Volvos get JWT nod
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Nottingham haulier John Williams Transport has added four sleeper-cabbed Volvo Fh17-251}rigids to its fleet and as an alternative to the Globetrotter cab has had them fitted with Hatcher top sleeper pods to give the driver and mate extra space.
The conversion costs £2,000 compared with £2,250 for the optional factory-built Globetrotter cab, provides slightly more space and importantly gives extra privacy, larger lockers and a central entry above the engine cover.
"We compared them both," says John Williams, but privacy was the deciding factor" The 4.0m-high quartet will be deployed on Jifis UK-wide groupage contracts. They are all on 6.0m wheelbases and have Adcliffe Engineers' curtain-sided bodywork. Although the vehicles are built for easy side leading, most of their cargoes are fork-lifted in and out through the rear To keep the mainly crated products in place, the firm has devised its own system of loose poles and straps which are secured into cups fabricated on to a series of bars fitted down each side.
BAR Cargolift taillifts form the rear closure and are controlled by foot and hand buttons.