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VOLVO F86 eight-wheelers with 5,000gal petroleum spirit tanks and an F86-hauled drawbar outfit have been put into service by Chevron Oil (UK) Ltd.
The eight-wheelers will distribute to service stations, industry and public utilities from the Kingsbury, Warwickshire, depot, while the drawbar outfit will carry lubricating oils from Chevron's Knutsford, Cheshire, warehouse.
The latter outfit will be used as a combination to deliver bulk consignments of mixed grade oils for marine use and, as a rigid vehicle solo, to make smaller deliveries to customers' premises with restricted access. The vehicle is intended to do the work which previously required two or more separate tankers.
The tanks on the eightwheelers were built by Clarke Chapman-John Thompson of Durham; and the tanks on the drawbar outfits by Fergusson of Portsmouth, with Dyson running gear. Hydraulic pumping equipment is by Drum Engineering.
Mr Ted Reay, operations assistant, of Chevron, told CM that Chevron had been using a Volvo rigid to deliver where access is a problem, and spot hiring a 32-ton semi-artic for larger deliveries.
Now spot hiring was eliminated because they just attached a trailer when larger deliveries were necessary. The new system was already justifying itself after six weeks' use; it proved particularly useful where jetty weight restrictions were in force because the trailer could be uncoupled in these circumstances for conversion to a rigid. A trailer was used for about 30 per cent of the time.