"To the small business, minutes are money.
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Ecosplit delivers the savings"
"When you've only got eight hours, every minute is valuable", says Peter Gardner— Director of Safegard Storage, with his brother David.
"Especially when we're running over the Pennines, pulling toilet tissues into Yorkshire, then running fertiliser back from Billingham to three Lancashire storage depots:" That's why you bought the M.A.N. 361 last September?
"Certainly Destroyer II is the star performer over the hills. But you need the right box as well as the power, which is where ZF's Ecosplit scores. It's an eight speed splitter box, with just the right ratios to cut travel time:' Can you quote examples?
"Well, anybody who knows this route, will know that going up over Bowes Moor from Lancashire to the North East in two hours empty and back in two hours fifteen minutes full, is really good trucking. And one time, on a motorway route, Timothy — that's David's son, the driver— did 418 miles in seven hours five minutes and averaged 8.53 mpg:' He likes the Ecosplit box, then? "You could say that! Mind, he found it a bit different at first. But now he's convinced by it. Sc) are we:' Our second 361 with Feesplit will be coming around August': You'll be hearing a lot more about ZF EcospIits on the UK's big, high mileage trucks. The Ecosplits advanced design gives a long trouble free working life on trucks of 32 tonnes and upwards.
No wonder so many drivers and operators have nothing but good words for them.