Mai" gypsum Tesco orders 480 Scanias
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deal in Notts
• Nottinghamshire operators could be in the running for a major contract hauling gypsum from the newly commissioned Radcliffe-on-Soar power station.
PowerGen says planning details are expected to be finalised at the end of next month.
This will clear the way for the movement of the gypsum— a byproduct of flue gas desulphurisation—to a nearby wall boarding plant owned by British Gypsum.
7 Last week Derbyshire tippermen lost a chance to tender for the transport of 25,000 tonnes of limestone a year from Buxton to the plant at the Radcliffe-onSoar site—the contract has gone to Trainload Freight.
• Scania has won its biggest ever private order for more than 480 tractor units for supermarket Tesco in a deal worth around £25m. About 80 of the P113MAx2R 320s will be delivered to Tesco's sites in Manchester, the West Midlands and Wales this month. The remaining 400, all replacement units, will be located at Tesco's 18 sites during the next year.
Tesco says it chose the Scanias for their low operational costs.
The units are being plated at 32, 36 or 38 tonnes and are powered by a Scania DSC1121 engine rated at 235kW (315hp). The vehicles have a GR900 ninespeed rangechange gearbox.