New life for trailers
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DAVENPORTS Brewery Ltd, of Birmingham is refurbishing 11year-old semi-trailers fitted with Boalloy Tautliner bodies at a cost of £700 each, in a bid to avoid the capital cost of purchasing new trailers.
This will be the third lease of life for Davenports Highway and Brockhouse trailers, which started life with platform bodies. Eight years ago they were fitted with Tautliner curtain-sided bodies and apart from the normal periodic maintenance, the trailers have remained unchanged until now.
According to Boalloy, the present economic climate made early replacement unlikely, so as each trailer becomes due for its annual test, it is being refurbished.
The running gear is overhauled or replaced, and Tautliner curtains are being fitted. Two Tautliners are already back on the road, out of a ( total of six in the programme.
The trailers are used for trunking bulk supplies of beer to the ten distribution depots in the brewery's Beer at Home service chain. Stock is trunked to depots north and south and two round trips can be fitted into one working day on some of the shorter runs.