Urbanloada for fast turnround service
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TO CUT delivery time in busy high streets to a minimum. Edinburgh-based food supplier, Real Foods, has had its latest distribution vehicle fitted with quick-access Urbanloada bodywork by Southfields Coachworks.
The Urbanloada bodywork has captive load-bearing side curtains. The driver simply has to unfasten the sliding pillar at one end or the other to gain access to the load.
Special measures have been taken to allow mixed and loose cargoes to be loaded right out to the full body width. Internal cargo nets are suspended from tracking about 3ft (915mm) inside the curtains.
Rather than offering conventional D-ring lashing points set into the floor, Southfields has fitted purpose-made tie bars to the cant rail, just above the bottom curtain track. Hooks at the
bottom of the cargo nets can be secured to these bars, where they pass outside even fullwidth pallets. The Urbanloada has a central row of restraint webbing as well as the side restraints. This, it is claimed, gives the maximum flexibility in securing part-loads. It also means that as the load diminishes during a delivery run, the driver can secure different parts of it separately.