and more than 430 trailers.
Leighton is also keen on product development and helped devise a lightweight two-axle GRW-built urban petroleum trailer for deliveries into industrial and commercial sites. “We have one at the moment but there could be 10 more, we are talking to a customer about increasing that,” he says.